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.

I live in 3 storey townhouse. The Bell Fibe router is in the ground/1st floor. Though I do get Wifi signal on the top floor (3rd), it's not as strong. Our work stations are located in 3rd floor qnd and we experience connection drop in some devices. My work laptop often has connectivity issues. My personal laptop drops dead with no wifi at all in the farthest room in 3rd floor.So, I had been searching for weeks for an extender which takes LAN cable as input and emits WiFi. In one of the rooms in 3rd floor, I have Ethernet wall outlet - so wanted to make full use of it instead of keeping the extender in the middle. Surprised that not many has it. After some scourging, found this. As soon as I saw this one has Access Point mode, I placed my orders. I received it in 3 days.Setting up was bit tricky though. The Tether app to control the extender is easy to use - but I had to navigate for some time to find how to set it up in Access Point mode. But once I found it in the app, I just had to set up name and password. The Wifi signals have been steady and strong. Since it is connected to Ethernet port for input, I am hoping this will be much more reliable in the long run too.PS: I also tried wireless mode (Range Extender) before going for Access Point. I followed all the steps. And then I took it to 3rd floor - voila. The extender worked well in 3rd floor, to my surprise. I didn't have to place it in the middle. Tells something about the Bell Fibe routers - they are pretty powerful.Overall, happy to have bought it. Worthy investment - I am glad I don't have to move our work stations downstairs or move it closer to Ethernet wall outlet which is not feasible. Highly recommend it!

As a systems integrator my application for this Wi-Fi Extender is a little different. I'm often setting up Smart Home Devices, Hubs, Security Cameras and Network Equipment in new homes before internet services are connected.This TP-Link extender pairs with my iPhone Hotspot and gives me a cellular broadband connection and a Hardwired ethernet port. With the hardwired ethernet port I can then plug in Smart Hubs, Switches, DVRs, Security Cameras and other Smart Home and Network devices. I can set up and configure the devices so when the home owner gets their broadband service installed and internet connected all the Smart Devices and Network Equipment is programmed and works.Set Up is very quick and easy even for a novice with no networking experience.While my application is unique and a little out of the norm this Wi-Fi extender can be used to provide a Hardwired ethernet jack for devices that require it and there is no hardwired network jack installed in the home and only Wi-Fi available.I love this TP-link extender. It's inexpensive and for my application it work great and have been a huge problem solver.Highly Recommend!Update: 09/10/20: This extender continues to exceed my expectations given the price. I works great to extend the Wi-Fi coverage from the Hotspot on your iPhone. Originally I bought it to provide a hardwired ethernet jack from my iPhone hotpot but I discovered the added benefit of extending the iPhones Wi-Fi coverage. In most cases it will double or triple the range of the Wi-Fi Hotspot from your phone. I was using my hotspot in a home today and could not get a good Wi-Fi signal in the basement using my phone alone. I plugged in the TP Link extender and was able to get Wi-Fi in areas of the basement which had only a very weak signal before. Again Hi Marks to TP-Link, this thing works!

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I got this WiFi extender for my mom’s senior apartment because her phone and Firestick kept disconnecting from the shared WiFi, especially at night. It was easy to set up, and since installing it, she hasn’t had any connection issues. It works fine and solved the problem. A decent pick if you need to fix spotty WiFi.

Wow, what a concept! I guess I should keep up more on tech trends, since I didn't even know that products like this exist, ahaha, but what a brilliant solution for "dead spots" in terms of wireless signal reach.Like many folks, my WiFi modem from the dreaded Xfinity cable company was stuck being near to the cable outlet. Since it not only talks to my TV, BluRay player and PS3, but also needs to be connected to my phone and home office area, limits on where to put it are frustrating when WiFi starts to drop, the farther your devices get from the modem. Put it where it works for some things, and it quits working for other things, and vice versa.Plus, back when I set this all up, years ago, I had devices still needing hard wiring (haha, seems so primitive now -- wires, LOL) so I actually wound up running a long length of cable to place the modem where, at that time, it was needed most, for wired devices. But, that meant WiFi signal no longer reached to the further realms of the apartment.It wasn't a problem, for years, but now with greater reliance on needing a good signal for smart phones and tablets (and avoiding going over the limits set by wireless carriers -- I rarely use my phone network WiFi when home wireless is available), over time it has become an issue that, like cave people of old huddled around a central camp fire, staying connected to the WiFi signal means not straying too far from the modem, which doesn't do much good as far as having a device that's wireless when you're stuck in one place in order to keep a connection. May as well have a wire then, right?Not being too tech savvy, I hadn't known how to solve my limited WiFi signal issue, and options I'd looked at, for "routers" and "repeaters" were frankly out of my range of understanding, even for what to buy, let alone priced within what I wanted to spend. Since stores nearby that sell such things had no answers -- being of the big store type with no customer service -- I had frankly given up hope, but nonetheless remained frustrated every time my signal would vanish if I wandered too far from my little signal area.Enter the TP-Link! Cue fanfare music!From what I could glean from reviews, it seemed you just plug this thing into a wall socket, it finds your current WiFi signal, and makes another one! Really?!? How awesome is that! Wherever you put it, BAM, more signal! And, for just thirty bucks? Brilliant!So, I ordered one up.Arrived, unboxed it, read the short blurb on use, plugged it in, and, like magic, instant bliss! Seriously, it was insanely simple. I didn't need to even use my laptop to introduce it to the rest of the family and, since it just extends your existing signal, any device that you have currently connected to your main WiFi will pick up the TP-Link -- it copies the existing network name and network password, so there's no added steps as far as accessing the signal sent out by the TP-Link.In terms of set up, I just plugged it in near my WiFi modem, pushed the WPS button on my modem, that tells my modem to let the TP-Link connect to it, the TP-Link did exactly that, and that was it!Skeptical of such powers, I then unplugged the TP-Link, moved it to where I figured it would best broadcast its new signal, plugged it back in, and, waited for it to malfunction. After all, what tech ever does all of what it promises, right? Well, it fired up, it remembered its connection, and faithfully started sending signal, bringing WiFi to previously dead areas of my little abode.Watching the lights on it, the device even tells you the best place to plug it in -- what works for optimum success is keeping it close enough to your main source of signal (in my case, my WiFi modem) that the TP-Link gets a good signal from your source, because the better source signal it gets, the stronger signal it sends out for you to use.So, in other words, put it too far away from your WiFi source, and it won't have much signal to send, meaning that it does have its limits, of course. You can't plug it in and expect it to shoot your WiFi all over town for you, but, within a house or apartment, it seems a genius solution for "re-broadcasting" your existing WiFi signal to a previously unreached area.As I said, thanks to lighted indicators that show signal strength, you can wander around, plug it in various test spots, and ultimately find the best place, which is one that brings your signal out as far as possible to where you want it, for bring signal to former dead zones, while still staying close enough to your main source for the TP-Link to get a solid signal to use, for re-broadcasting.I found that, in a spot where the TP-Link is only getting a signal of two or three "bars" (it has a lighted scale of 1 to 5, showing you the strength of the signal it is receiving from your main WiFi source) it isn't sending out such a great signal either, obviously, so the best place is one where your TP-Link is getting four or five bars. Then it sends a strong signal.To speed up placement, I actually found a "WifFi Analyzer" app on my Android phone, that has a cool beeping signal detector, for showing exactly how much signal my main WiFi modem is putting out, in any given area. I was able to walk around with that and find where my WiFi signal starts to degrade. At the point farthest from the modem that still gets strong signal, is where I put the TP-Link.Of course, as it turns out, there was no electrical outlet there (go figure!), so I ran an extension cord to that area, since my options for plug sockets was either one not far enough to give good signal extension, or one that was too far for the TP-Link to get a good signal to send out. I wall mounted the extension cord, tastefully, and I now have WiFi in the other half of my pad. Woo hoooo!Drawbacks? None, really, except just the limit, obviously, on how far you can go, away from your main signal source, in trying to reach a new area for signal extension. I'm not sure how it would work between floors, or across distances greater than my need. For me, I now have signal where I previously had very nearly none -- or none practical enough to use, really -- so for me, for thirty dollars, this has been an outstanding purchase. I went from WiFi in half my apartment, to WiFi in all of it.As an added bonus, it even has an Ethernet port on the bottom of it, so if you wanted to run a wired device off of this, from where you now have extended signal, it will even do that for you. Amazing.While I found no drawback for this, I should note that it does cast a mighty bright blue light -- for me that was a plus since it now lights a dark hallway area at night, but it might be annoying for someone if placed in a sleeping area, for those who don't like an instant nightlight added to their room.Reliability thus far has been perfect. I have even gone through a couple of power outages due to storms, and a period of my modem being down to Xfinity's usual screw ups, but in all cases, once my main signal was back up, the TP-Link didn't even need to be reset, it just found the signal again automatically, and started faithfully broadcasting.I think this is one of the coolest devices ever, in making our new WiFi world a more user friendly place. Maybe in the future, existing modems will be made to send better signals, but, for now, this is a supremely convenient little gadget for extending WiFi signal at an incredibly affordable price.HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!