TP Link Deco XE75 Setup Guide | FAQ's Answered | All Configs Shown

hey what's up guys in this video I'm going to show you guys all the possible ways of connecting The tp-link Deco xc75 so you might have heard of wired or ethernet backhaul or Wireless backhaul so we're going to go cover all of that I have a modem here an unmanned switch here A bunch of ethernet cables here and I have another router here if you're interested in the performance of this thing so speed test range chest what The Deco app looks like I've done that in a separate video so I'll put the links for that in the description box below I'll also put the product links in the description box below if you guys are interested in picking one up let's start off with what is a mesh Wi-Fi and how is that different from a normal router so right off the bat if you have a normal router that's giving you Wi-Fi coverage throughout your home a mesh Wi-Fi is basically now two or more devices that are doing the same exact thing so you have two or more devices working together to increase your Wi-Fi coverage so you don't no longer will have Wi-Fi dead zones throughout your home and it really just depends on how big your home is you might need two you might need three you might even need four of these but essentially the whole purpose of this was if you go to one edge of your house or in your backyard you really you know having trouble connecting to Wi-Fi or it's cutting in and out mesh Wi-Fi's are designed to solve that problem and one of the mesh Wi-Fi's has to be a router so in this case both of these are actually technically routers however in the same network only the one that sucks up to the modem is acting as the router the other one acts as a node or an extender or a satellite or an access point whatever you want to call it but even though it's physically a router it's not acting as a router anymore and and this is by Design you only want to have one router are in charge of your local network okay so in most cases I think you have a router and this router is hooked up to your modem so this is if this is your current setup you're basically going to remove the router because you no longer need this because the Deco itself is technically a router so you get a deco you have three ports here they are Auto sensing ports they're all gigabit speed ports so it doesn't matter which one you use you can use one two or three I'm just gonna plug it into one and then you're gonna follow the instructions on The Deco app which The Deco app actually tells you how to connect it and what to connect so once you do that it asks you for a Wi-Fi name and a password now here's a hint if you use the same Wi-Fi name or SSID and password as the router you're replacing you can have all your devices automatically connect to this guy without changing any of their settings however very important both the Wi-Fi name and the password they're both case sensitive so very very important note there okay so once you do that even though you got a two pack or a three pack you've technically now created your network you technically now have Wi-Fi so you're technically in a way done because this is all you need so even if you get a two pack you don't actually need to use both you could just use one and you're fine with it okay but in most cases if you're getting a mesh Wi-Fi you're probably getting it to use both but I just did want to say that you could get away with just using one now there are two ways of connecting these to each other one is called wired or ethernet back call the other one is called Wireless backhaul so basically go from any one of these remaining ports so if I go from Port 2 let's say and you go to any one of these three ports and you're done so now you've created a wired back hall Network and if you take your Wi-Fi device let's just say this is two or three rooms away if I'm closer to this one it'll switch me here then I walk through on my home if I'm closer to this one it'll switch me here all of this is happening seamlessly you don't need to worry about it you connect to the Wi-Fi name and you're good to go so this is going to give you the best possible speeds because there is an ethernet cable ensuring that now the other option which is the more convenient and easier option is called Wireless back call and wireless back call is when this guy is always hooked up this main router is always hooks up to the mono V ethernet but this one is one or two rooms away around maybe 35 40 feet away or so depending on your home and if it's too far too or Too Close it'll the app usually tells you if it's a great connection or a good connection or if it's bad or good but essentially like maybe one or two rooms away you plug this into the power and it wirelessly talks to this guy and you you add it in The Deco app but it's all pretty straightforward if you buy it as a set The Deco app already knows that so you just power it on it automatically connects and you're done super super simple now you've created a wireless back call Network however in the case of The Deco you have two options which I go into in my performance review where I do the speed test range test and show you guys Deco app so in that app in the case of The Deco you can actually dedicate the six gigahertz band which is the Wi-Fi 60 band uh to work as a dedicated backhaul and when you do that typically it's faster speeds that's what it was for me when I tested it so you have that option in The Deco app but whether you use that or not it's just going to either increase the speeds or decrease the speeds depending on uh this connection but at the end of the day even with that enabled even with the really good speeds you actually get with wireless backhaul considering the price of this thing this will not be as fast as the wired backhaul connection so what do I mean by that well when I'm closer to this one let's just say this is one or two rooms away it'll switch me here if I do a speed test it will be fast but it won't be as fast as if I'm closer to this one and I'm doing a speed test the reason for that is because when I'm here I'm closer to this one this one is wirelessly talking to this guy and then this guy has to wirelessly talk to this guy for it to then go through the ethernet cable to the modem to access the internet whereas when I'm closer to this one well I'm just wirelessly jumping here and then from here I'm going via Ethernet to the modem so there's one less Wireless hop so that's the disadvantage of Wireless back call however considering the price of this thing this actually did fairly well in my testing that I did now let's get to answering some common questions if you have a need for more ethernet ports like me what you can do is I mean these come with three ethernet ports on each and you can actually use any of these three so I should mention that too because that is a question I get asked but if this is wirelessly talking to this one can I still use the ethernet ports from this and the simple answer is yes you can so if you want to connect I don't know a Fire TV Cube or a laptop or an Xbox whatever requires ethernet even though this is wirelessly talking to it you can still connect it to any one of these ports and connect the device and you're good to go now let's just assume for the sake of this video this uh phone let's just assume this is a laptop that requires ethernet now when this is connected another question I get asked is okay if I connected via Ethernet to the wireless back called node would that be as fast as it's connected via Ethernet uh just basically getting the maximum possible speeds and the simple answer is no so even though you're ensuring a very fast speed from this guy to this guy this one still needs to wirelessly to talk to this one to then go through the internet to go to the uh to go through the ethernet to get to the cable modem to access the internet so that's why it's not as fast as if if this supposed laptop for the sake of this video was connected directly to this router one because now it's going from this wire to this and this guy is going straight to the modem so that's ensuring a better connection now let's say you're like me and you need more ethernet ports well what do you do well the simple answer is you get an unmanaged switch so this is an eight Port switch there are different sizes for Port 5 Port 8 port 16 32 24 I think also and maybe probably 40 I think I've seen a 48 as well but basically there's a whole bunch of sizes for these and notice I said unmanaged switch not a managed switch so the differences between a manage twitch and an unmanaged switch is a manage switch gives you way more options where an unmanned switch basically gives you zero options but a manage switch lets you create virtual lands if you need that you can assign IP addresses you could do a whole bunch of stuff basically with a Mana twitch that's kind of outside the scope of this video but manage switches do cost a lot more than an unmanned switch which that's why it's just worth getting an unmanaged switch in most cases now when you get an unmanaged switch you hook it up to power and there are some Poe power over ethernet switches but I'm not getting into that so just to keep things simple this one hooks up to power you hook up the ethernet let's just say you could pick any port you want it does not matter and you could pick any port you want over here it does not matter and now you've just expanded your Port so if you get a port unmanaged switch now you have seven other usable ports so if you want to connect five other devices to this a laptop a desktop an Xbox a PlayStation a switch a Fire TV Cube an Apple TV whatever you want to connect it to just get some ethernet cables if I can get these untangled connect it anywhere you want plug in the device and now they're connected to your network which is all you pretty much need to do for that now the cool thing is that you can also even though again this is wirelessly connected to this one you can connect the unmanaged switch to any one of these ports and you can have these connected devices as well but again because this is wirelessly talking to this one it's not going to be as fast for this however you can do it another question that I get asked is can I make an on can I use an unmanaged switch to create a wired back call Network and the answer is absolutely you can't so you can go from if you go from this one this main router to the switch and then from the switch you hook up any one of these ports it does not matter to any one of these ports it does not matter so in this case now you've created a wired backhaul Network and no matter where you connect it to everything's going to be very very fast and this is this is actually the way I have mine set up so and you can also go from this to an unmanned switch to another unmanaged switch to this all of that is fine and if you've noticed I'm actually using a Netgear on manage switch now unmanaged switches the brand does not matter so I can go from Netgear to tp-link to Euro to Nest Wi-Fi Pro to Asus to the Netgear Orbee it does not matter so the unmanaged brand name does not matter I can even go from this to a Netgear to a tp-link on manage twitch back to this and it's still fine probably the question I get the most asked is can I go from modem to unmanage switch and then from the unmanaged switch go to the first one which is going to be my router and the other one and the simple answer is no the modem needs to connect to the router first this is the most important step this needs to happen you have a lot of free play after this so as long as the modem is hooked up to your unmanaged switch from here on out you have a lot of choices you can go from here to the switch to this guy you can go from this guy to this guy you can go from this guy to another unmanaged switch to another one and then back to this one you have a lot of free play the most important thing is for these two to be connected to each other can I mix wired and wireless back call and the answer is yes to that and The Deco app will automatically determine that so even even if this was let's just say a wired backhaul connection and for some odd reason you wanted to move this and it couldn't be wired anymore The Deco will automatically pick that up there's nothing you need to do there's no option you need to change it will automatically determine it I'll figure it out for you and you should be good to go so that's pretty much it hopefully that answered your questions if you guys have any additional questions please leave in the comment sections below and as always smash that subscribe button and I'll catch you guys in the next one

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Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 18 2023