TP-Link Deco X20

Giving your busy family network a Wi-Fi 6 boost is as easy as one-two-three-with the Deco X20

SCORE PRICE £192 (£230 inc VAT) from box.co.uk WI-FI 5 DOWNLOADS WI-FI 6 DOWNLOAD The idea of a Wi-Fi 6 mesh system for just £230 sounds too good to be true – but it isn’t. TP-Link’s Deco X20 package comprises three little cylindrical nodes that provide 802.11ax coverage throughout your home for a price that’s lower than some individual routers. How has this been achieved? For a start, each node contains only a single 5GHz radio, as distinct from the tri-band approach favoured by Asus and Netgear. That’s not necessarily a disaster, though, as Wi-Fi 6’s OFDMA technology is specifically designed to share out the available bandwidth across multiple connections. The radios themselves are quite modest models too, with claimed data rates of 1,201Mbits/sec, no 160MHz support and 2x2 MIMO. That doesn’t alarm us either; as the…

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