Worse performance when upgrading to BE65 WiFi7 mesh
I upgraded my home network from a TP-Link Archer 9 to a mesh with three Deco BE65, hoping to improve communication speed primarily between my two stationary PCs (I do work a bit with video editing). The configuration before and after the rebuild is described in the two diagrams below. The Klumpen PC is on the second floor, the rest is on the ground floor, separated by six meter and a thin wall.
Perhaps it was optimistic of me to expect much better performance with the Deco over the Archer with WiFi5, but I was quite surprised to see performance drop significantly.
I collected some data with LAN Speed Test in the table below. To the left is data from the old configuration and to the right is Configuration 2 with the Decos.
| 2024-05-21 | 2024-11-27 | ||||
| disk | write (Mbs) | read (Mbs) | write (Mbs) | read (Mbs) | |
| Klumpen2 - Klumpen2 C: | M.2 | 2699 | 6815 | ||
| Klumpen2 – Komplettbib C: | SSD | 431 | 732 | 120 | 300 |
| Klumpen2 - Diskstation | HDD | 95 | 281 | ||
| Komplettbib - Komplettbib C: | SSD | 2271 | 1858 | ||
| Komplettbib – Klumpen2 C: | M.2 | 533 | 692 | 80 | 185 |
| Komplettbib – Diskstation: | HDD | 20 | 288 | 45 | 34 |
I haven't been able to find out if there are ways to get more detailed network data out of the Deco app. What I can see is that the 2nd floor Deco only has a medium connection with the primary.
Any idea about what can be wrong, or how I can get more info out of the system? I need to decide if I should return them and go back to the old configuration.
Best regards
Robert M
