The size is actually smaller than I tot… just like 2 roll of toilet paper… haha. And light weight also. Easy to carry when needed… but of cos not pocket size lah. Performance wise…. I can get around 300mb in my living room. I don’t try to place somewhere else for better reception…. Cos 200 or 300mb is good enough for me… as long as it is higher than 100 mb. I use my Yes prepaid SIM card can get 600mb outside the house.
Connection is superb. Very stable. More reliable than my maxis fiber earlier. Always disconnect

How to charge ?

I use this in the office because office wifi has firewall many places cannot go. But this router size is too obvious so i need to find way to hide it from IT dept and only pull long wired external antenna to get the signal. with built in antenna I can get about 250mbps with 5G, but the signal is not strong enough sometimes dropped to 4G about 40mbps.

Just found out TPlink X50-5G can lock the band! wow this feature is not found in many other brands. Now i can lock to 5G band NR78 and will not (hopefully) switch to 4G anymore. Superb.

****UPDATE****
Nope it doesn't lock the band, it is just for display purpose. No meaning at all

This post has been edited by iiee: Oct 12 2023, 10:59 AM

Same experience for me on NX510v, can’t really lock band.

blacktubi I think your review mentioned that X50-5G can lock band right? Probably good to update that.

I didn't mention that NX510V can lock band

But Deco X50-5G definitely can lock band

But no point to lock band for 5G cause there's only 1 band now

Read my sentence again and read the post I tagged.

I never say that you claim NX510v about anything.

Speed test , using my Samsung fold 4 as modem.

I also have Deco X50-5G. Mine cannot lock band. All the bands that are supposed to be selected does not appear in the Deco app. Just blank.

Tested with umobile home 5g and also celcom xpax prepaid sim card

It will only show you the available band to lock onto

When it's on 5G, there's only 1 band available, so there's no point to lock band

However, my band locking and selecting CA combo does work on 4G on Celcom and DiGi. What firmware you use?

Mine.. after searching for available band then it goes just blank. Does not show any band to select.

Firmware version:
1.1.0 Build 20230804 Rel. 3600

This post has been edited by mydri: Oct 12 2023, 05:56 PM

The reason to lock the 5G band is to prevent it from switching to 4G band and dropped to 4G. When both 4G and 5G signals are available, the router will switch to stronger signal that it "thinks" better. In my case 5G only 3 bars but working better than 4 bars 4G.

Confirm cannot lock band? scratch off the list

either zte or yeacomm then

There's a separate feature for you to choose 4G or 5G, not the same menu as the band selection.

Edit: It's under the network mode menu where you can choose 5G preferred, 5G only or 4G only. It's working properly for me. Can you try using 5G only and report back?

When I test the router on a SIM card without 5G plan. It does not even connect to the 4G network when 5G only mode is selected.

Feel free to share your finding as I am curious as well.

Contact TP-Link support, cause it's working properly for me on the same firmware.



This post has been edited by blacktubi: Oct 12 2023, 09:12 PM

Mine does not have 5G only.
The available option:
5G preferred
4G only



Mine below the toggle Auto just blank

Wow, that's really strange. Thanks for sharing this with me.

Just curious, from where did you buy your deco x50-5g?

You're on android right? blacktubi on ios base of the reviews

Different settings for android and ios maybe? Cant be right?

Same on android and ios.. Here are screenshots from my ipad

On my X50-5G only has 2 options. 5G preferred and 4G only. No 5G only , i wish there is. Firmware 1.10 b20230804 r3600

I am buying a pair of external antenna that works only on 3300-3500Mhz N78 instead of full band antenna, see whether it can stay on 5G or not.



This post has been edited by iiee: Oct 13 2023, 10:07 AM