NETGEAR - Essentials Edition N300 Wi-Fi Range Extender - White

I have a" man cave/office" in my unattached garage about 100 feet away from my cable company supplied Wi-Fi modem. It actually was able to reach this but the signal without the extender but it was weak and often dropped the connection or slow speed. I installed this NETGEAR N300 about 50 feet away. I now get great connectivity for my laptop. The initial setup is to: - Plug the Range Extender into an outlet (I put them side-by-side) very close to the modem. You DO NOT use an Ethernet cord to set this extender up. - Wait for the solid green LED power light of the extender. - Push the WPS button on the extender and another LED light will blink. - Push the WPS button on you old Modem and watch them connect. I had to look for the WPS button on the old modem because it not obvious but it does exist. - Once the Router LED light on the Extender is solid green, unplug the extender and move it into an area that already can receive some signal, (I placed the Extender 1/2 way between my office and the old modem) as it cannot "extend" what it cannot detect! - Select the new Network name it has created (it will be your old network name with an -EXT at the end) - Use the password you use on your existing Wi-Fi system and you are done!

I purchased this range extender about 2 months ago and it has never worked properly. It currently does not work at all. I initially set it up online at Netgear web site. Just recently, I did a factory reset and set it up again. I was having problems with the 2.4 band; only receiving about 15-25 mbps. My comcast internet speed is 60 mbps. The 5 band was receiving about 40 mbps. I checked my modem/router speed at 60+ mbps. I also tried the Netgear "fast lane" option in settings that combines both bands for optimal performance. This did not work either. I could not even connect to my roku device. Switched backed to split bands and still doesn't work on either band. I thoroughly checked all settings. Unit appears defective. I called customer support and they insisted the unit was not defective. I am currently connected straight from my router with a combined steering band that receives over 50 mbps. This Netgear unit does not perform to reasonable standards. I have set up many devices without ongoing problems. I would not recommend the purchase of this Netgear range extender. This was a waste of money and over rated.

I bought this to extend a signal from the second floor Wifi Modem, to the downstairs area and the outside patio. My setup is: StarTech Dual Band Wireless Adapter USB (Dual 5" Antennae, High Output) My wireless adapter alone can pick up two bars from my Wifi Modem, and I get about 20 MPBS stable Download Speed, with 11+MBPS Upload. Now, I didn't have a problem with connection drops etc, I just wanted to extend the range and get higher speeds and more bars. I DID get full bars where I had the extender set up. However, the speed was actually slower going through the extender. I specifically bought this model because it was N compatible and advertised 300MBPS Link Speed. However, no matter what I did, I COULD NOT get it to switch to the 300mbps mode, it stayed on 154mbps. I tried so many work arounds to get it to switch, and it would refuse every time. That is one issue, the next issue is how unreliable this thing is. If you're a gamer, I wouldn't recommend this AT ALL. You get connection drops, lag spikes, etc about every 5 minutes on a bad day, on a good day its about every 20 min. It's so unstable, it just isn't worth it. Bottom Line, I am going to return this product. I will try a different brand, not NETGEAR. It solved my problem by giving me more bars, however if it's incapable of delivering speeds it advertises and drops connection frequently, with only ONE device connected, it's nothing but a $65 paper weight. PASS.

I was looking for a reasonably priced wifi range extender to improve the signal on the upper level of my home. My modem is on the lower level of 2800 sq. ft. home, it has built in wifi and it has always been adequate for our cell phones to use anywhere in the house. We just recently bought a new "smart" TV, with some nice features available if my wifi signal was strong enough on the upper level. The TV is at the opposite end of the house on the upper level (basically as far away from my wifi modem as possible). Enter the Netgear N300, in less than 15 minutes I had it connected, plugged in in the living room near my new TV and "Voila'" ! All the smart features are available now. No problems with signal dropping from wifi now, signal strength great, speeds are excellent.

our wifi has dead spot on our master bedroom and rest of the house has great wifi. We watch chromecast on our master bedroom and we wanted fix the wifi problem fast. people at the best buy didn't recommended this product, they told me this thing don't work and i need to buy expensive equipments. they all sounded little aggressive on one product from google which was about $100 and I didn't wanted to spend that much money. I looked around online and read reviews on this product and decided give it a try. the installation was easy and works very good. don't listen and buy all the routers and modems if you have just one dead spot in your house

This is a small and easy to set up wifi extender. The easiest way for me to set it up was by having my laptop find its wifi name (SSID) among all the available networks, once connected it opens a special page on a browser and takes you step by step; WDS configuration didn't work, but that's probably down to my ISP's poor choice of modem. I had to move it around to find the best location between my router and an old Mac Mini which had trouble connecting - my laptop and phone connect fine. Once this was done it has worked like a charm. Remember that water and metal interfere with the wifi signal, I had to move my router a little as my water heater is smack in the middle of the apartment.

It works, but is a little slow. What's disappoint is that I thought it would literally be an extension of my existing Wifi-- instead, it creates a new Wifi login. For example, I thought it would simply extend the range of "homewifi", but instead, it creates a new wifi network-- "homewifi-EXT". This means that if I'm a little out of range of my main wifi, I have to change connections. And smart house connections are supposed to all be on the same network, so this creates issues with that tool.

I needed to strengthen the wifi in my daughter's room for her PS4. I bought this device after reading some reviews on Amazon and Best Buy. (yes, I paid a few dollars more from Best Buy but wanted the ease of service from them if any issues popped up). The one thing I did read is there were people that seemed to struggle with assigning the .ext to connect the device. Some said the manual was hard to understand. Why bother folks? There is a You Tube video that walks you through step by step. I am far from a Techie but this was a breeze and had up and running in minutes. Works great.