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TheSam

2020-01-20 20:37:11 - last edited 2020-01-21 07:49:20

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Need help with placement

2020-01-20 20:37:11 - last edited 2020-01-21 07:49:20

Model: Deco E4

Hardware Version: V3

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Hey there,

Would apreciate any help in placing my deco. Just bought them to try and boost my 250mbps service, as with powerline this drops ridiculously to 50mbps only.

I have my router/modem near my tv in the living room. I wanted to place my 1st slave in the main bedroom and 2ns slave on my desk in my "office". However, 1 & 2 dont seem to connect to the main due to the distance and possibly the walls. Attached is a small and rough (very rough) diagram of my apartment layout.I was think of placing my main further away from any interfering signals such as the tv and erhaps the 1st slave in the kitchen, hopefully then being able to reach my 2nd on the office desk.

Also, when i succesfully managed to set up the main, speed went down from 250 to 90, and this directly connected. Any ideas here?

Many thanks in advance

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Kevin_Z

2020-01-21 02:04:33 - last edited 2020-01-21 07:49:20

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2020-01-21 02:04:33 - last edited 2020-01-21 07:49:20

@TheSam

Hello, what is the distance between the Deco units? Per you said, due to the distance and walls, the signal strength obtained by slave Decos may not be good enough.

You can try to move them closer to each other;

Regarding to the speed issue, the Deco E4 has the 100Mbps LAN ports, that is why the speed slows down to 90Mbps. You can exchange another Deco product that supports gigabit LAN port, like Deco M4, Deco m5.

https://www.tp-link.com/support/download/deco-e4/#specifications

HARDWARE FEATURES
Ports	2 10/100Mbps, WAN/LAN Ports, 1 Power Port

May it help.

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