I’m so happy with the TP-Link N300 after limping-along with another more expensive wi-fi extender that I bought a few years ago.
I just needed a single-band (2.4GHz) wi-fi extender to reach all parts of our 350sqm house and all parts of our almost a third of an acre block and this device does that perfectly. (We have 5GHz wi-fi enabled phones, but the 2.4GHz on the old extender seemed to work better in our setting and we didn’t have the need for extra speed so we just decided to stick with that band.)
I just plugged this new device in, it was ready to go in just over a minute (which was obvious from the easy to understand LED display), and it connected to my NBN modem faultlessly using WPS in another minute or so. The instructions were clear, easy to understand, easy to follow, and best of all, worked! The antennas are embedded and so they can’t be damaged by pets. And the device sticks out far enough from the wall to get my finger behind it to turn the device off at the power point when I want. I couldn’t be happier, especially at the price.
To be fair, my favourable rating is possibly a little affected by the awful experience I had with the previous wi-fi extender by one of the other big brands in this space. The instructions were as clear as mud and the LED display on the front was almost impossible to interpret even using the key (so in the instructions). It was double the price, dual-band and could work as an AP, router or repeater. Although I figured that I needed to be using the repeater mode, the instructions were just so awful that they left me totally confused me on the issue. I researched it on the ‘net but I struggle to get networking so that didn’t really help.
And the old device was probably faulty too, though that’s not something I realised until after the warranty period. The WPS option to connect to the modem never worked (on the same NBN modem I am using now). I had no practical way of determining whether that was the fault of the wi-fi extender or the modem so I didn’t send the extender back. After a lot of messing around, I finally got enough out of the instructions to get the device going as a repeater and so I thought that was it, sorted. But, after four months or so, the device could no-longer connect to the modem for no apparent reason. The only thing that worked was a hard reset but that meant having to go through the whole excruciating process of using the instructions to set it up again. But then, after another four or so months, it dropped its connection to the modem again! The cycle of setting it up and then having to set it up again several months later was repeated until I finally got sick of it and bought this TP-Link extender.
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