NETGEAR AC750 Dual Band Gigabit Wi-Fi Range Extender EX6100 (Renewed)

We recently had a video doorbell installed by our front door. The installer pointed out that because of the distance of our modem to the front door, the network signal was not as strong as it should have been for proper functioning of the doorbell. With some reservations, he recommended an extender. After doing some research I realized that an access point would be the better solution. I installed the Netgear AC750 using a network switch in my office which is close to the front door, Set up was quick, easy and snag-free. Can’t speak to set up or utility as an extender but as an access point it works great. I measured the signal strength using an app called Speed Test and the difference after installation of the AC750 was impressive. A friend with considerable experience in IT says units like this are usually on borrowed time after 18 months or so. Time will tell but I like what I’m seeing to this point. Great value (I got a refurbished unit) and impressive performance.

Good price and it worked, was easy to set up. Though this is just the first day with it its already made a huge difference extending the range to my bedroom which has to go through three walls and other electrical interference, I would say roughly 25 feet away. Being able to watch Netflix and youtube without having to buffer or any dips in signal is great. I have never purchased a refurbished device before, but I have confidence now in Amazon's certified refurbishment program. Not only am I recommending this product but saying don't be afraid of buying refurbished from Amazon as I was honestly half worried it wasnt going to work properly or not at all out of the box.

when this came in i was ready to return it and give it a not so great review. reason being is when i opened the box it looked scratched up and yellowed. needless to say i was a bit upset, then i noticed a small lil green tab at one of the corners. i pulled the little green tab and it was a plastic cover. once i pulled that off the scratches and yellow spots were gone and it looked like a brand new unit. BUT the instructions inside the box was a little sheet of paper saying to go to netgear.com for installation instructions and that's it. that is not much help and it took me a while to find exactly what i needed and to get it all set up. it was a bit of a pain at first but once i got it set up it was easy to connect to with everything else and it works perfectly. do yourself a favor and watch a youtube video or two if you are not very computer savy, and if you are then at least check out the netgear.com site and read up on what to do before ya get it. and have the site ready for when it comes in. it will help you save time and frustration. also download netgear genie app on your smart phone... it will help you out a LOT setting this up.

Inexpensive when purchased REFURBISHED. Install the app, restart your phone, follow the steps and Bingo! The signal improves immediately! Good deal! But it seems to clash with certain laptops and cell phones. Needs to be checked & restarted daily.

As far as being a used or refurbished device, I had no problems there. The product I received was, apart from packaging, indistinguishable from brand new.As a product, though, this extender/AP has some weird behaviors that made it unsuitable for my needs. In extender mode it modifies the MAC address of each wireless client to a "virtual MAC address". Why it does this I have no idea. For most people this won't matter at all, but if you use wireless devices, or apps or software that rely on knowing the MAC address of certain devices, you could be in for some trouble. In my case this was going to be used with several IoT-type devices most of which were part of one system that required the MAC address to be from the device manufacturer.Another problem I ran into was the extender wanting to assign IP addresses of its own, which put connected clients outside of my own subnet and made them impossible to find using certain apps. I'm not entirely sure if this was because of some glitch that occurred when I ended up switching between extender mode and AP mode, and I was able to change this after several factory resets, but I was surprised it happened at all.Coverage-wise, this Netgear extender was just OK. I'm sure it would be fine in a smaller space, but I have a fairly large house and this didn't provide the coverage I expected in either AP or extender mode.Overall the product probably does what it was designed to do, but clearly I was expecting a more straight-forward configuration process and more of it than it was designed to deliver, and it just isn't the product for me. In a smaller environment with less demanding needs it would probably be quite acceptable.

This product can be used in two ways. One option is to use it as a wireless extender which uses your existing WiFi signal and simply rebroadcasts it. The other way is to use it as an access point which means that you have an Ethernet cable plugged into it and it is configured to provide WiFi similar to how you setup your router. I only use this product as an access point so I have a router sitting in a closet at the far end of the house with wireless disabled on it, but it provides 4 wired Ethernet ports throughout the house. The Range Extender is plugged into one of the ports near the center of the house. The coverage is great. I get a strong signal anywhere on my property, inside the house and outside. The access point supports wireless N (2.4 GHz) and wireless AC (5 GHz), however, the wireless AC signal is not any stronger than the Wireless N signal. So I don't really see the point in using it. I disabled it on my router to save power since my internet speed is much slower than the Wireless N's limit of 300 Mbps. So if your internet speed is slower than about 100 Mbps, you can save some money by buying the Wireless N300 range extender instead. However, I bought this unit because Netgear claims that it has better range and it provides good coverage everywhere in my home.

Now I get full internet signal in the part of the house farthest away from the modem. This was a refurbished unit and works just like a new one. It was easy to install, only took under 15 minutes. I've had it for a few weeks and would recommend this brand.

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