TP-Link 300MBPS Universal WiFi Range Extender,TL-WA850RE

Just great! It grabs signal where I though it would be poor spot because of wall, giving good speed & coverage over 5ghz & 2.4ghz as well. Just doing great overall & easy setup process through tether app.

All of the dead spots in my house due to limited wifi router range are back to life. A bit of patience is required during setup for non geeks. Once done, you'll see full range even on corners. Simple and fantastic.

This product actually works. Recommended. Pros: - Very Easy to install and configure - Great coverage - affordable Cons: - it did not recognize 5GHz. I had to add it manually. It could be something with my router!!!! - speed drops significantly in my case. I got >250 when connected directly to router, but a around 100 when connected to this extender. Still ok for me though

good product, good coverage, good speed. good enough for a big apartment like 3BHK

Excellent product, works flawless on dual band

garbage! worked fine at the beginning but only with a weak signal! Now it just stopped working out of no where.

It catches both 2.4 + 5 ghz. It was fairly easy to connect through the tether app. The reason it isn't 5 stars is because it is only 15 steps away from my router (same floor) but it's showing that the signal isn't strong. If you have a big house, you may need a stronger extender.

Good and quality product and easy to configure.

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I bought this product just over a year ago and it has worked fine since then and continues to do good. I live in a home with 6 others, 7 people in total, and my router is placed in my basement, as my brother was the first person to require an ethernet connection. Eventually I got my own pc and needed internet as well so I bought this to extend my internet to the second floor of my house, where my pc was located. I am currently using the ethernet port on this wifi extender and I get speeds of about 40 down and 40 up, mind you I have gigabit internet but I am 2 stories up so no complaints from me, and about 3 ping for in speed test, 20 ping when playing Valorant and about 40-50 ping when playing Apex Legends; I live in Toronto (Illinois servers for Valorant) and (St. Louis servers for Apex), extremely good for just $40. However, if you're still reading, you need to switch to 2.4GHz only if you are far away from your router as 2.4 GHz bands travel better through walls and travel farther than 5 GHz, assuming you have these 2 . You can configure this in the free app by going to high-speed mode. I did need to reset my router a few times as the speeds would sometimes drop a lot giving nearly 40% dropped packets but I'm pretty sure that is because of my router since it would regain its original fast speed after without a reboot or power cycle. Also connecting many devices to this will slow down its speed quite a bit, which is a given as more clients take up more bandwidth, so if you want the least latency try going only 1-3 devices if possible. Overall its a good option for a budget way to extend internet into the reaches of your house assuming you don't have any ethernet wall jacks or powerline adaptors are not your style. However if you do need more bandwidth or a better ethernet port I suggest going for the RE450, RE550 or RE650 as they all have a gigabit ethernet port and about 1.5x to 2x apparent faster speeds than this RE305. TL;DR fast for its price and use 2.4GHz if far away

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!!!!

Supera con creces la capacidad de mi red wifi doméstica. Salvo que la red sea muy potente, este repetidor es más que suficiente.

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!