Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy to buy. Easy to use. After getting help to install, works great ongoing.

Great addition to my home network. All tablets, TV's working properly.

This is the best way to cover your home in wifi , for the money.

took it back and got a Netgear full size unit. Put it in an in-between location and signal works great.

I was told by my cell phone salesman that this might help my phone service at my home. I did not think so since it was not the internet coverage but the cellular network coverage that I had a problem with, but I was willing to give it a try. Needless to say it didn't help, so I have returned it. I can not really say how good this product works, since I was not using it for what it is made for. Sorry. But it was hard for me to install.

Give me 2 more addresses in my home, reduces dead areas.

Not bad but could be better in a large home (6000sf). Mine has not been 100% dedendable and needs to be reset at times.

We have a three story house, and we installed the device in the middle of the house, but the signal was too weak and it kept dropping the signal to our wireless devices. It might work well in a much smaller space, but it did not really "extend" the range of our wi-fi.

I use it in a large house and does not reach very far.

This product simply is not good, which is surprising from Netgear. It seemed too good to be true, and it was. A simple device you plug into a wall socket and "set it and forget it". Worked great for a day or two then I realized the signal was gone, checked the device and it was OFF. Reset it and tried a few more times but continually powers down. I noticed once it was off that the device was hot, so maybe it was a bad unit but I wasn't chancing it and went with an amped wireless AP instead.

trying to get signal from first floor to second floor.product did not work for our home. set up as instructed,would not extend range.

Wifi extender had poor range a d poor connection would not recommend this item...

Tried this all over the house but at no point did it increase my WiFi range

I am 15 feet below, one floor, from my Comcast connection and I do not get the signal extended...it does not work...bad!

We have a 4,800 square foot house and was hoping this would extend our wi-fi but it didnt make a difference at all.

This range extender is exactly what I needed to get a WiFi signal that extends the length of my property. Setup was simple and the plug design keeps it out of sight.

I really wanted to like this device, but in the end it was far too unreliable. The form factor is nice, and the setup was a breeze. I had no issues initially connecting it to my NetGear wireless N router. I made sure to place it in an area where I was still getting 2-3 bars from my main router so that signal strength upstream would be good. The router was in an upstairs office on one end of the house. The extender was placed on the opposite end on the main floor where I always got good wifi connectivity. After configuring the extended I found that the extender actually gave me a stronger signal in most of my house than the main router. I also wanted to use this as a bridge (supported functionality) via the gigabit ethernet port on the device. After initial testing, everything was working fine. Unfortunately, every couple of days it would lose the link upstream to my router. It would still show all indicators as if everything is fine, but I couldn't connect across the bridge and devices that had previously been able to connect to the extender could no longer associate. Power cycling the device resolved the issue, but only for a little while. Despite having multiple devices that could see the 5GHz signal, I never did manage to get a device to connect using 5GHz, even when in the same room 10 feet away from the extender. I tried with various devices from Lenovo, Samsung, Motorola, and Asus, and though they could all see the _5GEXT none of them could connect. After about 10 days of trying to make it work I returned it. I did see that there was a firmware update available for it, but didn't get a chance to see if it improved the situation. By the time I could have flashed the firmware and spent a few days testing it my return period would have passed, and I didn't want to be stuck with a $100 paperweight. In the I ended up taking my old wireless G router, put DD-WRT on it, and it has worked well so far. It's definitely slower, but since it's more reliable I think that I'll stick with it. I think that in the end, applying the price of this device towards a newer, faster router with a more powerful radio would be a better buy for me.

I was getting poor wifi reception in my house. Fios installed the router in the far corner of the house so I only could get wifi in 4 of the 10 rooms of the house (at g network speeds). I connected my dual channel WNDR3300 router and got 2 more rooms with coverage. I did not want to run cables and start drilling homes. So I picked up this extender. It worked right out of the box with the WPS set up. It easily engulfed the whole house with wifi reception (all 3,300 square feet). The setup was simple but it created 4 wifi access points ( One 2.5 Ghz N, two 5 Ghz N, and one 2.5 Ghz G). The access point does allow a stream lined set up where you could set up one dedicated channel to the router from the access point and then one out everyone. So what I did was set up the 5 Ghz from the router to the access point and then used the 2.5 Ghz for all the connections. It increased the speeds and reduced the number of access points. The 5 Ghz bridge was only a short distance from the router to the extender so I had the bigger bandwidth there. Using the 2.5 ghz I was able to get the whole house covered. I had 3 devices streaming Netflix with out any problems. To get the router and the extender setup to do this fastlane connection took a while. For some reason I cannot understand, every time I changed a router setting I would need to redo the whole install of the access point. This whole process took literally 30 minutes to get the settings where I need them. In contrast, the initial out of the box set up took less than 5 minutes.

We have an AT&T 2wire gateway in the basement of our house and were having reception problems on the upstairs level unless you were within a 30 foot radius of the router. I added this extender and it improved the whole house range including to the back porch to full strength. Setup was so simple and I only skimmed through the instructions and logging on using my WEP only took a few seconds. Sped up my browsing on the iPads and iPhones big time. No more frozen streaming videos. So far, I am very pleased with this product and would recommend.

I would get very little to no wifi signal on my 2nd floor as my modem is at one end of the house. When I installed this at the bottom of the stairs, it greatly extended the range of my signal. Wifi throughout the entire house. Easy to set up. Works well with my D-Link router. Been using for almost a month with no issues.