Customer Ratings & Reviews

I am loving this upgrade to my WiFi! I’m a middle-aged woman living in a rural area where internet can be spotty, especially in the far corners of my home and out on the porch. Our home is around 4500 square feet and has stone walls throughout-making connections difficult sometimes. The TP-Link BE6500 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender has made a big improvement in the signal from our main router, and I’m happy to say it works wonderfully. My husband hasn’t been kicked off our WiFi since we installed it and that makes for a happy house! Setup was easier than I expected (I’m not the most tech-savvy), and the instructions were clear. I use it mainly to get better signal in my kitchen and upstairs bedroom — both of which were dead zones before. Now I can stream shows, video call my kids, and even get decent internet in the backyard. It’s compact and blends in well with the house. I love that I didn’t have to run any extra wires. For anyone living out in the country like me, this extender makes a big difference.

I tried using a multi-node mesh network a while ago (not by TP-Link). When it worked, it worked great. But the problem was at least one of the nodes would disconnect about every week or so, forcing me to reboot. That made it really annoying to deal with and I ended up getting rid of it. So I decided to give this range extender a try which is a less complicated solution for extending wifi coverage. Set up was relatively easy. For some reason, I could not get the WPS link set up to work…not sure if it was because of the range extender or the Xfinity router. But after a couple of failed tries, I then followed the instruction’s suggestion of downloading the TP-Link Tether app. From there, it was straightforward. The range extender by default generates a new SSID for devices to connect to, but the SSID uses the name of the original SSID appended by “_EXT”. If your router is EasyMesh compatible, you can alternatively reuse the same SSID as your router without the appended extension. I prefer keeping the appended extension so I can ensure the farther out devices will connect with the range extender instead of trying to reach the router with a weaker signal. Of course, it meant changing the wifi network name on my various smart locks and switches, which was a bit of a pain. There is also a single ethernet port if you want to attach a device by cable. That’s what I did with my TV which connects to wifi slowly and unreliably. Naturally, the connectivity speed via the extender is reduced compared to connected straight to the router. But this seems to be offset by the fact that my remote devices no longer need to tax the router with weak direct connections. So overall, response time is better and more stable. So far the extender has been reliable. Assuming it stays that way, this is a great way to get better wifi coverage.

Review for TP-Link BE6500 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender Our house has a cable modem on the main floor that provides a good WiFi signal to most of the house. While the signal on our lower floor is almost as good, the reception on the upper floor is often spotty. I thought the TP-Link BE6500 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender might be what I needed and I was right. Installation was pretty quick and easy. I just needed to connect the cable modem with the extender by plugging them both in near each other. The extender created its own sub-network and then I could move it to its real location upstairs. Once there, the extender improved the WiFi reception tremendously. The documentation suggested locating the unit halfway between the router and the “dead” zone area, rather than in the dead zone area itself and this seemed to be very good advice. Moving the extender too far from the modem made the reception in the dead zone worse. The extender uses the most current WiFi 7 protocols which worked to maintain better throughput from my existing WiFi 7 system, although the extender says it is backward compatible with any generation of WiFi. Easy to install, easy to set and forget about. It just works.

Reviewing a range extender is tough because there’s basically two things to review. 1. Ease of setup. 2. Range extension. Unfortunately this only shines in one area so let’s talk about it. Out of the box, this is nothing special. Packaging is run of the mill and includes the range extender, instructions, an Ethernet cord, and two disclosure forms. The instructions are fine for setup but seem a little… cheap or outsourced if you know what I mean. For the most part, this should be plug and play. You plug in the device near your router and follow the rest of the instructions. How close to the router? Who knows. But “close”. Unfortunately, with the size of this device, and the kind of awkward placement and three-prong plug that can only be placed upright, you’d only ever use ot on the upper of the 2 outlets. Unfortunately for me it isn’t compatible with my other large A/C plug that was already being used so I had to rearrange things. The instructions give a few options on how to finalize the setup after plug in, one is by pairing it with your router. My EERO router doesn’t have that option. Soo swing and a miss. Option #2 is to download the Tether App. Not ideal as I’m swamped with apps, but fine. Long story short here is the app isn’t TOO complicated but it’s also poorly done and kept having me cycle through instructions endlessly until I’d just go back to the start and the things claiming weren’t done, were but the integration has tons of area to improve. That said… frustrations and poor integration and app aside, once setup, this is really easy. The range extender so far has worked well without issue which is why we’re here. In fact, I was impressed with the personalization on the app to turn down/off the LED lights, set them on a timer, have energy savings options, etc, that’s where this shines. All said, it does the job, I’d recommend it with the caveat to expect frustrations with setup on the app.

We have (2) eero max 7 mesh routers, and we have 50+ devices (light bulbs, plugs, Amazon Alexa and a few other devices), that utilize our network. (1) eero max 7 router states that it can handle 200+ devices and cover 2500 sq ft. We were having some issues with all our items remaining connected or poor connection issues and we have (2) eero max 7 routers in 2100 sq. ft. We chose to try the TP-Link BE6500 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender to see if we could add additional support to our eero system. The first issue we encountered was the eero max 7 routers do not have a WPS button which is required if you are attempting to complete a mesh system. Eero does not utilize WPS, for security purposes, they only use WPA2 and WPA3. If I’m not mistaken you can bridge the units, however I’ve not had good experiences doing so. You can connect a TP-Link RE450 range extender to a Euro system mesh. However, it's important to understand that the RE450 is a range extender and not a true mesh device. It will extend the range of an existing Wi-Fi network, but it won't create a true mesh network with seamless roaming like an eero, or other non-TP-Link systems will, so you don’t have True Mesh Functionality. The RE450 will act as a repeater, extending the existing Wi-Fi signal. It won't create a new, separate mesh network with its own SSID (Wi-Fi network name) and password. TP-Link’s EasyMesh is designed for creating a true mesh network with seamless roaming. If you want a true mesh experience, you’ll have to consider using TP-Link's own EasyMesh compatible router(s). We’re using the TP-Link BE6500 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender attempting to extend our network, however we are getting very little addition to our signal. I’ve moved the TP-Link to multiple places in our home, and we are seeing an intermittent slight increase in signal strength with some of our devices. With all that stated you must remember that there is the possibility of outside/inside interference such as signal noise that could be affecting our outcomes. Our home was wired with CAT5e cable which could be contributing slightly to noise interference. Our eero network is not consistent and could be contributing significantly to the operation of the BE6500. I switched the eero network to (MLO) multi-link mode and the BE6500 to MLO. This appears to have given us a better connection to a couple of our outside devices. The TP-Link BE6500 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender appears to be well built and may have more advantages for you than it has had for us. The back of the BE6500 does get very hot, not sure if this is normal however it I something worth watching.