Most other retailers seem to be selling this for around $79 so the OW price is a good deal. I was able to get JBHIFI to price match the OW price.
It is really easy to setup and I am now posting this from an area of the house that was previously a wifi black hole.
Does anyone have one of these?
It has been this price for sometime and I picked on up a few weeks back
It works for about 10 minutes then I struggle to get an I.P from it. Hook it up to both a Airport Extreme and a Netgear, same result. I took it back to get another but they had no stock. Looks like its back in stock so might try my luck again
FYI JBHIFI and HN both sell this model for $80……ridiculous
I picked one up and haven't been particularly impressed. It has pretty poor range and unless you have a power point every couple of metres throughout the house finding a good place for it is tricky. I also suddenly lose connectivity with it quite often. I've decided to just get someone over to wire cat6 cable through the house and then set up an access point at the far end of the house which the router doesn't cover.
It is really easy to setup and I am now posting this from an area of the house that was previously a wifi black hole.
Just be aware that (in simplistic terms) these things extend the range at slightly less than HALF the speed and bandwidth of what is available at the position that they are installed.
So they are OK to fix a black hole, but they will slow down any device on the "upstream side" which is closer to the main router. What I mean is that if you are standing close to the repeater, you don't want your client to connect to the repeater, but only to the main router… the main router will have a lower signal strength but will be faster.
Hard to explain in a short post - I hope that makes sense :)
If it can be used in access point mode, so hard wired into the network, I think the speeds are better. I've not done the research to verify, but the extender that I have set up in this way gives very good speeds.
Agree with the above point. I recently setup a similar device as a repeater and was getting poor speeds so switched it into AP mode and wired it in and now no problems. This Dlink model however does not have that capability.
in that case, I wouldn't go near it. I've given up on two totally different repeaters that would ONLY work in AP mode. I don't know why these things are so hard, but it made me want to punch an enslaved Chinese factory worker. Much like how I want to head butt a Swedish person every time I leave Ikea. Pretty sure that's not just me.
Add the complication of multiple overlapping SSISs and cross-channel interference, and you can get a really poor result ()like explained by the Britta above)
The bottom line is that, in really general terms, these devices are total crap.
Must have been my lucky day, when both OW in the Sydney CBD were out of stock, and I returned home without one.
I wouldn't say "total crap" IMHO. Not doubting the issues you have pointed out - but, they can provide a benefit to certain problems.
I don't have this model (bought a cheep on from Aldi) and it proved to be a cheep fix for the black hole issue in a couple of bedrooms at the far end of our house. I haven't actually tested the speed but for web browsing and streaming movies from the NAS etc, it works fine.
Also agree that these are not "total crap". Of course it has its limitations as some have outlined.
I bought this because I am visiting my folks in WA and the guest bedroom was a black hole. After getting one of these I now have wifi in the bedroom that is perfectly adequate for checking emails, general web browsing, youtube & spotify etc.
Total crap in most cases. I'm using two (different brands) effectively. One is in Access Point mode in the lounge, so hard wired into the network (router two floors below) and then transmitting the wifi signal - works very well and very reliably. The other is on the roof / 4th floor, where there is no hard wires, acting as a normal repeater. No other option in that case and it provides 'enough' connectivity for me to hook into the wifi network and control the sound system on the roof. Otherwise, I would really, really avoid using these things as they are a bastard to set up and configure in a stable way.
what's the difference compared to this (aside from the brand)?
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Dlink has a 'reset' button, Netgear has an 'on/off' button :) otherwise not a lot of difference, they're both 2.4GHz and have internal antennas. If you don't need a compact unit it's worth considering one with external antennas for better range.
Thanks, bought one for a relative.
Their double storey house which couldn't be covered by their ISP provided modem/router, now has access because of this repeater.
Easy set up too. I pressed the WPS button on router, pressed the WPS button on this, and it connected. The box came with a card with the dlink's network name and password, entered that into their laptops/phones, and they have internet all over the house now.
(I'd imagine if your router didn't have WPS button, you'd need to log in to the repeater's config, and update the thing manually).
Their top speed when standing next to the ISP provided router was 11Mbps. But from the other side of the house and upstairs, no reception at all.
With the repeater, black spots were now getting 6-7Mbps, which I thought was a fair result, given the price as well as there was no reception there previously.
(Speed was tested using www.speedtest.net off a laptop)
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