Deoc XE75 Mesh System with Hardware Ver 1.6 & 3.6 Units
I have a couple questions about the XE75 hardware versions. I have a total of 5 units with 3 being hardware version 1.6 and 2 being version 3.6. Does anyone know the answer to these 2 questions.
1. Is there any problem with having mixed versions of hardware for my mesh system? I made one of the newer 3.6 versions my main router but wondering if there is any known issues with the older versions being satellites.
2. If I update the firmware in my 3.6 hardware version router to the new beta version, will it give me wireguard VPN capability? I assume since the router performs the VPN function, that the other satellites being the older version should work fine.
Any feedback is appreicated
Thanks,
jcp77
I'm going to use the chart below to answer your questions.
This is part of the deco firmware platform chart. The first number in the left column is the firmware platform number. The next number in the middle column is the firmware version.
When it comes to mixing deco's of the same model but different hardware version you want to go with the one with the oldest hardware version as it's firmware will have the most options.
You have three decos on 1.6 hardware which in turn are running firmware version 1.4.1 and if we use the chart above and we look for 1.4.x we can see your three hardware version 1.6 units are on firmware platform 1.10.0 and have access to the following options
Now the other two decos are on a newer hardware version so there on firmware version 1.3.1 so we use the chart again and we see those two decos are only on hardware platform 1.9.0 so they do not have access to the same options as the three 1.6 units
So to gain all the options of hardware version 1.6 one of those units needs to be the main unit. This link goes over how to swap a deco to a main unit
https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/2400/
As for the wireguard question. Wireguard support wont be added to any of your decos till they are upgraded from firmware platform 1.10.0 to firmware platform 1.11.0 as shown in the chart below. I wish I could give you an ETA on when that will happen but I am unable to do so I will say when it happens it will probably happen to the three 1.6 hardware version units first.
