Linksys WRT3200 + TP Link Deco M4?

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
1

Hello all, I have stadandart router with 3 TP Link Mesh M4.
I must have conected one TP Link Deco per cabel to the router.
My question can I connect wireles the linksys with Open WRT to the Deco ? But for this they must can MESh and the protocol from Deco.

My question, ist this possible ?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards
Porto

2

No, aside from google wifi, all vendors with mesh systems are using proprietary/ closed mesh protocols, which aren't interoperable.

3

Hello slh,

thanks for the help, that is sad.
This mean only if someone can hack the protocol or can root the Deco to put alternative firmaware.

Best Regards

4

There is nothing propriatery to their protocols as they are not really using anything special.
I have seen Netgears Orbi series and couple of others, and all they are doing is using WPS to make an ordinary AP-STA connection over one radio and use the second one as your user AP.

Both M4 v1 and v2 looks supportable as they are QCA9563+QCA8337N+QCA9886 designs.

5

I was referring to their OEM firmware, which won't be able to establish a 4addr connection to a wrt3200acm[0] running OpenWrt. The situation changes, of course, if the tp-link mesh clients were running OpenWrt as well.

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[0] as in, the wrt3200acm won't be able to become a participant in the TP-Link Deco 'mesh' using the TP-Link OEM firmware, regardless of the firmware running on the wrt3200acm.

6

I was confused now, is it or not possible ? I check the openwrt but there is no possibility to install opnwrt on deco ?

But if it possible I was thankful how.

Best
Regards

7

Its not currently possible as nobody has ported it, I said only that the HW in Deco is supportable.
@slh Yeah, I agree