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TP-Link sponsored this video checking out the Deco X20 and this is one of

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those products that's designed for if you have a problem that's really nice to

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have but admittedly hard to solve so the

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nice problem that you have is you've got a gigantic house or you've got a small

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business that is up to around the size of 5,500 to 6,000 square ft wow good for

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you nice mansion the part that sucks about that is that there's a lot of

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issues with extending ing the range of Wi-Fi Beyond I mean realistically a

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house or or business around the 2,000 to

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3,000 square ft size now back in the mid

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2000s there were a handful of ways that you could increase the range of your

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wireless access point you could uh just boost the gain uh many router firmwares

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allowed you to go in and just turn the gain up on your antennas you could

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reconfigure your antennas so adding uh

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directional antennas or Canna to address

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you know cold spots in your coverage was one way to go about it or you could just

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add a second router and by router I of

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course mean uh wireless access point switch router combo unit you could just

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add another router but all of these approaches kind of came with their own

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disadvantages turning up gain also turns

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up noise so even though the signal might

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travel farther it might end up being more distorted and therefore less useful

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every time you add a directional antenna you are taking away from the

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omnidirectional performance that typically every other part of your house

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is going to need and adding a second router is just not a great user

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experience because everyone has to know

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you know oh should I connect to upstairs or downstairs but then what if you know

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the upstairs one is at this end of the house and the downstairs one is right

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under me and I'm here but which one should I connect to now you're expecting

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a lot out of your users so that is where

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mesh Wi-Fi comes in it has the benefits

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of multiple access points but with the convenience of a single access point

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meaning that you don't have to worry about which wi-fi to connect to now back

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in the day obviously you could just configure your laptop or your phone or

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whatever other device to connect to both of them but devices have this tendency

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to kind of stick to whatever Wi-Fi

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access point they connect to first so you might come home connect to the one

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that's closest to your front door and then go into you know the back Den or

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the games room or something like that where there's an access point that's

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closer but your phone will still be grabbing on for dear life to that

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original access point that you were connected to that's why we can't trust

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them to manage it so Mash networks are pretty much the solution to handling a

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much larger space until you get up into solutions that are really designed

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designed more for uh commercial use or Enterprise use where you'll have

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individual access points that all come back to like a central server closet and

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they're all hardwired fundamentally though this works in pretty much the

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same way where each of these is a Wi-Fi 6 access point that could be used in a

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standalone fashion so you can see we've got uh a fully enclosed antenna design

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little rubber feed on the bottom so it doesn't slip around power input and then

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two gigabit Ethernet jacks one really cool thing about The Deco line is that

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while commercial Solutions will tend to use individual Ethernet cables wired out

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to each access point and then back to a central switch obviously that's not

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feasible in most homes it gives you the choice you can use Wi-Fi to communicate

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between the satellites and the main unit or they have Ethernet ports so you can

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connect them via an Ethernet cable which is going to be less susceptible to

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interference or leg as long as it's convenient to do so overall The Deco X20

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is an affordable choice that's going to give you whole home coverage for video

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calls or downloads without worrying about buffering or robot voice or any of

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those annoying Wi-Fi problems of course all that's left for us to do now is give

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it a shot to simplify the setup I am going to be using our residential

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internet connection so I plug in a deco

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over here in logistics and I need an Ethernet cable ah sure internet light is

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stable deco's LED is pulsing Blue

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Logistics Linus Wi-Fi

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it's gigabit cool that is some spicy Wi-Fi performance 800 megabit on Wi-Fi

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okay we're not going to make it over the ShortCircuit set come on Andy let's

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go oh yeah it's dropping it's dropping

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it has not fully dropped yet though no no it dropped hey perfect okay good

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that's what we wanted so let's go install an intermediary Deco oh yeah

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even the little animations different this time I think it sees the the blue

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one cuz there's a little blue flashing light on here it's solid hey there it is

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okay where are we going to place this this is going to go in the uh PC build

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corner cool jonno do you want to pop this one in the PC build corner in the

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spot where I had it so the whole process for each Deco takes I don't know I'd

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give it about 2 to 3 minutes but all three of them are showing up in the app

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since we're in the app there's actually a couple of other cool things that we can check out in here so you can see all

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the devices on your home network you can go in here and change your Wi-Fi

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configuration set up a guest Network so a guest network is going to have

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internet access but not access to anything else that's on the network and

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then Advanced none of this is particularly advanced stuff but it's

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really nice that it's so simple to access so uh we're in wireless router

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mode but if for whatever reason we uh

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are like some isps for example it's kind of hard to get your stupid modem router

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switch access point combo thing it's hard to get the router functionality

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turned off last time I checked Shaw local for example requires you to phone

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them okay uh so if you just want these to operate as a wireless access point

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then that's totally cool let's go ahead and cart this back before we do that we

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can see that from the ShortCircuit set we're getting much better reception I

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have three Wi-Fi bars and uh probably

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when I click this oh yep we go the zold 3 roamed to the second access point

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which is over in the PC build corner TP-Link says that this transition takes

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about3 seconds uh let's go ahead and do

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a quick speed test as you can see our speeds a lot lower because there are

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multiple hops that we're going through and we're actually quite far away from

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that one as well but this is still a lot better than nothing which is what we had

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before I mean yeah 90 megabit per second is enough that I'm going to be able to

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have a video call you know what I think both deos have to

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be within range of the main unit so I'm going to go put this in the library what

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up Ethan I'm I'm leaving I won't breathe the air too much okay bye while we're

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waiting for that to pick up there's a couple of other things we can check out in the app test speed detect cameras

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ping test um you can check your public

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IP sure so there's a little game you

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play while you

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and there's parental controls so you can set up times of use um services that are

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allowed to be used for example and you can add devices on a one by one basis

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you can prioritize gaming or streaming in your qos just it's not really deep in

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terms of configuration but it's simple to use now all I need to do is see if my

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third Deco is now online yes it is okay

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looks like yes I grabbed on to the

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library one all right all right we switched to a Wi-Fi 6 laptop here as

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well for adding the third satellite and let's see what kind of speeds we get

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okay that's way better we're getting double the speed with the extra

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satellite and that's impressive considering that there's still a wall

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and some distance between us this setup would likely work fine for the average

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person but I bet we can get even better results if we connect the hubs with an

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Ethernet cable dang that's definitely a big Improvement compared to before

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almost doubling our performance again so this is a great for power users or for

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people who are going to have quite a few devices streaming off of the satellites

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if all this looks good for the next 5 days The Deco X20 is going to be

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discounted from $249 to $1.99 at the

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link down below just for 5 days thanks for watching guys and subscribe to Short

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