TP-Link Deco BE63

BE10000 splits into 5,188 Mbps on 6GHz, 4,324 Mbps on 5GHz, and 574 Mbps on 2.4GHz. That's a genuine step below the flagship Deco BE85's BE22000, but still real WiFi 7 with MLO support across all three bands.

Every unit carries four 2.5Gbps ports with auto-sensing WAN/LAN, which is unusually generous for a mesh system at this price. Most competitors cap multi-gig ports to a single WAN port on the primary unit only.

TP-Link doesn't publish a specific square-footage figure for the BE63, but the tri-band design supports both wireless mesh backhaul and wired 2.5Gbps Ethernet backhaul between units, which matters if your home already has ethernet runs.

Wired backhaul is the better choice whenever it's available: it frees the wireless bands entirely for client devices instead of splitting throughput between backhaul traffic and your devices.

Winner for value: the Deco BE63 itself. At its typical discounted price of $300 to $330 for a 2-pack, nothing else in real WiFi 7 mesh comes close on a dollar-per-port basis.

The TP-Link Deco BE85 costs roughly double for a 10Gbps port and higher rated speeds, worth it only if you have multi-gig fiber or a genuinely large home. The eero Max 7 costs more and has documented real-world speed problems in independent testing, we wouldn't recommend it over the BE63 at any price.