Easy setup with the mobile app. Do the initial setup in the same room as your wireless router. Once that's done, it's important to place this where your wifi signal is still good. ALL of the lights on the extender should be green. Extends both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. This accomplished what I wanted- extending the wifi signals to areas of weak coverage.

Our wifi tends to only connect in the house. We purchased a ring floodlight camera that required a wifi connection. I googled best wifi extenders and netgear was the first brand to come up. The setup of the extender was easy and once connected, our entire driveway now has coverage. The ring camera operates as it should. Will be purchasing from netgear going forward.

As of one week in, we believe this extender was the right choice for our home and router/modem. Greatly extended both 5Ghz and 2.4 Ghz bands on the main level of our home. The full-bars (like the icon on your iphone) signal was extended about 15-20 yards farther into our home than it’s original range. The two-bar range was extended even farther than that. Moderately extended signal in the basement although not as well as on the same floor the extender was on. The extender works with the wifi networks you already have, and the it doesn’t add any additional networks like some extenders do. The nighthawk app that you download to set the extender up and manage it is easy to work with we think. As of right now, I would definitely purchase another of these models for our home or as a gift. Note—wifi still slows and range does decrease during peak hours, however—as expected.

I needed to extend my 5GHz wifi range with something that was discrete and could be hidden behind furniture, and without trailing power wires. This Netgear Nighthawk range extender does the job well. I'm using it as a WAP, so have it connected to my wired LAN through an ethernet cable to my router. Only small issue is that the ethernet socket on the bottom edge makes it a little tricky to install a cable if you are using the other power outlet. If you have a regular plug in the other outlet, the ethernet socket is partially covered by the plug. I got round it by putting a swivelled 3-way adapter in the other power socket so that the plugs face downwards instead of outward (see photo). Works great and completely hidden behind a cabinet.

It’s on the pricier side but it’s worth the money. I originally bought this to extend the range on some Wi-Fi cameras. It’s extremely easy to use and the app has some cool features. It doesn’t add an additional Wi-Fi name so that’s a plus. I ended up putting the extender near my work computer and so I plugged my ether cable into it. Pretty nice feature.