Deco Mesh M5 System Drastically Reduces WiFi Speeds?
Hi All,
I am a general consumer in the UK & not at all savvy with networking & technology so please bear this in mind. I have 7 Deco M5 Units. I recently upgraded my internet with my ISP Virgin to 1GB & they have provided a Router Hub 5 that is WiFi 6.
With this Hub 5, I am getting around 1.1GB speeds at the Router which then drop of to around 550mb - 680mb around the rest of the property. There is one location however at the very far end of the building that gets extremely poor & unreliable - almost unusable WiFu signal.
To deal with this, I put the Virgin WiFi 6 Hub 5 Router into Modem mode & connected up all 7 Deco M5's & placed them in the various rooms & locations, including the one that I get very poor speeds at & at this location, I daisy chained each M5 in line so that they offer the best connection speeds.
However, I have noticed that on the entire Deco M5 System - ALL the speeds have dropped off dramatically lower than that produced by the Virgin Hub 5 Router. I have a Deco M5 connected right next to the Hub 5 & instead of getting the 1.1GB speeds that the Hub 5 produces, I only get anything between 120mb - 200mb max. The situation is the same at all other locations where the 6 other M5's are placed & the one placed in the room with the poor WiFi, I am only getting 20-30mb speeds max. This is an average of 80-90% drop off in most places & a whopping 97% WiFi drop.
I thought a Mesh System was supposed to offer the same fastest & most stable speeds in all rooms where a Mesh unit in placed so why are my Deco M5's performing so very badly compared to the basic Virgin Hub 5 Router?
I am really lost & confused by this - I was expecting super fast, super stable internet throughout the property with the 7 x M5's but instead have got something far worse?
The mobile Deco App says "Everything Looks Good" but the system speeds below vary between 4kbps to around 100kbps (green arrow down) & 11kbps (orange arrow up). The system is set to both 2.4 & 5 Ghz.
Should not all the Deco M5's be producing the same if not similar speeds as the Virgin Router? I would be grateful if anyone can please kindly help me identify the problems/issues & how to resolve so I get my M5 Mesh system performing at very best level & not 90% worse.
Thank You.