Amazon has marked down seven TP-Link routers ahead of Black Friday (November 27), with sale prices starting at $44.99 and a top saving of $101.99.
Three are compact travel routers that share a hotel connection across your devices. The Roam 6 AX1500 is $44.99 (was $59.99), the Roam 6 AX3000 is $55.98 (was $79.99), and the Wi-Fi 7 Roam 7 BE3600 is $87.99 (was $119.99). All three support VPN connections. Rated top speeds run 1.5Gbps, 3Gbps and 3.6Gbps, in that order.
The home models are the Archer AX21 V5 AX1800, a Wi-Fi 6 router rated at 1.8Gbps, at $54.99 (was $89.99). The tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Archer BE700 is $248 (was $349.99) and the BE770 is $299.99 (was $369.99). Both have 6GHz support, EasyMesh and 10Gbps WAN ports. The Wi-Fi 7 Deco BE25, built for mesh setups, is $99.98 (was $129.99).
The discounts are uneven. They run from 18.9% on the BE770 to 38.9% on the AX21, which gets the deepest cut of the group. That widens the gap between old and new standards. The cheapest Wi-Fi 7 home-oriented unit here, the Deco BE25, costs $44.99 more than the AX21, or 82% more. At list prices the gap was $40, or 44%. The comparison is imperfect: the Deco is a mesh unit, the source does not say how many come in the listing, and it is dual-band. Within the travel line, the Roam 7 costs $32.01 (57%) more than the Roam 6 AX3000 for about 20% higher rated speed.
The same effect shows up higher up. The BE700 and BE770 were $20.00 apart at list and are $51.99 apart now, so the step up to the BE770's 18Gbps rating (versus 15Gbps) costs about 2.6 times what it did. Neither the AX21 nor the Wi-Fi 7 units are guaranteed to be at their lowest price of the year, and the pricing can change.