Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy to connect, adds a stronger signal between bedroom and living room.

I use these things all the time to get wired network to locations where pulling wire is just not possible. Also useful for getting WiFi to that one room in the house where the main router just doesn’t cut it.

Not sure I really needed but it does seem to help win extending my WiFi signal

Working good so far, 5/29/20 working good. worth the money

I am pleased with my purchase. It was easy enough to set up because I am not a technical person. Instructions were clear.

Easy to active. Just plug into an electrical outlet, push the WPS button on the modem and this repeater, link your device(s) to the repeater and it extends your modem's range.

Set up is very clever in that you simply connect a device to it thorough it's in-built WiFi and perform the configuration. Not so clever is that it was difficult to get the WiFi connection to begin with. It took several tries at plugging in and unplugging the device to get it to connect. I then discovered that I configured it wrong and could not figure out how to reconfigure it correctly. I ended up resetting to factory settings and doing it again. I had the same problems getting connected to the device, but once I did so, the setup was easy. This device extended my coverage into a remote part of my property where I needed WiFi to work and has performed well for the 1.5 months I have owned it.

Work well, easy to set up. No further issue to report.

Works great and was easy to set up. It could pick up the signal from my router through the garage. The other extender i purchased couldn’t do that. I definitely recommend.

Great if one side of your place has a dead zone. I use this to connect my Tesla to my home wifi. Very easy to set up and move to another location

My router did not reach the back of my house. I bought this extender and it worked perfectly

It does what I need to get WiFi throughout my house

Needed a router but didn't cover square footage of my house. On Best Buy advise I tried this extender. When I am in the part of the house with extender sometimes my internet connection drops from the router but the extender still has full power. Not sure why

If you are looking for an inexpensive wifi extender, this one might be for you. Easy to set up and just plug it into an outlet where you want to extend wifi range and you are good to go. Thanks Best Buy!

It hooked up to the wifi provided by Asus well and the setup took only a few minutes. The added ethernet port is a bonus.

The way my house is arranged my Internet comes into the living room at one end of the main floor, and the bedrooms are at the far other end of the main floor -- separated from the core wifi access point in the living room by a couple of bathrooms, closets, and walls. It works for the most part, but the wifi signal on the far end of the house is notably weak and can outright fail if there’s any nearby electrical interference like a hairdryer in use. So I decided to try a range extender and the RE7000 exceeded my expectations. In a nutshell: I couldn’t have been more pleased. Features like Cross Band, Spot Finder, Beamforming, and MU-MIMO helped this extender exceed my expectations. (More on these features at the end.) Basic initial setup can literally be push-button simple. The web interface is uncluttered but functional and provides some insightful tools and stats to diagnose signal which, combined with the signal indicator LED, take the guesswork out of optimal placement. Not in a nutshell: The RE7000 supports two modes of operation -- as a wireless range extender, or as a wired range extender using its single gigabit Ethernet port. The primary difference is in how the RE7000 gets its connection to the core network that you want to extend. You’ll get optimal performance potential if you have the luxury or skill to have an Ethernet cable for that, but the wireless range extender option is tidy and convenient when a wired backhaul is not desired or feasible. I went the wireless extender route because, in this case, I needed tidy and portable over raw performance. If you go the wireless route, the gigabit Ethernet port can be used to connect wired devices on the extended side of the network. I did and it works very well to support a laptop and even a bandwidth hungry IPTV. Basic setup is simple -- Just plug it into a wall outlet somewhere part-way between your core wifi, where you still get at least a decent wifi signal, and the area into which you want to extend your wifi network. The signal indicator LED on the unit helps with that -- Green = good, Orange = so-so, Red = no-no. The RE7000 supports two methods of connecting to your existing network -- use of WPS buttons or via a wizard through a browser at its initial default IP, http://192.168.1.1. The included instructions are clear and simple so I won’t repeat them here, just walk through them carefully for whichever method you’re comfortable with. I did the browser setup wizard method because I’m the kind of guy that likes to see all my options and tweak the defaults. Even so, the browser method took just a few minutes. The WPS method would probably have been even quicker if just a bit less configurable. When you’re done you’ll end up with one more new wifi networks, by default named after your original wifi network(s) with _Ext appended, though you can edit this name through the web interface if you’d rather. You can make it the same wifi name and key as your existing wifi if you want but it makes it a little less clear to tell later whether your devices are using the extender or not. It’s a personal choice, go with what makes sense to you. I prefer to use different names for the extended networks so that I can tell at a glance when my devices are switched over to using the stronger extended signal or if they are clinging to the weaker signal from the living room. The end result: I was expecting improved signal and reliability at the extended end of the house at the expense of overall performance because I knew that devices on the extended network would now be going through the RE7000 as a middleman. The last thing I expected was to actually get IMPROVED performance, but that’s exactly what happened -- repeated speed tests showed my laptop wifi performance improved about 25% when going through the RE7000 from the bedroom vs when I’m in the living room just 20 feet of open air away from and wifi-connected directly to the core. I repeated the comparison several times because I didn’t believe it at first, but after doing some research I think it happens because the RE7000 supports advanced Beamforming and Cross Band. in some cases like mine, it boils down to that the RE7000 actually mediates communication between my laptop and the core wifi better than they talk directly to each other. If I move the RE7000 much further away to where the LED signal indicator is just “orange” I lose that 25% improvement and then some pretty quickly. Beamforming means the device doesn’t just send equal signal in all directions, but tries to focus the signal in the direction of each device it’s communicating with. Cross Band is a feature where, If the RE7000 has a dual band connection to your core wifi, it tries to dynamically determine which wireless band provides the most efficient backhaul. If you’d rather specify the backhaul band yourself you can do that through the web interface. Spot Finder is a feature of both the web interface and the signal indicator on the face of the unit which visually shows you how optimally the RE7000 is placed in relation to your core wifi.. It lets you know if you have a good connection the core wifi you’re trying to extend. You can get pretty specific signal info through the web interface, or you can get close enough by just checking the signal indicator on the RE7000 face -- if it’s green you know you have a strong-enough wireless backhaul; if it’s orange it’s connection to the core is less than optimal; and if it’s red then it can’t see the core wifi at all. After initial setup this helped me quickly pick an optimal outlet as my first outlet choice produced a usable but slower orange connection. I changed outlets to a different wall of the same room and it came up solid green. Finally, the RE7000 supports MU-MIMO (Multi User) which means it is optimized for true simultaneous communication to multiple devices. Compare that to SU-MIMO (Single User), which is what most older generation wifi devices support, which gives the impression of serving multiple devices at the same time but is really just very quickly servicing them each individually. To fully benefit from MU-MIMO your connected devices need to be MU-MIMO compliant as well. I don’t personally have any other MU-MIMO devices but it’s nice to see the RE7000 is future-proofed to support them if/when I do!

Easy setup to extend your WiFi range in your home.

I cabled, via cat6 ethernet, a connection 250 ft to the house next door. The device then became the WiFi Outlet for the devices in the house. The WiFi connection in the house is 150Mbps, the same speed as the main router. Excellent!

My friend did the actual wifi connection for me because he is a bit more of a tekkie. The range is definitely extended to a bigger part of my house but doesn't cover it all easily. My house is long, has an upstairs and a lower level as well. It may be too much. I moved the device around to different areas but ended up where I had an extender before. A decent product just may not be the best for my house.

I purchased this extender for an office application with multiple rooms. The WiFi router we have is the same mfg so it seemed like a smart purchase. Very easy to install and works very well!