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

As an IT professional, I can say Netgear has been a respected brand when we talk about networking devices. Unfortunately this time I have to say this is NOT a good device. If you are looking to expand your signal, let’s say to your office room because you want to keep your connection strength, this will NOT do the job. It will give you signal yes, but your Download Speed and Upload Speed will be REALLY AFFECTED, I have Frontier FIOS, compare the pictures below. It will reduce your internet speed when you are connected to this device in more than 50%. So if you are looking just to have signal and some connectivity that’s fine, but if you already have signal but looking to keep your ISP connectivity metrics to have a strength convection to work at your home office, this is not what you need. Is really disappointing because after try a few devices I though Netgear will make the difference, saying up to 300mb/s but it doesn’t go even up to 50mb/s.

I finally figured out how to make this work without having to call Netgear. Now the wifi works in the back yard where before I had to use cellular data. I no longer get a spinning globe when streaming the smart tv or a message saying my broadband is too slow.. Well worth it.

Easy installation and paired great with my netgear router.

This inexpensive extender has solved the wi-fi issue in our house. We live in a ranch style house with a basement. The basement wi-fi access was non- existent and tons of data was being used by the kids on their phones, for school and entertainment. Now we have wi-fi access for everyone, no matter what room they are in. No more data overages!

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.

As always, Best Buy came through. Fast shipping and not packaged in a huge box for one item! I use this extender to keep in the hallway on the opposite side of my house where my router is. Before I was not able to use my internet easily. This has solved that problem.

Good bang for the buck. I use this at home and through out the fire house. Good for residential range. It took a few different spots in the house to finally get I right but it was worth it

My router was on the second floor. I couldn’t get Wi-Fi reception when I was in the basement. This Wi-Fi extender solve my problem.