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Networking & Wi-Fi
2 reviews in this category. All long-term tested.
Firewalla Gold SE review: prosumer firewall that respects your time
After three months in front of a 22-device home network, the Gold SE delivered IDS, segmentation, and policy-based routing without the operational burden of a typical pfSense build.
The Firewalla Gold SE is the closest thing the home-prosumer market has to a turnkey replacement for a small-business firewall. Across three months of testing, it ran IDS without false-positive flooding, supported VLAN segmentation through a clean app, and handled multi-WAN failover. Performance ceiling is the trade-off; this isn't a 10 Gbps box. Earns 8.2.
TP-Link Deco BE95 mesh review: Wi-Fi 7 that actually delivers MLO at scale
After three months on a 4,000 sq ft test home, the BE95 is the first consumer Wi-Fi 7 mesh we've measured that delivers Multi-Link Operation at the rates the spec implies.
On a 22-client home network with a 2.5 Gbps WAN, the TP-Link Deco BE95 sustained 1.6 Gbps of usable throughput at second-floor and basement access points, with MLO delivering measured aggregate throughput on Wi-Fi 7 clients. Tri-band 320 MHz channels work as advertised on 6 GHz. We award it Editor's Pick at 8.7, with a caveat about TP-Link's ongoing telemetry behaviour.