Customer Ratings & Reviews

Very fast. Does not have the range of my old unit.

I got it to work (with a little help from the manufacturer by phone.) It's work well. I'm pleased.

It's just okay. It's in the center of my house and it won't reach my detached garage. I had to get a wifi extender.

Great WiFi 7 router for the price, only the app is very bad for advanced setup options

great router for the price and made a better connection than my ATT Gateway

Works like a charm. Exactly how its supposed to. Great product for the price.

Just what I needed. Easy to set up and love the MESH network. No complaints

Expecting better. This TP Archer Wi-fi 7 keeps buffering, and it does not have the speed my 5 year old TP Link Mesh D5 Router had. Very disappointed.

Amazing product, WiFi is stronger farther, highly recommended

Works great as a router. Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah.

I bought this router to replace my Google Nest, but the coverage is actually worse. My son can’t get a stable connection for his PS5 even in the next room—latency is a constant issue. The parental controls were one of the main reasons I chose this router, but they’ve been a major disappointment. The app frequently fails to recognize that a router is even connected, and it often doesn’t register my paid subscription for the “premium control” features. Overall, I regret switching to this router. The performance, reliability, and app experience are all below expectations.

I replaced an old router (Nighthawk) with this, thinking obviously this would work great because costs $200. Nope, gaming was super spikey, almost unplayable. Replaced with old router, spikes went away. Bought a new ASUS router, also running like butter. Maybe okay for non-gaming?

My ISP upgraded my 1 gig to a 2 gig connection recently. The ISP rental did well but I wanted to adjust QOS and have 2.5 gig ports to utilize my connection. Sometimes the Wifi limits my speeds down to a bare 10 Mbps download/upload. Turning QOS on or off doesnt change this. Also I wanted to use the limit speed feature for certain devices and it just crashes the Internet connection for that device all together. I contacted TP Link support and they deem the router defective. Very disappointed

Do not buy customer service sucks will have you on hold for hours technicians not trained do troubleshoot, minor troubleshooting errors

Thought a new router would make a bigger difference. Heard about WiFi 7 and expected more of a difference. The Synology router worked but after 6 years thought I should switch. Maybe that was a mistake.

The products range is very bad .it works worst then the generic product u get with the connection from the provided .will not recommend

Doesn’t have the range I expected. Had to use an extender

Ask the managers if all of the technicians have had training on handling Windows 10 and 11 on the same router so they can share files with each other

I'm not sure it's installed correctly. The Geek Squad tech set it up, but I have some questions. I'm not sure if he coordinated the router to the WiFi extender we bought from Best Buy previously.

This router packs a lot of features into a single package. It has nearly all “Best Practice” recommendations for a home router. This includes WiFi 7, end point security reviews, separate IOT & separate guest network, as well as a VPN client option. Many of these features are implemented effectively, but some are less than they could be. WiFI 7 allows for several enhancements that increase speeds throughout your house. For this router, this means you can use it effectively in areas where you might otherwise need a mesh router for. I was able to max out my download speed 3 rooms and 1 level away from the router. However, upload speed was more limited. I got the 300 Mbs speed with only a couple of devices on the router. After adding all my light switches, and similar devices, speeds dropped considerably. This made sense as the network is generally drop to the slowest supported speed when devices of different types are connected. TP Link has a solution: Enable the IOT (Internet of Things) network and your speed problems disappear! After reconnecting my lights, door locks, and cameras, and printer to the IOT network, speeds on the main network went back to what I had first experienced. They stayed this way over multiple days of testing while the IOT devices had no reliability issues. This feature alone is probably worth the price, as all devices can share the network without slowing each other. The Archer BE6500 has other useful features as well. A guest network can be set up in addition to the IOT. Both the IOT network and Guest network can be set up to use either 1Ghz or 5Ghz bands. They can be set to use both interchangeably by setting the network name the same for both bands. While TP Link supports some channel size expansion, it’s not as large as the specs allow. The router uses 80 Hz channels instead fo 160Hz or 320Hz. This constrains the maximum link speeds, but doesn’t impact every day usage as my internet connection is far slower than the maximum WiFi connection this router allows. This router is very useful for those looking to utilize a whole house VPN. You can configure the router to act as VPN client. All (or selected) clients connected to the router can be set up to use the VPN by default. This allow usage by devices that don’t normally allow VPNs (like streaming devices). I tried this with my Fire TV stick, and it worked perfectly for both Netflix and MLB. Hulu & Disney didn’t like the VPN. Fortunately, it’s an easy configuration to turn it off, without requiring swapping any wires. Configuration was pretty straightforward either through the web or with the Tether app that TP link suggests you use. It was not as reliable as the Netgear app I used with my previous router, but still did the job for all the settings I wanted. The only challenge was that it occasionally disconnected. VPN setting is only available when logged in locally. The app would sometimes connect locally and sometimes through the cloud. Connecting through the web was reliable, however, and is how I configured the router most times. This router is capable of “easy mesh” connections with mesh satellites made by TP Link or potentially others. The satellites I have are for Netgear and Linksys. They did not connect to the TP Link router. As the router provides high throughput, even distant from the base in my house, I’m not worried about satellite usage. Overall, this is a very high value router beyond just the WiFi 7 capability. It’s well worth the price as I expect to have it running the network in my house for many years to come.