TP-Link Archer A6 will be available exclusively on our online store in Malaysia soon.

Launching price RM189 on 21st February only.
http://bit.ly/2GNK8Oj

Actually TP-Link implemented DoT and even DoH on their Wi-Fi 7 routers and they didn't announce it. It's more stable and perform better as well.

This is on Archer BE230

But still, even though TP-Link's implementation is excellent, DoH or DoT will make your internet slower, you will definitely feel it.

DNS resolving time is way slower than the plain old DNS.

none of deco series having doh/dot features being planned for future update, and since deco series are developed by separate team from archer series, you will need to have some drastic change in manage deco.

deco enforced mobile app login (tp link account required) and also if internet is down/tp server is down it is more difficult to manage them other than try rebooting the main deco.

deco have some things being forced on and cannot changed such as channel width (20/40 for 2.4ghz), channel number and ssid for main network being same for 2.4/5ghz. there are workaround for latter, which is make use of guest network or iot network specially with 2.4ghz on only so with different ssid.

web interface is heavily limited to mostly status monitoring and manual firmware upgrade.

Deco for your first mesh is okay. it is more about simplicity because easier to set up and in newer products, the mesh units in box are pre-paired so you can just turn these sub nodes right after setting up main deco and these sub nodes will automatically join. however deco is not really designed for power users which need absolute control over most settings

if internet/tp server down you will most probably see this



so tough luck manage deco just in case internet down or tp link server down. because deco app heavily relies on tp link cloud service for managing deco
port forwarding is supported in deco
XT8 is not worth for me. it having much weaker hardware compared to on paper spec. you might as well get 2 x AX86u pro or above but its dual band solution is not quite ideal for certain situation

XT8 actually received a silent upgrade from ASUS. The version on sale now is the V2 version with upgraded CPU and new Wi-FI chipset.

They dont even use the same firmware as the original XT8.

And yes, XT8 can do 1Gbps over wireless backhaul from main unit to mesh node.

Hi, guys i just got a tplink be85 and having problem using it with fx3060V(Black), been trying to setup the PPPOE setting the whole night but still fail . The tplink keep showing Ethernet cable is not connected but once i connect back the ASUS xt8 everything back to normal. Any Sifu can help upon this issue?