@Hermano,

Alright so ill do my best to give some info that might help.

Your Deco needs to be in AP mode if there is another wifi router on the network. Is your modem from your provider capable of providing a wifi connection? If so, the reason the devices don't work in router mode is that your network has conflicting settings when there is more than one router on the network. If all of your Decos are in AP mode, there has to be another device acting as a DHCP server somewhere on your network.

It is recommended that the order of networking devices be Modem > Router > Switch as the IP addresses cannot be assigned by the Decos and would be assigned by the Modem/Router. You should have more configuration options on a router than you do on a switch. As such, the lower speeds could most likely be resolved by changing a few settings. Were you given any clues as to why it couldn't be used as a router at full speeds?

Switching to a more powerful deco will definitely allow for more bandwidth and stability as there have been so many developments that allow devices to communicate more efficiently. However, I haven't heard of anything about the processor limiting the speeds before.

If you turn one of the Deco's into a router, you will have to move one of your switches to after the deco, as the Deco will not assign IP addresses through the WAN port and up the stream into the devices connected to the first switch.

  @Hermano,

Ah, Verizon. If you are using their TV systems, you will unfortunately always have to use the router provided by Verizon as the Main Router. Fun fact, that router broadcasts a hidden SSID that is used for your TVs so that it won't disrupt other devices.

So something about the speed test in the deco app. This speed test operates the same as if you were to use any other speed test on your phone. The test is calculated off on the wireless signals and not the speed at the router. This means that you would not be achieving the full speeds due to normal factors such as the environment and other traffic on the network. With every wireless connection, there is also going to be a drop in speeds as a result of the information that has to be sent with each packet of data. When testing your original router, were the results from an app provided by your ISP? If so, you may have been receiving the speeds at the modem, rather than your device.

Also, since your switch is placed between your router and deco nodes, your Verizon Router, is probably trying to reserve some bandwidth for the other nodes on the network as a new device would not be able to connect to the network if there was no additional bandwidth available.

On your notebook, you can navigate to your network adapter settings and see what the "Link Speed" is listed as, this is the maximum speed that could possibly go through that connection, however, you will not be able to achieve these speeds, as they are simply based off the hardware and not anything else, such as the actual bandwidth.