TP-LINK TL-SF1005D 5-Port 10/100 Mbps Unmanaged Desktop Switch - White with EU Plug

Excellent product. Easy to set up, worked straight away. Discounted price as well, Happy days.

Really good product.

Haven’t found a bad TP-Link product yet.Recently switched to full fiver broadband at 900mbps and was disappointed to find I was only getting about 100mbps through Wi-Fi.I bought a Wi-Fi 6 router to combat this, but it turns out that Wi-Fi 6 isn’t very good at penetrating walls and ceilings.Got this little fella to give me a more stable connection in my living room. It was easy to set up and works great. TP-Link have a great app that makes it all very easy to sort.Speed is much better, now getting between 150 - 200 mbps. I’ll probably eventually switch to a mesh. But for now it’s very stable.

I don’t normally review on Amazon but for this I have it. Before the extender the speeds I was getting was around 20 megabits per second on a good day and now with the extender than an Ethernet cable my speeds have gone up to 400 megabits per second. For anyone that had WiFi like mine I definitely recommend you get this. The setup is easy as well and should take less than 10 minutes for the whole thing not to mention the price point for this which isn’t that bad.

Got this a few days ago, after a previous wifi extender just stopped working after a couple of years, and that supplier was pretty inept at offering solutions other than 'contact the seller'! I've tried a number of extenders in the past, many just not acceptable at all, and were returned for refund.It seemed impossible to get this TP-Link to initialise, and I tried various ways. So I sought online for troubleshooting solutions, and one was to download their 'Tether' app to my phone. That worked seamlessly right away, asking for my Wifi network password, and device to connect, and it was all set up in a few minutes.So I moved it to the bedroom where my desk is located. This is the dead area, that CAN connect to the living room router, but not consistently. In the bathroom next door it doesn't connect about 95% of the time. When I CAN connect my laptop to my router, speeds are up to about 140 Mbps. Now with the extender, I can get this speed but more usually it's in the 50-80 range. If the router connection is slower (like at peak times), the extender is always faster than the long connection. Works very well in the bathroom too.So it's an improvement on the inconsistent direct connection and much more accessible.Only niggly thing Is that if my phone connects to it and I move back into the living room, it doesn't always switch back to the direct connection [showing xxxxx_EXT instead of just xxxxx], and even vice versa, so I have to check at times that it's on the nearer one. That might just be my phone. But for the static laptop, this is no problem.If this stops working at any point, I'll come back to downgrade the review. (Oct. 24)Update: 18/11/24. I wasn't getting great results from this. I was due an upgrade on my Wifi from 125 to 250, so I thought that would help. Not that much. While the booster is consistent in providing connection, the speeds were consistently between 20 and 30! Just not enough to make the price of this purchase worth it. Returned for a refund, and the engineer who upgraded the broadband told me to get a mesh instead of a booster; always better, and solves the problem of switching between the main and the extension, as it's all under the same network name. I've done that, and speeds are consistently higher now, over 50 up into the 70s.

I'd say overall this is a great product and once you have it set up, you're good to go. I've increased my speed from 50-60mbps to 250mbps+ using this device. It does take a little know how to set up though as there were IP settings that needed changing in my case to get a stable connection. So in most cases, it may be plug and play once you've set up WPS. It's a big device but it makes sense for it to extend the connection well.

Great, easy to set up, works great, great speeds

Utterly useless, as all of these type of extenders seem to be.It's seamless apparently, well that's true as their is no join (geddit?)I bought 3 of these as I have a TP-Link Archer MR600 router so thought, same manufacturer, mesh compatible, should be a breeze. Took ages to setup using the WPS button, logged into the router, couldn't see the mesh devices even though I checked that it was enabled & supported. After about an hour and a half of logging into both the router, the extenders and various re-boots of everything, it was all linked and sort of working.Then we had a power cut a few days later and afterwards everything became un-linked. A bit of messing about and I got 2 of them working although I'm pretty sure only one of them was actually carrying the signal. One of them didn't want to know and was just broadcasting it's own signal but not connected to the internet so I left it disconnected.A few weeks later I plugged it in and afterwards it wiped the other two off the map. Unplugged it, and the other two re-appeared, Decided to re-set the rogue one and re-linked it using the WPS button. It seemed to link, moved it to it's proper location and behold, all 3 were now missing from the map.Utterly utterly useless piece of crap. I can't return them now so they will be getting the hammer treatment to ensure that I don't waste any more of my time trying to set it up again. So I am still restricted to WiFi being available in only half of the house, as I have been for years having tried dozens of these type of useless extenders.Update. 18/05/2023Before I change my WiFi from 4G to Starlink, I thought I would see if I could get these to work. After half an hour of re-setting , connecting, and trying to get the tether app to actually see what it was connected to (without success) I finally gave up on them. To ensure that I didn't open the cupboard in 6 months time and waste my time again with them , I smashed them up with a hammer and chucked them in the bin! Last TP LInk product that I will ever buy! Utter crap!