r/tplinkdeco

Hello everyone.

I am planning to buy deco m4 but I have a question. I have 2 ethernet cables for each floor installed in my house. My plan is connect both deco with ethernet cable. I watched some setups and they usually say connect the first deco with cable and second deco will be wireless but the my walls are thick and since the cables are already installed, I want to use them to get better connection. Is it possible to connect two deco to the modem using lan1 and lan2 ports and achieve a mesh system or I must use second deco ad wireless? Also if yes, should I change deco settings to access point? Can this affect the mesh system?

Hi all just installed my deco 7 BE11000 a power surge killed my Google mesh unit and I had the protection plan so I got this beast for 100 bucks as it was on sale for $399. Can any one tell me about the different modes like IoT, MLO, etc. any setup tips or anything in general I should know or look to do? TIA.

I plugged a PC into my original ISP router to bypass Deco earlier when trying to trouble shoot a network issue. I was then surprised to see the PC was showing up as a wired online client in the Deco app.

My decos are in router mode, although the only setup I did when I got them was to plug the main one into the ISP router and it defaulted to router mode. I thought I would have had to change the ISP router to modem mode or something, then I would only have one connectable router in the house.

Because the PC showed up on the Deco app when wired to the ISP router, does this mean that I can use these ports on the ISP router and everything on the LAN can still talk and see each other? Or how does that work and how did the Deco see it?