The biggest upgrade I did last year was setting up a Wi-Fi 7 mesh network and with this huge Prime Day deal, you can too

by adminJune 27, 202600

Of all the various upgrades and PC tweaks I’ve done in recent years, nothing has given me a great sense of ‘wow, this is so much better’ than converting my basic home Wi-Fi setup to a full-blown Wi-Fi 7 home mesh network.

And thanks to this great deal on the TP-Link Deco 7 Pro BE14000, you can make the switch too, as it’s just $500 at Amazon for a three-node pack.

Yes, I know that ‘just’ and $500 might not seem to make a lot of sense here, but you’re basically getting three separate Wi-Fi 7 routers for the money. At this price, that puts them at $167 apiece, and when you consider just how good they are, it’s genuinely good value for money.

I reviewed this exact kit last year, under its alternate name of Deco BE68, and came away seriously impressed. While you can have just one router, the whole point of a mesh network is that it gives you seamless Wi-Fi coverage throughout your house. You can hardwire the nodes directly together via one of the LAN ports, or as you can the same as me: Plug all of my PCs directly into one router and have the link to the others via the 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands.

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A photo of a TP-Link Deco BE68 mesh router stood next to its retail packaging. — (Image credit: Future)

The internet connection to my home tops out at 1.1 Gbps, and with my Deco BE68 setup, I never get anything less than that. It also avoids the problem that some of my rigs are only Wi-Fi 6 or 6E capable; by using the LAN ports and a wireless node-to-node mesh, I get the best of everything.

There is just one drawback to using TP-Link’s mesh routers, and that’s the fact that you can no longer configure them from a computer: You have to use its phone app. While it’s actually very easy to use, networking specialists won’t like the basicness of it all, and few people will like how TP-Link sticks some features behind a paywall.

But now that I have it all set up, with various networks for guests and IoT devices, and main PCs tucked away safely in the network, I rarely go anywhere near the app now. Instead, I just enjoy perfect downloads on my gaming rigs and a perfect Wi-Fi connection everywhere in the house.