TP-Link AX5400 VDSL Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi 6, Dual-Band, 4x Gigabit WAN/LAN Ethernet ports, 3 RJ11 Ports, Connect up to 200 devices, VDSL2 Speed, HomeShield Security, Works with Alexa (Deco X73-DSL)

The speed and signal are fast and stable more than I expected. Recommended

I was after a unit with VDSL to replace my aging modem. This one gives exceptional wifi connection and activity speeds for my smart home devices, so much faster than my 6yo router. Range isn’t great but it covers my home effectively.

A stylish looking device, very user friendly interface, great access controls. It works very well at close range, effective range is 16m is any direction, if you are further away it doesn't really work. Some features require a subscription.

I'm really pleased with this purchase, it works extremely well.Even more impressive is the excellent customer support I received from TP-Link with various after-sales queries I had - I am now sold on the brand.

Having used a TP-Link VR2800 router with M5 and X20 Deco units which have been solid and supported up to 40 devices simultaneously, I thought why not upgrade to a DSL router that supports mesh instead of having to use 2 devices (VR2800 with an attached X20). I thought the transition would be seamless given all my other nodes were TP-Link branded but how wrong was I, setup was simple enough as I've used the Deco app for a while now. However, there were some differences in the UI mainly due to the fact that TP-Link want you to pay for HomeShield Pro so features such as parental control require a subscription.The problems started when I tried to use the QoS feature this allows you to prioritise certain devices others if there are lots of devices consuming the bandwidth on your network. I was shocked to discover that there is no feature to limit a devices bandwidth, this can be done on the VR2800 which was released in 2018. Now the is specific reason to do this and anyone who has a mesh network and SkyQ will know when you download shows it will consume all the download speed on your network 72mbps in my case, this then bounces other devices like laptops etc off the network which isn't the greatest when you're on a video call.The issues didn't stop there either the QoS feature on the router doesn't work at all details of which can be found in the TP-Link forum, ultimately I was contacted by an engineer who is looking into the issue but that will no doubt take a while so I decided to soldier and kept the router. After a week or two I started to experience poor quality during video calls and voice calls on my laptop, I also witnessed the router randomly disconnecting from the other deco nodes. This was very surprising given my house is small, none of the internal walls are solid and I have more than the required number of deco nodes which means I pick up my internet signal halfway down my street (when it's working).The dropouts in the calls were severely affecting my capacity to work as a remote I.T. professional so I decided to do some further investigation with the router, I was aghast at what I found next. For no specific reason the load on the CPU in the router would spike to over 93% and this was without anyone streaming music or video. Bearing in mind the old setup I had barely reach 40% CPU Load when everyone in the house was streaming on multiple devices and that the X73-DSL is a new device that is supposedly capable of handling 200 devices on its own, you can now see that there are bugs that TP-Link need to resolve and should have waited before releasing this device. Again, this issue is documented this on the TP-Link forum.Suffice to say after suffering these issues I still encountered further problem due to the CPU Load spiking for no reason when the router was being used to stream video on multiple devices it began to disconnect from the internet at this point I had, had enough and have now returned the router and returned to my previous setup and regained my sanity.