TP-LinkTri-Band BE19000 WiFi 7 Router (Archer BE800) | 12-Stream 19 Gbps | 2 × 10G + 4 × 2.5G Ports | LED Screen | 8 High-Performance Antennas | VPN, Easy Mesh, 4×4 MU-MIMO, HomeShield, Private IoT

UPDATE: 23 May, 2024Now it's been awhile. I have to write: If something is messed up, it's NEVER the EAP225 WiFi units or this thing! It's been months since it's been rebooted! We have enough off-grid solar so the internet stuff and the comp room can stay off-grid all the time. It never gets rebooted nowadays and it's always there and it doesn't mess up! It has a gigabit (24 port) switch and two (8 port) 2.5 gigabit switches plugged into it. A total of 4 NAS's; three of them 2.5 gigabit dual LAN's; one with dual gigabit LAN's. And three computers, all 2.5 gigabit. And the Yeacomm 5G gateway is also 2.5 gigabit. Nothing bothers this thing. I'm still not using its WiFi, because of those EAP225's, which are also great. I read a few reviews, before, raving about this thing's WiFi, though and people write that it works great. The wife is Korean and she watches Korean soap opera's all day. We usually download way over a terabyte a month here. The Yeacomm connects at about 400 megabits down and 110 to 130 megabits up.___________________________________________________________________This runs a whole bunch of stuff - WiFi and LAN - typically about 15 devices. I'm not going to rate the Wifi because I'm not going to use it yet. 1) I have two EAP225's; they're VERY strategically located and they mesh with each other. Unfortunately they won't mesh with this thing. 2) I don't have anything else that will even do WiFi 7 yet.I got this mainly for the five 2.5 GbE ports - one WAN and 4 LAN's! I've also got a Yeacomm (Speednet) NR610 (also a very nice, but expensive device), and my internet is blazingly fast! Just very snappy. Internet tasks are usually as fast as doing stuff locally on the computer. You can easily tell when it's the website that's slow. That Yeacomm has a 2.5 GbE port and I was drooling at the thought of getting that 2.5 GbE speed to the LAN. (I also have a gigabit switch, a PoE switch [for the EAP225'sand the Magic Jacks that only do 10 MbE], and two 2.5 GbE switches.) Really nice that all my stuff plugs into this!The WEB interface on this device is a thing of beauty! Everything is very logically laid out, most changes, you don't have to reboot for, and if you know your network stuff, you'll find it nice and easy to use.If you don't know your network stuff, you're still in luck! It took its time communicating with the Yeacomm (LTE CPE Modem) (and a bunch of other devices) on the first boot - maybe 3 minutes or 4 minutes - but it configured itself very well! I have two Magic Jack lines and those didn't work right away. It took some hair-pulling-out time to straighten it out. But I've had one way audio problems with those before. This time, this router had the provisions to fix it (on one of them only.) That's not this router's fault; it's just the way it is. You need to forward a range of ports on two different devices and you can't. It took a very long time to get fixed. It was like a combination lock. Turns out the final step was some settings in the Yeacomm. The Magic Jacks now talk directly to the cell phone tower. One of them works perfectly and the other one only has one way audio when calling [mostly] cell phones. If I had another 2.5 GbE port on the Yeacomm, I could do it, I think, but as long as I can get calls on both lines and call out on one of them, I'm happy.Everything else worked like a champ with settings that this router came up with all on its own! The only thing I changed (not counting the Magic Jack settings) is making a bunch of MAC | IP reservations.When you set it up, you get a light show for awhile. Then the lights can be turned on or turned off with a WEBUI switch. You can also set up a night time mode and have them on in the daytime and off at night, specifying the times. You can plug a USB hdd into the USB port and use it as a very fast, very big network share. It's almost like having an NAS. It's been totally stable and reliable so far.It's a lot of money. I had to talk myself into it. I shopped for about a week. That should tell you something. Now that I've gotten to use it, I consider it well worth the money! I give their tech support 5 stars, not because of this thing, but because I've used their tech support in the past and I already KNOW it's exceptionally good! I have a lot of other TP-Link stuff. Advanced, hi-end stuff.Half of the 12 connected devices shown in the pic.

First step is I updated each of the two BE800's firmware.Setup with the phone app was easy. No teachiness really need than the basics in the software walkthrough.Results:I have 2 BE800's set up in a mesh. One on each floor of my house. I can get 1.1Gps (1.3Gbps Comcast line) standing on my deck through several walls & stucco (1.3Gbps inside of my house) where the router is on the other side of the house.In comparison, the Costco Deco 11000, with all 3 in a mesh, only gives me 400-500 Mbps on my deck, with the 3rd node right next to my sliding door.There's a guy on YT that compared the range and speed of the TPLinks (BE, GE lines) and the $650 ginormous "King of Kings" $600+ Asus ROG external antenna router and the BE800 was nearly as good (I got my BE800 on discount for $258/each...VERY happy with their speed and stability.....I just wish the software was deeper for my nerdiness).BTW, there's no "variant" of equipment mix that has allowed me to get consistently above 1Gbps anywhere inside my house aside of 2 BE800's in a mesh. I've tried the Deco 11000 of course, but also 2 BE 550's, and 1 BE550 with a monster GE800. It seems that having the SAME software and EXACTLY SAME(!) equipment offers the best stability and speeds to communicate with each other efficiently in Mesh. The BE800 is larger than the BE550 and thus larger antennas, and I think that it makes a BIG(!) difference. I finally feel I'm getting the internet speed I'm paying for with the two BE800's.So I'm thoroughly pleased. I'll update the review if ANYTHING other than great performance changes.(BTW, I'm not impressed with Mesh tech, per say, when you have 3 or more units. If you're walking around, you're inevitably connected waaaay too long to the weaker node before jumping to the next. That jump will likely result in your VOIP phone call dropping/stalling. It's a PITA. I literally have to turn the device WiFi off and on again so I get the strongest node. In comparison, with the two BE800s and its giant internal antennas, the strong range cuts a huuuge swath and thus no bouncing from node to node...it acts more like an access point for the 2nd floor, without having to manually switch WifI names...which is the whole point of Mesh....the "auto" thing.Also, having 3+ nodes in a chain (i.e. node 3 to 2, 2 to 1 Primary router) causes more lag as the signal speed echoes getting to the main router. A simple test was watching Youtube TV on my deck. When hitting the 10 second backwards button 3 or more times on my Macbook, the stream would lag and wheel starts spinning waaay too long, almost to the point where I have to close the browser. With the 2 BE800's I can quickly hit the backwards button countless times and acts PERFECTLY/SNAPPILY! Again, less "node lag" (and much more speed!) as I have two same model, super powerful units doing the communication! )