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I'm trying to see if there is a way to force the order of connection between the 4 Deco. At the moment my Main Deco is in an upstairs office next to the 4G router. I expected them to daisychain in a serial way based on distance from each other. But the Deco that is furthest from the Main Deco seems to be set to connect to the Main Deco resulting in a weak signal
Have you optimised system on the App?
The only way I've managed to do it with the Deco or my previous Linksys Velop is to power them on in turn so hopefully the furthest one away will see the connecting one when it boots up before it finds the main one. It can be hit and miss though. I think they've both missed a trick not being able to tell the devices how they should daisychain together as a preference (or I've missed that bit in the manual)
On the app there is a 'Network optimisation' button in the 'Router settings'.
Thanks I don't seem to have that button
in router settings i have wifi, blacklist, update deco, advanced, wps
That is very odd - is it a mesh system?
Strange, no issues with mine. I have 3 and never even messed with any settings and the way I have them arrange din the house is as a long chain from the front of the house, middle of the house and back of the house and all seem to connect fine and show full strength signals...if I just had one node at the front of the house (the main node) then the signal strength at the back of the house would be deteriorated so the network seems to be daisy changing across the nodes. I'll have a look in the settings.
I too don't have that setting, mine are in AP mode though, not router mode.
When you say it's has a poor signal, is it dropping connection between the 2nd node and the main node? As ideally you want it connecting to the main node, the more hops between nodes, the slower your speed on that node will be. So long as it has a stable connection you should be fine. You'll need to either place the second node closer to get a better signal, or further away so it connects to one of the others. They only need power so shouldn't be too hard to relocate it. A few ft can make a big difference.
On a tangent I’m having horrible mesh issues - long pauses on the connection and the HomePod (which is about 3m from a node) doesn’t like it.
Is it meant to be worse than the powerline stuff I’ve got elsewhere?
Some devices don't like the seamless mesh so try turning that off for the particular device. In the settings menu for the device.