@Libertized  same here, I wrote to tech support today asking the same question, nothing yet, I am going to let you know if get some back.   Their literature is a bit confusing about this topic, it would say you may add any deco sayelitte ?only? for a mesh network, but i have read about Omada range extenders/ap for outdoors and recently on tp-link website it shown up two extenders for a be11000 wifi 7, RE655be and RE235BE, which, for me, made it a bit more confuse to unsertand if there is a better option to extend the network without losing its orginal features. 

  @David-TP  got it, thank you. 

David-TP wrote

  @Libertized 

Hi, welcome to the community.

can I add the X25 or the AXE5300 on to the BE11000 mesh network? 

- Do you refer to Deco X25 or Deco XE5300?

Both would work well with Deco BE11000 and Deco XE5300 is better since it also supports 6GHz band. The satellite Deco usually will not affect the network performance of main Deco so it would be more like "BE1000 is faster in the house and the X25 or AXE5300 just be slower in the garage". 

 

 

@AFST 

Hi, Thanks for the feedback. If you are currently using a Deco as your primary router, it is recommended to stick with Deco products when expanding your network with additional extenders. The range extenders like RE655be and RE235BE seem to be quite similar to satellite Deco Mesh, but they can't be configured/managed via Deco APP. Deco doesn't support EasyMesh either. Some software features will also be lost, for example, RE655be and RE235BE could only extend the main network(2.4+5+6GHz) of the host router. If you have guest network enabled on the main Deco BE11000, you can't have it extended on the range extenders, neither did the IOT network.

 

Thank you very much and best regards.

Got it. Thank you.! 

  @David-TP  mine are 20-30 meters apart, protected from the elements, I am going to give a try on running three cat5e cables from a 5 ports unmanaged PoE switch inside of the main house and using the TP-Link Deco AX3000 PoE Mesh WiFi(Deco X50-PoE) to the place (garages, barn..etc) at each cable end given to the 2.5 port in it.  How does it sound to you.? 
 

thanks in advance. 

  @David-TP  Thanks.  Just did it... it is working great, easy setup, the mlo is not being propagated (wifi6-wifi7) which for me makes no difference at moment for a garage, summer kitchen, looks nice, wall mounted, discrete.  I have decided to use the backhaul via cat5e cable  + power supply instead of PoE once it was in hand for the places I wanted the coverage, amazingly I am getting almost the nominal speed the cable modem delivers or nominal considering itself consumption (820mb out of 1gb).

  @David-TP  it looks nice and discrete in the wall, I will hide then power supply cable later. 

  @David-TP Hi David, another question for you. 

If I have the BE11000 in my house with 2 BE1000 satellites, can I ethernet connect from the main unit to an AXE5300 unit 150 feet away and then that AXE5300 unit has 2 satellites? Is this the best way to do this?

In other words, the BE1000 (x3) will be in my house, while the AXE5300 (x3) will be in the barn and shop. 

Thanks.