
Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars with 77 reviews
4.6- Speed (13)
- Ease of use (12)
- Performance (11)
- Range (10)
- Signal Strength (8)
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- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Connection Is Incredibly Stable
To keep this brief, I would 110% recommend this router. I live in an apartment complex with a supplied internet provider. I had one other router and the eero mesh before getting this one. I have to say the eero was disappointing because you can’t force 5GHz connections. The other one was just a cheaper Netgear router and was lackluster. Both of those systems had some iffy performance in regards to stability. I found myself buffering on YouTube/Netflix quite often. I only have 100 Mbps up & down so I started to suspect that I was suffering because of my speeds. I almost called to upgrade my speeds but I picked up this TP Link router first. Things changed after that. This router offers a very stable connection, plus it’s tri band with two 5GHz connections and one 2.4GHz which is great. I haven’t had any issues with buffering so far. I force most of my devices to use the 5GHz connections (unless not compatible) and it works like a charm. This is a great router and saved me from needing to pay an extra however many dollars per month just to upgrade my upload and download speeds through my ISP. I’m very grateful for the cost savings. My one complaint was the setup. I couldn’t find the device on the app for like 10-20 minutes. I ended up rebooting twice and plugging my ethernet cable into the 2.5 Gbps port instead of the 1 Gbps. It found my device shortly after that. The remainder of the setup was pretty standard protocol and not difficult.
Posted by aburke15
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Major upgrade with a 2.5G WAN port!
I have nothing bad to say about this router! Coverage is amazing in my 2,000+ sqf house! Had to do some tweaking with the wifi to get gigibit speeds but overall amazing router!
Posted by Blakeman
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great router!
Went from using a suddenlink router to this router and it’s night and day difference. The 5g bands are blazing fast inside the house (upstairs and down) but only 2.4g stays connected across the backyard and out to the street, but that’s to be expected due to 5g limited range. I shopped for a router for a month (mesh routers, Wi-Fi extenders, and everything else) and this router works perfect. Make sure you connect with a good modem
Posted by Bazookahead
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Needs fine tuning for some older devices
I have had TP-Link routers for years. This was to upgrade our AC1900, which still works but wifi speeds were not as good as they could be. Most of devices are new, however beware. In our case, I had to return this. The software is super easy to use and gets setup very quick. The bad, if you have any old 2.4ghz device that can not be manually setup then you might have a probably with it getting to connect. The TP-link software while great, this model does not have any fine tuning. We have to older smart devices that do not like smart connect or the wifi band ssid sharing. There are some ways around this issue, but then the smart connect feature of most wifi6 devices is useless. With this tri-band you can create 3 separate ssids that will get your older and new devices up and running, the problem is now they are all potentially on separate networks. That's the kicker. If you have different devices on 3 different networks then when it comes to using wifi apps you have to switch ssids to connect with those devices. Very annoying and well with the older AC1900 router that wasn't a problem. If you are a tuner, this Archer 3200 is not for you, unless you change the software to DD-WRT which nulls your warranty.
Posted by Pinchel
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good buy
The only reason I’m not giving it 5 stars is for me a little confusing to set up to my modem and get everything up online. I live in the country and only have satellite internet which really sucks, also I have several dead spots important my house. Once I got this set up and working I no longer have any dead spots in my house and internet is a little faster. To me it was worth the money. If you have satellite internet I recommend this.
Posted by Weezie08