TP-Link AC1750 WiFi Extender (RE450), PCMag Editor's Choice, Up to 1750Mbps, Dual Band WiFi Repeater, Internet Booster, Extend WiFi Range Further

I ordered this Wifi extender because I needed an upgrade from a tiny Netgear model that was only capable of 300 mbps. That may be fine for inside the home, but I needed something that could extend about 125 feet and still be relatively fast. I believe I got that from this TP-Link Extender. SETUP: Setup couldn’t have been easier. You actually have two options: One with setup online and the other setup using the WPS button on your router. Both options are detailed in the included instruction manual. I chose the WPS option. All I had to do was plug in the extender, press the big round button on the front of it, and then press the WPS button on my router. That was it. The extender took care of the rest. It found the router and connected within seconds. I then moved the extender to a location about 125 feet away from the router. PERFORMANCE: I will include photos of a speed test I ran back in July with my old Netgear and the speed test I ran today with this new TP-Link extender. You can see my speeds have increased quite a bit, especially the download speed. And as I stated this is all at a distance of about 125 feet. I can tell a big difference when I am cruising the internet. It is so much less frustrating now. Of course this TP-Link extender is a higher quality extender than my old Netgear one so it should be expected to perform much better. INCIDENTALS: This extender was larger than I was expecting. It measures 6.5” in height, 3” in width, and a little over 1.25” in depth. There are three antennas which add an additional 2.5” to the measurements. The antennas are multi-positionable. FINAL THOUGHTS: Overall I am super pleased with this extender. I am happy to have found one that is dual banded, fast, and a breeze to set up.

This is for the AC1750 WIFI Extender RE450: I feel like the way some of these reviews are being written it is making it appear that this extender is actually a router which is a giant no. I did see some reviews where they discuss this product isn't working properly which leads me to think it's a firmware issue or user error. Other reviews seemed to think that this would increase their internet speed over wireless, which is not necessarily true. Weak wifi signals will cause drops in connection which may make it seem like your internet is going slow, but it's really packet loss. So by boosting the signal strength you obtain a stable connection that doesn't lose as many packets which makes it seem like the internet is going faster when in reality you just aren't losing as much data in transmission and you're not waiting for your device to receive all the packets it expects. THAT SAID: I just received this product today and out of the box had it up and running in less than 5 minutes (I did not use the WPS method) and immediately noticed a stronger signal to all of my devices. THIS DOES NOT BOOST YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION SPEED. It merely ensures that your wireless connections are stronger to your router, thus giving you as much internet connection benefit as possible from your modem over a wireless connection. I cringe when I read reviews where people do speed tests and claim they see no benefit from this device. If this is you, you're doing it wrong. I went from a weak 5ghz signal (1-2 bar) transmitting at around 120 Mbps, to a solid 4 bar transmitting at 866.5 Mbps and have not noticed any hiccups in stability at that speed over the last few hours. This is on the farthest device from the extender through walls that have plumbing in them. I'm running 11 devices on my wifi network including phones/pc/laptop/security cameras and when it comes to the security cameras when I used to load them up over wireless there was usually a delay (device offline) before the images would come up. This extender has solved that and the images now pop up immediately. This alone makes me happy. While I'd prefer the device to not be such an outlet hog (You're going to sacrifice an outlet for this) I appreciate that I can turn the LED's off as well as use the ethernet port for a non-wifi device. For the price I can't really complain that there's only 1 ethernet port, but I wasn't buying this for that need. Overall so far I'm super happy with the extender. If it can hold up for at least 2 years I'd consider it a fair price, great product, and would buy it again.

If you follow the directions, this WiFi extender is a snap to get up and running. After I did the required setup, I moved it into the location where I was having problems. Voila! I had a strong, consistent signal and my reception problems disappeared. I would caution those who are not technically adept to be sure you KNOW your username and password for your 2.4GHz and 5GHz existing wireless networks. Without that information, you'll be dead in the water and won't be able to complete the setup screen. That will sound obvious to those of you who are experienced in setting up network devices, but in my experience many people never change the router default password for wireless. I'm also deducting one star because I have a minor issue with this otherwise fine piece of electronics. The shape of the unit requires that the plug below it, (in a duplex outlet) either be empty, or have a small, unobtrusive or flat-top plug. Otherwise, the bottom of the WiFi extender will hit the plug and you won't be able to plug it in. I was able to find a 1-foot extension cord that had a flat top that I used in the bottom outlet that allowed another device to be plugged in the bottom while the AC1750 fit above it. The Wirecutter recommended this range extender, and I trust their judgement. Immediately after installing it, my reception problems were gone! The interface is a snap to use, and I had absolutely no problems or anomalies when I then put it into it's final location. I also updated the firmware in the unit, and it can now also act as a WAP as well as an extender. DHCP can be left in Auto, On or Off, depending on your requirements. If you're just using it as an extender, you can ignore that setting altogether as Auto works perfectly and recognizes that another DHCP server is on-line. For me, since I don't need DHCP, I turned it off. One other feature I liked was the ability to turn the LED indicators on and off according to a schedule. My AC1750 is located in our bedroom. The LEDs are pretty bright, but using the configuration page I shut them off from 9PM to 10AM so during normal sleeping hours I don't even know it's there. Nice feature. I've only owned this unit a couple days, but I am very impressed with the coverage I'm getting. Hearing that, it may seem picayune to deduct one star based on the issue with the plug, but at this price, there could have been an option to mount the unit directly to a wall with an adapter and then plug in only a power supply, not the entire unit. Nonetheless, this is a well designed unit that will go a long way to giving you complete WiFi coverage in your home.

FACILE INSTALLAZIONE , EFFICACE

You will NOT require a degree in computer science or relevant networking certification in order to set this up, the app for your phone/tablet will do all the hard work for you, and the instructions are very clear as long as you follow each step and do not try to skip the first one (place it within 10ft of the router first time when setting up) As the room I was trying to cover is a bit of a dead zone I was unable to put it where I wanted in the house, as I also wanted to use the Powerline Lan feature for my system whilst extending the wifi for other devices. BUT as it says in the instructions the idea is to place it in a place that extends the wifi between the router and the target area, which using the socket outside the room it has done very well, only had a couple of drop outs but not sure that wasn't the site I was streaming from. The powerline lan works incredibly well, I have several others and have only ever managed to achieve half 5-6Mb/sec this one caps out my top internet speed of 14Mb/sec from a virgin 100mbit line. So VERY impressed with that, I have also had zero network drops since I switched to this powerline lan. Tested on a default virgin media hub v3 and an AC1750 router connected to the hub in modem mode, it had no issues finding and setting up the extender.

Very good product

The fact is, this actually is a pretty decent, reliable and affective device — WHEN IT IS CORRECTLY INSTALLED, USED AND MOST IMPORTANTLY… UNDERSTOOD… The reality is that in this day and age, most people have excellent base-routers in their homes. Even the crappy service provider ones are fairly decent devices. The issue with these things, though, is that they are mostly exceptional devices only when they’re using their 5ghz connections. Where most people believe they’re having connectivity problems and their routers need ‘extending’ or ‘boosting’ is almost always when the device they need assisted is trying to connect to their dual-band base routers which can accept either a 2.4ghz or 5ghz device, but in many, if not most, cases the device needing help is ONLY a 2.4ghz item. And then this is where the problems begin. Home dual-band router these days will almost always prioritize an incoming connection-request from a device into its 5ghz frequency field, even if that request is coming from a 2.4ghz-only device. Result of this is usually connection failure. And so… the unsuspecting person believes it’s an issue with their router needing a boost. Wrong! It’s an issue with their router needing a little discipline! Lol. Not a boost. It needs to be taught to recognize those 2.4ghz devices out there and then to immediately allow those devices a priority to connect immediately to its 2.4ghz band — instead of its 5ghz band. Most routers, especially many newer ones, don’t do this especially well. So… those routers need help. And that’s when and where this beautifully affective extender comes in. This extender will very specifically have you set up two separate extended bands… one for your router’s 5ghz and another for its 2.4ghz. Once that’s done, and you’re ready to connect something to your WiFi, and it doesn’t work the first few times you try it, then try connecting those things to the now-available newly created ‘extended’ 2.4ghz band. Or if you’re using your phone to connect an item with its own app, like say, smart plugs and/or bulbs, then you absolutely MUST switch your phone’s internal WiFi signal over to that newly created 2.4ghz ‘extended’ network. I guarantee all your connectivity problems with those devices will disappear. So what’s really happening here is you are making ‘visible’ your home router’s 2.4ghz network to anything that wants to connect to it, whereas beforehand, that network was very likely ‘invisible’ to you prior to using this new extender because unfortunately while all these new dual-band routers are great, they definitely do not like things automatically connecting to their 2.4hhz bands. So you have to ‘force’ that connection down their throats as-it-were. There are other work-arounds to get your home router to connect to those ‘difficult’ devices, but this is by far the easiest solution — albeit it does mean having to spend some money on one of these WiFi extenders. And it just so happens this is a really good one to do just that. Don’t blame your router. It just wants to dictate to you which frequency your device must try to marry with. It usually still is, though, very, very good at projecting its own indigenous signal great distances reliably. You just have to find a way to have its 2.4ghz band show up in your devices. And that’s what these ‘extenders’ will do for you. So actually, they’re your friend, not your enemy — especially this particular TP-Link unit.

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