Customer Ratings & Reviews

Was very easy to install. And convenient (straight to the outlet )

Easy to install and works great we now have wifi in our kitchen. It use to be a dead spot.

Does what is advertised to do. Simple to use and hookup.

I was expecting better coverage from this unit. But I'm only getting about 5Mbps. It's located in my garage not my house, so I'm not sure if it’s because of the signal strength or just a weak hardware. Setup was easy.

Helps with all TV’s in household, would recommend.

So far so good. Was reasonably easy to find in the store and again, working fine so far.

Was hard to set it up and it doesn’t work all the time

Works just as described. No issues, easy to set up.

i dunno, it worked okay but was expensive and missing key features needed for consistent mesh like behavior. without a dedicated backchannel, if the makn wifi signal drops, users are left with strong signal but no connectivity. buyer beware. tested with a TP Linl BE5000 router. all tp link was returned and replaced with a cheaper and more stable Orbi660 mesh

Seems to work great for about 20 minutes then I loose connection and have to start again. Tried all the troubleshooting steps and nothing makes a difference.

great for larger homes that has a lot of coverage area

When we got it it worked but know it just doesn’t work

Tried linking it every way possible many times and couldn't get to work ended up returning it

The extender give less internet as my wifi from the sane distance

the range extender is quite a system but it help just a little bet but a wire make a difference as doble more

Worked terribly. It dropped my WiFi speed by at least half and that was when it was hard wired sitting right next to the router.

We used to have spotty zoom meetings in our office, which ironically is our biggest deadspot in the house. I do have a wifi7 mesh system with 2 nodes. However, I cannot optimally place any of the two nodes inside the office without evenly spreading the signals throughout my home. Since no wifi can cut through the fireplace pillar where my main router unfortunately sits (placed by Spectrum on a short cable), I am forced to let my signals crawl through a hallway into the office, hoping no microwave signal knocks the waves out. This range extender helped bring more internet in the office and it has been our missing piece for a while. Setup is great as I had three options and have actually tried all of them: 1) WPS button 2) Through the app, 3) Direct Wifi / webpage logon. Weirdly, I used option 3 first, however, I entered my password erroneously and there was no way for me (at least from my multiple navigation attempts) to edit the password so I never connected successfully. Then I did the WPS option which was the easiest, however, the Wifi signal was coming out as XXX_Ext and I did not want to have to connect to a different wifi in the office. So I tried the app route, hoping it will have the same SSID as my wifi system. It didn’t. It still had the “Ext” in the SSID so I just went with the app connection anyway. Router to extender established handshake, and the extender was ready to be placed in the office. Since it is a range extender, it is expected that it takes up a lot of space in my sockets. I had to place it on an extension cord to accommodate its size. Once connected, my devices in the office can already see the difference. Tweaks can be done through the app which made it more simple to customize for possibly varying home settings, like changing its more to access point, etc, and other options. I have gig internet, and in the office, I average around 200Mbps when the doors are closed. With the range extender, I was doing around 300 with ping improvement from 30 down to 18ms. So far so good, except with the downside of having to connect to the range extender wifi (EXT). But what I did was to hardwire my dock to the extender which provided a super stable connection to my network. After three days at work this week, in closed doors, none of my meetings dropped, or even pixelated anyone’s faces. I am happy. This is a very simple solution to get things in order at my home, without maybe purchasing another mesh node? The good thing too is that it can be used with other systems, so anytime I upgrade my mesh system, the range extender stays with me. What an easy flexible solution. I recommend!

As a user of TP-Link's Deco Wi-Fi 7 Mesh System, I was excited to receive a TP-Links RE235BE Range Extender for testing and review as I have a dead spot on the outside of my house where I have a sprinkler system installed. I have been unable to connect to it on my Wi-Fi network even though it comes equipped to connect to it. The TP-Link Range Extender solved that problem quickly and easily. The TP-Link's BE3600 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender (model RE235BE) provides 3.6 Gbps speed, multi-link operation, has a 2.5G multi-gigabit ethernet port built in, allows for smart roaming from room to room while staying connected at the highest possible speeds and has compatible with all Wi-Fi generations and devices through all internet providers. Upon the delivery of this new range extender, I opened the box and took out the range extender. To facilitate the installation and connection of the TP-Link extender, I downloaded their Tether smartphone application which made setting up the range extender simple, quick and quite easy. I was up and connected in under 5 minutes. I placed the extender near a bedroom window close to the sprinkler system controller I wanted to connect to. Voila! It connected quickly and I am now able to control the sprinklers inside the house without running outside to manually change its programming. Problem solved!

Did not work at all for me. It just would not connect.

If your home or office is big, leaving some spots devoid of a usable wi-fi signal, there is probably no easier way to fix that problem than with TP Link's new BE3600 Dual Band Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender. I had this thing up and running in less than 5 minutes and it provided meaningfully improved throughput in the far reaches of my home, when linked with a relatively new TP Link Wi-Fi 7 router. All you have to do is take it out of the box, flip up the two side mounted antennas, plug it into an outlet and use the WPS buttons on the extender and the router and get them talking to each other. Four little blue lights on the front of the extender light up and/or blink to show the progress When all of them are lit up and are not blinking, you are good to go. (The lights indicate power, a good wi-fi/internet handshake with the router, and show both 2.4ghz and 5ghz channels are functional. ) This is perhaps the easiest network device I have even installed (and I have installed a lot of them). It literally only took a few minutes to get it running. ( You can install using the TP Link apps or QR code in the included instructions but WPS is faster) There are no new network names involved here, as is the case with some wi-fi extenders. This truly is just an extension of your existing wi-fi network. So all devices that worked with the original system name will work with this extender without changing anything. It operates more like a wi-fi mesh node than an extender, and shows up that way in the TP Link app. Except it was a lot easier to install, at least in my experience. I tested throughput in several different locations before and after activating the extender. I was surprised to see the most distant parts of the house getting three to five time better throughput after the extender was installed. It probably does not hurt that my router and extender were made by the same company but TP Link maintains the extender "works with any wi-fi router" and is EasyMesh compliant. Keep in mind, however this IS a wi-fi 7 device so if your router is older and does not support this standard, your results may vary. It should work with fine with recent WiFi 6 and 6e models but anything older might have issues. My only major gripe is the extender does NOT support the new 6ghz channel that is found on many wi-fi 7 routers. And that's too bad since that frequency has a shorter reach than the 2.4 or 5ghz channels. So it could really benefit from a boost from a wi-fi extender. Also be aware that adding an extender could actually reduce throughput in some cases because of the increased interference from the extender, if too close to the router. I found my 6ghz channel took a hit when running the extender and got better results on the 5ghz channel. Which should not be a major concern for most people since very few devices now support 6ghz. But it may be an issue in the future. Also, this is one of those issues that varies depending on the size of your home, the placement of the router and extender and how much outside wi-fi interference there is your neighborhood. One other small caveat: Like most devices of this type, it runs 24/7 so it gets pretty hot. So don't jam it into an outlet behind a bed, cabinet or couch. It needs room to breathe, and cool off Also, a word about throughput. I have 2.5gbs internet service and this extender claims to support throughput speeds well in excess of that, at least on the 5ghz channel. But the truth is you will never see those kind of wireless speeds in the real world. They are theoretical. On my best days, I might get 1gbs, and even that is unusual. Still, even half of that is plenty fast enough for most mere mortals, just streaming music, movies and surfing the internet. So dont lose any sleep over the speed ratings. In the end, this is a great choice if your existing wi-fi system can't reach all parts of your home or office. It is easy to set up and provides much better reach than a router alone.