Deco M4 (3-pack)

I don’t normally write product reviews, but felt I had to with this. All I can say is WOW! Incredibly easy to install with the app, and for the fIrst time in 3 years we are now able to get the full 350mbps Virgin Media service we are paying for around the whole house, even at the far end of the garden. Due to brick walls, phones, and other interference, upstairs was atrocious at best, sometimes as slow as 0.2mbps, but now it’s as though you are plugged directly into the router. As others have said, make sure you change the original router over to modem mode first so it doesn’t try and compete (with Virgin Media to get to the settings just type 192.168.0.1 into a browser and the password is on the sticker on the bottom of your hub) and I also found that you need to plug the TiVo box Ethernet cable into the first Deco unit instead of the Virgin hub, but other than that it’s probably the easiest thing I’ve ever installed. I read a great comment on here somewhere that said that by increasing your broadband speed you are only making the road wider, not longer, but by installing this mesh system you are creating an entire home network that reaches all the places the rubbish ISP routers can’t get to. It works seamlessly from room to room, there are great parental controls on the app and most importantly it is very stable with no drop outs. I went for the M4 mesh system with 3 Decos, which is probably overkill in a 4 bed house this size but the cost is very reasonable if you consider the difference it’s made. One is installed front right of the house as it has to be plugged into the Virgin hub, the second one is back left to cover the other end of the house, and the third is at the top of the stairs and covers every bedroom perfectly. Even my son commented on how much faster his Xbox games and updates now download. If you have any wifi black spots around your house, or your devices run slower than they should, then I can not recommend this highly enough.

I absolutely love this product. I've waited a few weeks to review to see how it holds out, but it amazes me how good it is. I have a 4 bed house, with my router downstairs front left. My study is upstairs, back right, so they couldn't be further apart. The stock router from my ISP is AWFUL. I used a cheap Negear range extender for a while, speed was shocking, and the signal strength only held up for 3 weeks before it died completely. I was going to look at powerline adaptors to get ethernet to my laptop, but I have other devices upstairs that struggle with WiFi. So after a recommendation from a colleague, I stumped up for these and I'm so glad I did. I got the M4 triple pack for the same as other retailers sold the double pack. Amazon also let me spread it over 5 months so it doesn't hurt the pocket. Set up was a piece of cake, the App is very intuitive. Those who are not tech-savvy should not be afraid of this item. One gap I did notice was that to retain your existing wifi name and password, you have to disable wifi on your existing router. I do not have a button for this so had to go into Admin mode on my ISPs router. However once set up all your existing devices connect straight away. I did think I may have to have the 3rd device somewhere in the middle ground, but in fact the signal between the two in the far corners of my house is fantastic. It "only" measures 2/3 bars, but has not dropped once in 3 weeks. I also get the full speed in speed tests, not the vastly reduced speed I saw with the Netgear range extender. I like the roaming feature too, you can see which of your devices are connected to which Deco, and they switch between whatever gets the strongest signal at the time. I have around 20 internet enabled devices (laptops, tablets, mobiles, firestick, chromecast, echo's...) and they all connect and perform wonderfully. There are other useful features on the app - you can prioritise devices if you wish (Streaming devices etc), attribute devices to users and rename them to help you identify what is on your network (you get notifications when a new device connects too,and you can blacklist them if you don't know them). There are also parental control features (which I haven't used as my little'n has a kindle fire with parental controls on), but it gives me confidence she could have a better tablet and I could use those features. The guest network feature good as well. You can 'shake to share' on the app to send the connection details to anyone that visits. We also have a little framed 'Welcome to our home' sign with guest wifi details which will be a nice little touch when people stay. I can't comment on tech support as I haven't had to use it, although it is in the rating system. So overall, absolutely cannot fault this product. It's entry level mesh wifi looking at other prices, but suits me perfectly. Also I still have the third device should my needs grow in future.

Summary: It marginally improves the wi-fi signal throughout my difficult house but it is nowhere near what I was expecting and I almost sent it back. On balance, it did offer an improvement so I kept it. Pros: 1. It works and the setup was fairly easy. 2. It definitely improves the spread of wi-fi signal across the house with some rooms that had poor wi-fi signals now having an acceptable one. Cons: 1. It's only marginally better than my router on its own (although to be fair to the Deco, I have a large, long, house, half of which has a metal exterior, so any system will struggle a bit). 2. There does not seem to be a way in the app to 'force' devices to use the nearest Deco unit to them. Effectively this means a device linking with a Deco unit that has a low signal strength instead of one in the same room! This results in a poorer performance. Frustrating. 3. It took a few days of experimentation to get the optimum sites for all units by trial and error.

Excellent product

Attenzione che l'articolo arriva con le prese UK e non italiane EU, dovrete poi acquistare dei commutatori e/o direttamente dei trasformatori compatibili.... Peccato che questa informazione non sia riportata tra quelle importanti da sapere.

I was very surprised by how easy it is to set these up. I was able to do it myself and have not had any issues with any of the units that I bought. This is really an excellent product. I’m using them at my mom‘s house to connect three three outdoor cottages to the main Wi-Fi in the house.

No tiene tanto alcance como dice. Hay partes de la casa donde el internet no funciona.

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