D-LinkN300 Mesh Wi-Fi Range Extender- Cover up to 850 sq. ft. - Mesh, Booster, Repeater, Access Point, Extend Wi-Fi in Your Home, Ethernet Port, Easy App Setup, (DAP-1325-US)

Using this device (DAP 1650, Wireless AC1200 Dual Band Gigabit Range Extender) as an Extender.Update: Now works really well. Speed is good. All my devices in the dead area are connected to the extender and they work really well. Occassionally when my provider lags, it will drop. It sometimes reconnects on it's own, but sometimes it takes so long I push the rest to force it to search for the signal. But I am happy with it. So happy I wanted to buy another and now see the price has increased.The instructions in the book seemed easy enough, but I must not be as okay with tech as I thought because I didn't realise that the extender set-up was the long one (page 7 of the manual) and not the short "press WPS on router, then press WPS on D-Link then you're done". So I had left it for hours thinking it was doing a firmware upgrade (flashing orange internet LED)Once that was sorted (and it was easy to follow instructions) it gave 2 solid green lights and I moved it to the dead zone. It took longer than the 10 seconds I see in the majority of reviews, but it did eventually give me 2 steady green lights as well. My devices picked it up and connected.ButI tested the speed and it was slow. So slow that I went back to using my main system (that I had THOUGHT was slow) to be able to send this review. The laptop is connected to Old Slow Boat and the phone is connected to New Slow Boat. Phone is slower in speed (read: connectivity) than the laptop.Could be I am having a really bad service night form my provider? Dunno. But the signal strength is VERY strong, but not fast at all. Will give it a few more days.

First the good.I bought two extenders for some dead spots in my house. Set up was super easy using WPS to my Dlink AC3000 router. Tip: Only set up one at a time or the extenders may pair to each other rather than the router. I had this happen to one extender and it caused some issue in setup until I figured out what I did. I work for a cable company and we had a mesh system that would sometimes have this happen as well. Just set up one at a time and you're good. Hand shake between devices works pretty well although sometimes it takes my phone a minute to let go of my router upstairs with weaker signal and switch to the extender I'm closest to but overall works very well. Ive had no issues after install.The Bad:These will not do Gig. I have gig service and get 1020 down and 50 up hardwired to my main router. My Imac is capable of getting 960 down and 50 up over wifi to my router. My Phone will do 620 down and 50 up over wifi on router. When on the mesh extenders speed tops out at 220-250 down and 50 up. Hardwired to an extender I get the same speed.Overall:If you have 200 internet or less go for it. Honestly most people dont need more than this; most issues I find with customers are connection or device issues (crappy built in apps in smart tv's or old out of date streaming devices), not speed issues. With the cheap availability of Wifi 6 routers, I'd get one of those if you're starting from scratch.

My Comcast combination modem/router (Arris TG862G) provides a terrible wireless signal. It is big and ugly and sits in the office near the front of the house. Unless we are in the same room as the router, it is pretty much useless. The wireless signal has zero strength outside the room. Our 2 story + daylight basement has cat5e wiring throughout, but they were not active. I am familiar with installing software and I'm happy to research and try to learn just about anything, but I am definitely not a computer expert and I know nothing about networks. This weekend I decided to try to fix our internet problems.Stage 1: Get the in-wall ethernet ports working. It bothered me that I had all of these outlets throughout the house and they were inactive. I wanted to be able to hard-wire my Xbox. It turned out to be easy. Find the cable panel, buy an 8-port switch, plug the 8 ethernet cables that are dangling in the panel into the switch, and run an ethernet cable "out" of the Arris router and into the wall. Done. I took my laptop and an ethernet cable to each port and tested it. 120mbps at every outlet (which is far higher than what I pay for).Stage 2: Improve wireless signal. Since we have the ethernet ports throughout the house, I only really needed an access point (not necessarily a router, although a router would have worked just the same). I did a fair amount of research and read a lot of reviews. Ultimately, I think there are a lot of good routers/access points and I just had to pick one. My criteria? (1) I wanted something with ac connection for our iphones and tvs. (2) It didn't have to be the fastest thing out there, given that our internet is only about 100 Mbps. (3) Around $100 or less (not because I don't think that the more expensive ones are better, but because I felt I could get what I needed for $100). (4) Something that would fit on a shelf or tv stand in my family room and not look like a router. (5) Easy set up.When I got this router, I read through the few short pages of instructions. If you are using this as a range extender, setup is literally 30 seconds. There isn't a section of the instructions labeled "access point mode," so I just followed the "configure the dap-1650 using a web browser" instructions. It was easy. It took 10 minutes max to name the 2.4GHz and 5Ghz, set the passwords, and connect my devices.My setup: Unlike some other reviewers, I have set the 2.4GHz to be a separate network from my existing network (i.e., the 2.4 GHz signal from the Arris router). If the Arris router was good, I could see merging those networks (using the same SSID and password) so that your devices could jump from one to the other, but the Arris signal is so bad that our 2.4GHz devices won't ever use it. Ever.Results: On the 5Ghz network, in our open concept family room, kitchen, and dining room, I am getting 120 mbps --- the same as if our devices were hard-wired. Amazing. At the other end of the house, opposite this AP, it is about 70. Upstairs and downstairs, immediately above and below where this AP is located, we are also getting 120 mbps, with decreases to about 70 throughout the house.On the 2.4GHz network, in the family room area, it is about 35Mbps, although I haven't tried to optimize this by changing channels, etc.For comparison, on the 2.4GHz network from my Arris router, in the family room (about 30 feet from the router), the download speed was 1.4mbps. Yes, 1.4.Not only does it work great, but it is small and easy to hide, and it doesn't have a bunch of antennas screaming that it's a router. I could place this in any room in the house and it would look fine.Overall, I'm extremely pleased. It does everything that I wanted it to. I don't need a network that covers acres of property, but I want to have a good signal everywhere in my house. This has allowed me to do that. I would definitely recommend it (and already have).

Simple, easy solution. Super easy setup, extended the signal nicely. :)Edit: 3.5 months later, it stopped working. D-Link’s customer service is only free for the first 1-3 months. Found a suggestion online to update the firmware but can’t get it to connect to the internet to download it. Device’s owners don’t have an extra Ethernet cable to try connecting to it that way—that may be what I try next. This device is for my 80 yr old parents - would be better if you didn’t have to be an IT professional to keep the device maintained. I’d just buy a new one but I’m guessing it would need updating frequently.

O aparelho é compatível com a tecnologia mesh para estender uma rede Wi-Fi, porém tem limitação de range de canais para funcionar, na 5G precisa trabalhar só com canais com numeração mais baixa, o que dificultou muito a instalação até eu descobrir esse detalhe. E o aparelho trava praticamente uma vez por dia, o que precisa tirar e colocar ele novamente na tomada. No mais atende ao esperado.

Had an issue with the extender but the seller provided brilliant customer service. Thankyou for your help.

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I had difficulty in configuring the N300 Wi-Fi range extender with existing D-Link router, Model DS-2730U, since the instructions provided along with the device were inadequate. I had to take the assistance of the Verna-Goa Helpline to complete the configuration. The response of the helpline person was very good.