Wow, I was quite surprised by these results but there ya go! Amazon Links for today (commissions earned): 🔥 TP-Link BE230 ➡ geni.us/BKiQ1A 🔥 TP-Link BE550 ➡ geni.us/qDQh
The result is actually expected because you were using the 6Ghz band on the BE550, which has lower power mandated by the FCC and does not penetrate walls as well. Hence as you go further away the 5Ghz band on the BE230 outperforms the BE550. If you had tried the 5Ghz band on the BE550, you would have found similar performance to the BE230.
Interesting that, so the range on 5Ghz and potentially 2.4ghz devices should be as good if not better on the BE550 the further away you are given the built in antennas? Trying to find one that'll perform well upstairs with it being connected downstairs and also one that'll reach our ring camera in our garden which is probably about 10-20 ft away from our ISP router now.
Something I should have mentioned is that the BE550 can auto-switch between the 5ghz and 6ghz when connected to WiFi 7. So it is still soemwhat surprising that the connection seemed weaker with the BE550.
Yes this is it, especially with the bands combined, you dont know what the router is doing, it could be clinging on to 6 for dear life, having said that I would have thought a window would introduce a significant challenge for 6ghz
The Be550 may show a higher speed if you stand at a different angle to it. Perhaps if you turned the router 90 degrees, the speed would increase. Anyway, thanks for the review.
Can you link these routers in mesh mode with EasyMesh and also put the main node in Access Point mode? Would the mesh keep working after the Access Point mode is activated?
I believe you can. I did ask TP-Link about this the other day after doing some research and given how strong both routers are the range should be bloody good both linked!
Wow, I was quite surprised by these results but there ya go!
Amazon Links for today (commissions earned):
🔥 TP-Link BE230 ➡ geni.us/BKiQ1A
🔥 TP-Link BE550 ➡ geni.us/qDQh
The result is actually expected because you were using the 6Ghz band on the BE550, which has lower power mandated by the FCC and does not penetrate walls as well. Hence as you go further away the 5Ghz band on the BE230 outperforms the BE550. If you had tried the 5Ghz band on the BE550, you would have found similar performance to the BE230.
Interesting that, so the range on 5Ghz and potentially 2.4ghz devices should be as good if not better on the BE550 the further away you are given the built in antennas? Trying to find one that'll perform well upstairs with it being connected downstairs and also one that'll reach our ring camera in our garden which is probably about 10-20 ft away from our ISP router now.
Something I should have mentioned is that the BE550 can auto-switch between the 5ghz and 6ghz when connected to WiFi 7. So it is still soemwhat surprising that the connection seemed weaker with the BE550.
Yes this is it, especially with the bands combined, you dont know what the router is doing, it could be clinging on to 6 for dear life, having said that I would have thought a window would introduce a significant challenge for 6ghz
Which will be easily fixed with TP-Link's due to be released WIFI 7 extender.
The Be550 may show a higher speed if you stand at a different angle to it. Perhaps if you turned the router 90 degrees, the speed would increase. Anyway, thanks for the review.
Can you link these routers in mesh mode with EasyMesh and also put the main node in Access Point mode? Would the mesh keep working after the Access Point mode is activated?
I believe you can. I did ask TP-Link about this the other day after doing some research and given how strong both routers are the range should be bloody good both linked!