I swear, trying to figure out whether TP-Link’s Deco mesh and EasyMesh routers will actually play nicely together is driving me insane. One moment I’m reading that Deco doesn’t support EasyMesh at all, so they cannot form a unified mesh network. Then a separate TP-Link article pops up saying that certain Deco models can act as EasyMesh agents or “add to an existing EasyMesh network.” So I’m left scratching my head—do I need matching Deco units, or just one router that’s EasyMesh-enabled, or some firmware update, or what? The diagrams, the terms (“AP mode”, “agent”, “controller”, “satellite”, etc.) all jumble together, and the support docs contradict each other depending on which model or region. I just want it to work, but it’s like every time I think I understand, TP-Link changes the rules.
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Most manuals say EasyMesh and Deco Mesh don’t work together. I guess someone will need to test this out.
Easymesh is a standard, whereas Deco/Omada are proprietary tplink thing. So don’t even think for a sec that will work together unless tplink themselves advertises it which they don’t afaik.
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Go with asus AiMesh :
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when I was trying to expand my network, all my research (asking people on reddit :-D) suggested that deco are not compatible with easymesh…(for what its worth)
And sometimes easymesh will be advertised but the firmware is not released yet.
Even easymesh using ethernet depends on the hardware version and firmware. And only few models support this.
Better look up info on each model no.