Deco X50-5G AX3000Mbps Whole Home Wi-Fi 6 5G Router With Sim Slot, 5G/4G+Cat 6 Mesh WiFi Router, 2.5G Port For Ultra-Fast Speed, 230 m2 Seamless Coverage, Works with Alexa, HomeShield

Update Jan '24 ---------------- Well, this TP router worked well for three years....until recently. My mums 4g router went on the blink, it would drop out every half an hour or so and became more and more frequent. No use when you're trying to get tasks done online. I troubleshooted all the usual things; reboot, reset, firmware updates, tweaking settings, others experiences online....nothing worked, whatever I tried. Strangely, I have the exact same make and model of router but 'with less miles on the clock'. I swapped the routers over at my mums, yet the problem still exists, it kept dropping out. Maybe it was the SIM? Nope, it worked fine in my phone. Ultimately I never got to the bottom of the problem. Other users echoed similar problems but with different models of the 4g routers....I got frustrated and fed up, bought a Huawei 4g router and haven't looked back. Such a shame. TP Link I thought had high standards, but this device fell low of my expectation. 3 years and it goes wonky. Not good enough. Update 3 Jan 2021 ----------------- -Only one minor problem that my mum has reported with the router; it does slow down after a few weeks and therefore a reboot of the router is required. After a reboot, everything is back up to speed. Otherwise, no problems. Original Review - Oct 2020 ----------------- I recently purchased this for my aging parents who live rurally. As most people know, landline broadband out in the sticks is as much use as a chocolate teapot. Before purchasing this 4g router, my parents were subscribed to BT for their broadband, and it was expensive, slow, unreliable, kept dropping out, and there was a 'fault' somewhere along the lines that - with countless engineers visits - failed to resolve their internet issues. I had enough of it and purchased them this 4G router. All I can say that this 4G router is BRILLIANT! A complete 180 from before! It has totally changed my parents experience of accessing the internet now. They can now watch HD films and YT videos without constant loading and buffering, and pages load super quick now. It's incredible! They can fill in forms and do their shopping online more reliably now than ever, and video call family which is essential for these Covid restricted times we live in. I bought them a GiffGaff SIM to pop in, let them choose what they want from it and they were good to go. 4G worked flawlessly from the get-go! __________ A few pointers to be mindful of though: Even though the product description says 'just plug in and play', I don't find that *entirely* true. There is an element of some quick setting up to be done before you can surf. - Stating the obvious, you have to buy a SIM card. And depending on who you decide to go with, you may well have to activate the SIM before you can use it. I bought a GiffGaff SIM from a supermarket, activated it online and then popped it into the router when it arrived. It worked perfectly. - When you set up your router for the first time, you have to go to the routers settings 192.168.1.1 and do some quick set up stuff before you get going. It only takes 5 minutes if that, then you're online - but if you're a total geek, you can rummage through all the other advance settings and set up the router to your liking. ___________ In short, this router is A MUST for those of us who live out in the countryside and have lousy landline internet. Also, in the long run, I very much suspect that this will save my parents £££ from going into BT's coffers, which was very costly and wholly unreliable service. This 4G router has blown them right out of the water. Touchwood, so far so good. I hope to update my review in the coming months and see what my parents think of it too. So far 10/10. Happy bunny indeed.

An internet changing experience. I was a copper line user before this with EE getting 31mbps download and 4 upload. The service was steady but not very dynamic and for what I got expensive. I changed to Talk talk and unsure what happened but the whole service went OFF. Now having a web shop I had to find an alternative and quickly..I had thought about a 4g service before..now as a stand in I had no choice. I ordered the TP link DECO 5G and it arrived same day via Amazon. Inserted a sim card I have in my van from Vodaphone ..I live in a poor mobile service area regardless of what provider but Vodaphone and 02 are probably the worst signal so I wasn't expecting miracles. Pleasantly surprised as the download speed saw 25 to 40 mbps... I thought maybe I'm onto something here so ordered again from Amazon a multi sim..the type that uses any provider so I could switch and see who is best...this service is available with the app..you just select a provider and lock it in The router itself is and excellent well made and even aesthetically pleasing piece of kit and its app is simplicity itself to use. So inserting the new multi sim I looked about and set it for each provider in turn EE,o2 Voda and lastly Three . To my surprise we ain't in a 5g area..but upstairs I just got a wiff of 5g signal..at 110mbps..I got more than excited!!!. So to improve on this I further ordered an external antenna the Nelawya 4G LTE 5G Panel Antenna Outdoor Mimo Directional Antenna to be exact. I installed this the same day it arrived...and BINGO...260 mbps download and 20 upload. Couldn't have been any happier..gone is the old dinosaur service from EE/Talk Talk..I now have an internet fit for the 21st century ...and gaming on my Quest 3 is just another experience the wifi link speed is a lot faster than my ASUS gaming router too.. As mentioned the router is a nice piece of kit,well made and with an excellent app . I have been using it now for 4 weeks and its been extremely stable and almost self maintaining the app shows you all sorts of data from signal strength to how much data you have used per day/month or total ...I have noticed with routers they kind of settle in and steadily speed have settled at a higher average than my first use...at times I can get a peek of over 400 mbps but likewise if the service is being hammerd like when the kids come out of school it can drop to 190..still far more than copper though . So to me this device is now my favorite gadget of 2025 and rightly it earned that title. In house coverage is good..I live in a 5 bedroom house and there isn't anywhere I cant get a signal..it slows down as you get further away obviously but even outside with 2 walls between us and 20 meters from it I get 80 mbps ...so for me range is excellent . Coupled with the exterior antenna its a brilliant set up and buying my Three sim with unlimited data and paying for 2 years in advance it cost me only £8.50 a month. I wont be going back to the copper line ever again...why would you. If you live in a good 5g area then this device would work out the box..its own antennas are very capable..and you can improve on them with simple rabbits ears anyway I only added my exterior malarkey to reach out a little further to drink from that 5g pool as covergae by me is poor. Thoroughly recommended peice of technology that you dont need a degree in IT to set up . See attached pics for before and after..you just have to love it

Purchased as an emergency router to cover for loss of home broadband (TalkTalk, again, and there's a 3 week wait for an engineer). Some tips and observations: The house in question (my other half's) is also in a mobile not-spot, so you might be wondering if this was a good idea. Well despite no reception at all (not even 2g, for texts or calls) downstairs, we found one corner of one room that had 4G. Fancy that! Turns out it's more or less in line of sight with the distant cellphone tower some miles away. Also 4G in one corner of the loft. We quickly tired of taking turns to stand in the corner on our phones, so I looked into mobile 4G options. Initially looking at small Mifi units which work the same and are portable, but actually, what we wanted was wifi around the house and the same features as our landline router. Some reviews of the small Mifi units say they have limited wifi range - great for in a car, caravan or around a table - but not for a whole house. And they don't have ethernet out connectors (critical if you want to extend wifi with powerline adapters for example, or connect a wired network item like a printer or camera). So that led me to purchase this unit, as for all intents and purposes, it's just like your normal landline router, but takes a sim card. I decided to stick with the network that works up to 4G on my phone which in this case is GiffGaff. Some reviews and some Q&A state this takes a smaller SIM card, it does not, it takes a FULL sized SIM card. But don't worry because assuming you're ordering a SIM card for this from your preferred network, most are full sized with easy snap outs for the smaller sizes, so all eventualities are covered. Now one tip... I suggest you set this up somewhere where reception is guaranteed, I did mine at home in the city where 4G is full power and full speed. It just makes it easier to get started, then install where it's needed and if it doesn't work well you know it's the reception. Installation was easy. Quick start guide included. Note that for GiffGaff it didn't automatically work, you need to connect to the router (in my case I just did it via wireless and typed in the router URL as shown in the quickstart guide) to go through the wizard, GiffGaff was selectable from the drop down menu. Once selected it then magically connected. Once done, just power off then power back up where you want it - no more setting up needed, it just connects by itself, like your phone would. Second tip.. ignore the coverage maps. The place this is installed is not in a 4G area according to the GiffGaff/O2 maps but works in one corner of one room. Initially 2 bars of 4G then 3 bars when I rotated it 90 degrees!! You can either order free SIMs from the various networks and try them or see where your phone gets coverage and stick with the same provider. The speed... wow... I mean you don't expect 4G internet in a rural "not spot" to be faster than the landline and yes we are lucky to get it from one location upstairs, but 13Mb to 14Mb download and 1.5Mb upload and 35ms ping... TalkTalk landline is 12Mb tops. That's measured, by the way, over wireless on an old 2010 Macbook downstairs in the kitchen so I am sure the actual speed is higher (I will speedtest on ethernet at some point to check). The range of the Wifi is really good. Fast connection downstairs under the router, and fast one room either side downstairs. Patchy in the lounge which is downstairs and two rooms across on the 2010 Macbook, but fine on my Moto phone there and the iPad (assume they have newer and better wifi chips built in). Fast enough to handle two people surfing. Little in the way of drop outs etc but that would be quite network dependent anyway. But data usage... OMG. My final tip. If you have been offline for a while and are using a limited data package (say up to 2Gb a month), PLEASE disable auto updates on your devices and PC and iPads etc. Because when they finally connect they will slurp updates and that can be 1Gb gone. One phone alone used 200mb updating. You will need to educate the household about NOT playing video. Or explore a 20-30GB plan so you don't need to worry. One downside of this sort of internet connection... you WILL get irritated when surfing because every freaking advert and auto play video will cost you money. An adblocker is a must with a 4G router. I never thought I'd say it, but this is a viable alternative to landline mobile in terms of speed and uptime, on all aspects apart from ongoing cost of the data. And it's a pretty useful backup to have if internet is critical to you and your landline provider is flakey.

Relatively straightforward to set up. I have connected mine to an external 5G aerial which improves the signal. We have never had fast broadband, it's a copper connection a long way from the nearest DP so our downloads were around 8Gb (best) and 1Gb upload. Now with this unit regularly achieving 150-200Gb download and 30gb upload. Like all routers struggles to spread the wifi around the house but easy enough to add mesh extenders to improve that. We have had this system for around 1 month and it consistently performs well.

I bought this to replace an aging ZTE MC801A that I'd been using as a 5G router for the past few years. Having fairly recently bought a different TP-Link WiFi router that completely resolved the previous WiFi issues we'd been having, I had high hopes for this with it being another of TP-Link's brands. The setup was incredibly easy, insert the SIM card, plug it in and download the Deco app. From there, the app guides you through and it was up and running within a couple of minutes. I've used this with both a Vodafone and Three SIM and both times it automatically picked up the APN settings and connected quickly. This has been flawless so far, providing fast speeds and good coverage. It's definitely a step up from the ZTE which was needing a restart fairly regularly to reconnect to 5G. My only complaint is that Amazon dropped the price significantly within a couple of weeks of me buying this for the Spring Sale! It's not cheap but it's a very capable bit of kit.

Unfortunately it was not fit for our purposes, or better yet, the ISP coverage was atrocious! However and even without using the external antennas, this little beautifully crafted router was able to get a better signal than the router provided by the ISP. It so happened that signal was still not enough to be reliable. Examining it I was thoroughly impressed with what TP-Link devices have always been consistent in my experience, ease and utter effortless installation, with the app affording an intuitive user interface. I was quite impressed with the level of manual settings tampering it offers. It provided a very strong WiFi 6, in the whole 3 bedroom house. Because WiFi is independent of internet connection. Please don’t be like my partner and sister and many friends of mine who like to wind me up with their inability to make the distinction between WiFi and Internet! Despite the ISP signal being pathetically weak, both WiFi bands expanded nicely having no problem penetrating even the middle structural walls and the small boiler and plumbing room with all its metal gear that would ordinarily be something one would expect to cause dead spots. The security and serious parental controls are subscription only after a 30 day trial, but the protection applied on the router protecting everything that connects to the internet through it is worth it. I use my own setup but the trend is towards getting a subscription based protection anyway, and on that front TP-Link offers a very affordable solution. The power cable is long enough to ensure adequate a distance from potentially interference causing power outlets, and the option to add external antennae, of your choice, which I think includes even the outdoor signal booster types makes this router even more adaptable! Alas being restricted in the rental accommodation punching holes though the wall to test that was beyond the scope of our allowances. Despite having to return it, I am somehow sold to the idea when the ISP get their act together I will be coming back for it, especially seeing how the one that came with the connection felt very much wanting in settings options and overall performance. I am not saying you should, but I will come back to TP-Link having seen how easy it is to use. I can only hope that my having to return it does not make the company doubt for a minuet that it was due to a failing on the product side or that my loyalty to this brand is compromised. I was so looking forward for it to work for me because it would have been great for peace of mind as it was intended for my sister who had not intention of learning how to manage it, but which would have been so easy I am sure of it. Plus it has the standard remote management options which I would be using to ensure her connection was safe and reliable. Oh well, shame really! Oh btw the option to buy in interest free instalments is a really sweet cherry on the top! 🤗

Bought this in the hope to replace my 12Mb landline internet. No FTTP in my village! I considered the Three option of an outdoor/indoor 5G combo but their website gave me a "computer says no" response. Did my research, best 5G coverage in my area is Vodafone, rated as excellent indoor and out, so got a cheap Lebara 30 day SIM to try. Activated it in my new Motorola Edge phone which gave a strong 4/5 bar 5G signal (indoors, not by a window) and a consistent 180+ download speed, excellent. Popped the SIM into the 5G router, did the setup, checked the APN settings, barely got 2 bar signal which varied mainly 4/4+ and 5G occasionally no matter which window I put it against. Most of the time the app reported that the signal was too weak, red light constantly coming on, speed tests all very slow. Wi-fi 6 signal to my phone was okay only when on the same floor of the house, floor below the signal massively dropped, current landline router easily covers the whole house. So not impressed, wasted a day tinkering with settings and moving this awkward shaped thing around the house to try and get a stable signal >2 bar. Other dislikes are the crazy short length of the power lead, overly large 12v converter plug, the Deco app arrangement of screens, the round footprint and trailing underside lead meaning awkward to balance on a small window-sill and finally shaped like a kettle with a missing handle and spout was certainly enough to make my blood boil. Maybe I got a dud? A device such as this should be getting a better signal compared to a mobile phone given that it has much bigger internal aerials compared to micro sized ones. Certainly not wasting money on an external aerial when the SIM+phone gave excellent 5G signal indoors, life if too short. Sent back to Amazon.

I got fed up with paying my broadband provider £36+ a month. When my renewal was due I saw that there was to be another increase in price every year on top of this and so decided to move to another provider. I signed up for three different services, all of which had no annual price increases. Sadly for various reasons none of them could be installed in my flat. Being left with no internet for over two months was frustrating me so as a temporary measure I bought a 4G modem/router and a Smarty SIM. The 4G modem worked reasonably well but struggled with streaming the F1 on NOWtv. I had tried to sign up for 5G broadband by '3' but they insisted that I was not in a service area so couldn't sign up for it. I decided to buy my own 5G router/modem as I have a direct line of sight to the local '3' mast from the kitchen window and my mobile (on Smarty which uses the '3' network) gets a 5G signal when in there. The router arrived, plugged in my Smarty SIM and after a few moments I had a 5G service. I am getting a signal strength of three bars out of five sat on top of the kitchen cupboards which on a speedtest shows as 200Mbs, three times my 70Mbs connection I paid £36 for, at a cost of just £18 (unlimited data) to Smarty, with no annual price increases. In eleven months I'll have recovered the cost of the router and then be saving money. Storm Darragh caused my signal to cut out for a while, but it returned just in time for the start of the final F1 race of 2024 which I streamed with no buffering at all. It's been in for almost a month now and has been rock solid. I bought some external aerials to try to boost the signal if it didn't work well but so far I've not needed them. It sits on top of the kitchen cupboards and covers the whole flat with no repeaters needed, unlike the VDSL modem provided by my old supplier.