NETGEAR Wi-Fi Range Extender EX2700 - Coverage Up to 800 Sq Ft and 10 Devices with N300 Wireless Signal Booster & Repeater (Up to 300Mbps Speed), and Compact Wall Plug Design

We use these to provide SOLID coverage over the ENTIRETY of our Mountain Top Ranch (about 10 Acres on Top of the "Plateau" where our Home, Recreational Areas, and Upper Pastures are located. We also use them "Daisy-Chained Together" to cover our DEEP Valleys surrounding our Mountain. Each Extender is named "(Our SSID Name)_(Area Of Coverage)".. Example: "Our-Router_West" is the extender that covers the Western Top Part Of Our Ranch. When we "Link" or "Daisy Chain" several of these together to provide WiFi coverage down in the Valleys surrounding our Mountain, We use a format like "Our-Router_West1" ("The FIRST 'Daisy Chained' Western Netgear Extender, Connected to the MAIN Netgear Extender that covers the Western Part of the TOP of our Ranch, Which is Connected Directly to our Home's Router"), "Our-Router_West2" ("The SECOND Netgear Western Extender, which is Daisy-Chain-Connected to the FIRST Western Extender, Which is connected to the Main Western Netgear Extender, Which is connected to our Home's Router" - That's a total of THREE Netgear Extenders, Covering the Western Areas Of Our Property, Up top, and down in the Western Valley) etc. etc... You start losing 'Throughput Speed' FAST when Daisy Chaining these units together, but at least you still have "More than Decent" WiFi Coverage, even (ESPECIALLY) in areas where Cell Coverage can be spotty (Like down in our Steep Valley to our North, Where our Natural Springs run, which is a pretty sheer 600 Foot Drop in Elevation, with only a few hundred feet of Width before Climbing UPWARD again to more of our property.. Cell Coverage down there is 'WISHFUL THINKING' at best, even with a Cell Tower Company Renting some space we don't use to place a Mini-Cell-Tower on our Property, so the Cell Companies can cut STRAIGHT ACROSS this HUGE Bowl of Mountains in the Area we live in, to provide Coverage to SEVERAL State Parks, WITHOUT having to run MULTIPLE towers on the Mountains that Surround us in the distance, 360 degrees.. Imagine a "Pound Cake Bowl"... The Edges of the Bowl would be the Mountains surrounding us in the distance, and the Plateau Sticking up in the center of the Bowl, is where WE live). Our iPhones will use "WiFi" to place calls, when they can't get Cell Coverage, so it works out GREAT for us! Recently, One of our Family Members built a home on land I gave them up here, about 900 "Air Feet" away from our house (So they don't have to see/hear us, and we don't have to see/hear them).. When I bought this mountain, NO Utility Company would TOUCH IT as far as "Providing Lines this far from Their Main Lines", So I had to buy all of the Power/Cable/Water/etc lines myself, and hire Contractors to run them all up here (Buried).. I sized ALL of the Utilities to be able to support 10 homes eventually, as our Children can afford to build up here once they are at a place in life where they can work from home if they wish, Or build a "Vacation Home" up here until they CAN live up here full time... I bought HUGE spools of BIG Fiber-Optic Cable Line from 'Corning', and had contractors run it a LONG way, to the Local Cable Company's Main Lines, that Carry Cable TV/Internet between Counties (Same for Power Lines, etc). So we have a LOT more High Speed Bandwidth than I need, Even working from home... Until our Family Member who just built a home here can afford to connect to our Main Fiber Line to get Cable Internet of their own, I bought Two more of these Netgear units, and Daisy-Chained them together toward their new house, which is East of ours. I Fully expected to need THREE Extenders to run 900 "Air-Feet", But TWO of them (One set in about the middle of one of our Upper Pastures, and the Second Unit Plugged into their Enclosed Screen-Room on their Back Porch) provides them with Decently fast WiFi Internet!!! We DO live WAY OUT in the middle of nowhere, without "Other signals everywhere to shorten the range of the signals WE produce" (for many different things), so YMMV if you live in a Suburb or something, but they work FLAWLESSLY up here for us. ALL of the FIRST "Main" Netgear Extenders are placed outside our home, in a Waterproof (But "Signal Transparent") Enclosure. Those First Extenders are simply used to grab the WiFi Signal from our Main Router inside our house (Going through "THICK Stone Walls" is TOUGH for even THE BEST WiFi Router!) and then "Extend The WiFi Signal Out Across our Property"... We have Four of these, Set North/South/East/West around the outside of our home, each about 50 Feet away from our Home. I've found it's easiest just to set up each unit by going to Netgear's site when you find the extender on your device, creating a login, and then you can change ALL of your Units from a Netgear Book-Mark TO EACH UNIT (You REALLY need to have a separate Netgear Bookmark for EACH extender!). From those bookmarks, You can rename each unit, set it's signal strength, see what's connected to it, AND how good the Signal Strength is, TO AND FROM, each unit, etc. I also found that if you just connect your iPhone (or whatever you may be carrying around) to EACH unit ONCE, let your device store that information, Then choose the option on your device to "Connect Automatically To Known Networks (with better signal strength)", Then we can walk, ride the Horses or ATVs, pretty much anywhere, and our iPhones switch from Extender Unit to Extender Unit without even hesitating! Our Devices connect to the Extenders with better Signal Strength as we travel around outside Seamlessly. We never even know when the device has swapped connections from one extender to another. Normally this is where I'd say, "For the Price These Can't Be Beat'... But I've Paid MUCH MORE for WiFi Extenders that didn't perform HALF as well as these do! "And For The Price", you can scatter them everywhere over large areas. "Tech Tip": Lightly MIST the INSIDE of a clear "Cake Platter" CD/DVD Bulk Storage Dome with WHITE paint (To reflect the Sun's Heat AWAY from the Cake-Platter, and keep UV OFF the Extenders), Run an Outdoor-Rated Extension Cord through a hole in the bottom of the Cake Patter Storage Case (created when you cut the Center Spindle out of the base), Hot-Glue the Extension Cord in Place close to the bottom of the case, AND to close up the Gaps in the Bottom Hole to keep the bugs out, And you have a HIGHLY decent "Outdoor, Weather Resistant, Signal Transparent, WiFi Signal Extender Dome" I simply set up each new unit here in the house, log in to the Netgear Website, Choose which OTHER unit I want the NEW unit to connect to (either our Main Router, OR one of the Extenders out further from the house), and let the NetGear Site set it up for me (Bookmark the Netgear Site Associated with EACH INDIVIDUAL UNIT!).. Then I unplug the unit, take to where I need it, Plug it back in to Power, and it's good to go! Once we allow ALL of our Devices (iPhones, Palm-Tops, etc) to connect to each extender and save it as a "known Network", I turn OFF the "Broadcast SSID" Option, so no one else sees the (Now HUGE) WiFi Network "Publicly" (without Special Software, or a Signal Sniffer, etc).. But even if someone DID happen to somehow get onto our Property, past all of our Security Fences, and Security Systems, and find the WiFi Signal, well, that's what STRONG PASSWORDS, Encryption, And FIREWALLS are for! It can be a pain, but our Main Router is Set-Up to ONLY allow use by "Devices We Specifically Allow". "Guests" are allowed to connect to a "GUEST ACCOUNT", which puts them on a Secondary Network, so if their devices are Compromised, or have a Virus/Worm/etc, it can't propagate through to other devices on our Main Network. And if their devices contain a Keystroke logger, then whoever is reading the Logger's Output only has a Guest Password, WHICH CHANGES EVERY 10 DAYS, and Each Guest has a PERSONAL password that identifies THEM.. We do it that way so that if a Month from now, someone we don't know starts trying to hack into our network using an old Guest Password [Like: "glenn-1s-C00l-0CT"] that was used by a friend that visited recently, we know to contact THAT friend and tell them they've been compromised ("glenn-1s-C00l-0CT", LOOKS like, "Glenn-Is-Cool-Oct", But what it ACTUALLY tells US is "It was "Glenn", "First Part" [1s] "Of October")... But even then Our Router wouldn't even respond to a MAC Address that's not CURRENTLY on the "Guest List" marked as "Allowed", so even someone Spoofing his MAC Address wouldn't work, since his Guest Access was COMPLETELY deleted the day he left. Probably 10 Times More than you Wanted to know, But nowadays Security Risks are VERY REAL, VERY possible, and that's even MORE of a Concern When you have WiFi COMPLETELY Covering Tens Of Acres. These are VERY useful Items!

I do not consider myself an expert on home/small-office networking but I've done a lot of it and in my experience it is something of a black art... quite consistently the most mystifying and frustrating aspect of the information age. I have used a number of range extenders, bridges, etc, over the years including Belkin and various forms of dd-wrt. This is by far the best experience I've had. I bought it about 6 months ago for a project I wound up not using it for. It was inexpensive enough that I held on to it because I knew it would come in handy. As the weather (finally!) is getting nicer, the fact that our back-yard wifi coverage is poor was keeping us indoors more than we wanted, so I set it up this morning. I will spend more time writing this review than doing the setup. I followed the instructions which I think were just fine, used the WPS button (which I had previously thought of as being something for wimps) and the thing set itself right up. For those of you who expect every technological thing to be instant, it takes some patience for the thing to boot up (power light to go from amber to green) and to connect, like a minute or two. I wanted to change the SSID from myssid_EXT to something a bit prettier, but this is in no way necessary. Again following the instructions, I logged into the extender's settings page using my browser. I saw that there was a firmer update available which I installed, and I think it was a good idea because I think it was mostly a GUI update for the settings page. The GUI is now simple, intuitive, and attractive... quite unusual for networking boxes, in my experience. To pick one example, when I changed the SSID, rather than simply disconnecting me and letting me guess that I have to reconnect to the new SSID, it took me to a page explaining that, with a button to press once I had reconnected. All of this in unbroken English, again a rarity for inexpensive networking devices. So I can't promise this great for folks with less experience, but I think that it is likely. I have a New England wood-frame house built in 1900. These are often the worst for networking, I'm told. My router is on the 2nd floor at the front of the house. I put the extender in the back of the house, on the first floor, maybe feet away. Once it booted up, the "Router" light was green, indicating a strong connection. I connected to the extender from the front of the house on the 1st floor, maybe 40 feet from the extender. The speedtest.net figures through the extender were 23/26 Mbps (down/up), compared to 30/27 connecting directly to the router, which is upstairs from here, maybe 25 feet away. I did notice that the "Device" light is amber from here, not solid green so the wifi connection between my laptop and the extender is apparently not optimal but obviously the performance is good. Finally, I went to the back yard. At 50-60 feet from the extender, the speedtest results were 10/5, so there is some significant dropoff. In terms of physical design it is compact and light, but does not feel flimsy, and it fits perfectly in a two-plug socket, as pictured. I am also happy to see that this seems to be in a series with their AC range extenders, suggesting that they will be continuing to maintain the software, which I was glad to see... not always the case when the next generation of networking arrives. All in all, a great unit at a great price, I am very happy with this purchase and highly recommend it. Edit: 3 years later and still going strong! I recently repurposed it to my small office. Reset, restart, reconfigure, and it's working like a charm. I wish all equipment were this easy, reliable, and well-designed.

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Solid build quality. Setup was very easy. For some reason the laptop i connected to set it up wont load the configuration page of the router. However, it was displayed instantaneously on my mobile. So i completed the setup on my mobile! It was very easy and just goes through the wizard in three or four steps. It has two LEDs, one which shows if signal to your main router is very weak (red) and green if its ok. Another is to show if any devices are connected to it (green). Initially i performed the setup very close to the main router, then i moved it to my intended location and found the signal was too weak (red led) and hence had to tweak the location. I finally placed it at a location where i was getting two bars of signal from the main router and it was good to go! The range is very good too! I get four bars of signal even through three concrete walls! This one has better range than older belkin router i use as my mains.

Very effective. Pros: 1. Simple and rapid installation. Plug it in close to WiFi router for setup and power it up. Press the WPS button on the side. Go to your router and press the WPS on it. Wait for green lights and plug it in elsewhere within range. 2. Lights indicate signal strength. 3. Good range (Tested through walls at my house and gave me a good range of 30 feet.) 4. Compact 5. Has an Ethernet port. Cons: None yet. No bugs or quality issues detected. I used it to extend my router to the basement and garage. Router is at one far end of the house. Placed this about half way and it has performed very well with Android boxes as well as security cameras. I use DHCP and have 4 Android boxes, 2 wifi cameras, 3 phones, 3 DVD players and a combination of laptops and pcs connected to my network. 25% of these use the extender. Had the Android streaming and was viewing my camera at the same time to see if it could handle the volume. It did. I do not bother with the MAC filtering so I can't comment on how it works with that. I used to use it but with so many devices it became a nuisance to manage instead I rely on firewall and security software to protect my systems.

I bought this range extender to strengthen our Wi-Fi signal on our back deck. Wow, what a difference. I am seeing speeds that are nearly as fast as the room with the router in it. Set up was super simple and I was up and running in less than 10 minutes. Speeds are good enough that we can have friends over and anywhere from 6-8 devices are supported easily, some even streaming video, without caching or disconnects. 2 features of this unit that I absolutely love, are the following: 1) this unit creates a seperate network name, to your main network. In my case, it used the name of my home network but added the suffix "_1". This is an excellent option, to ensure that devices closer to your main router, will be able to choose the stronger signal and not wrestle for the additional network created by this range extender. 2) This unit has a network port on it, so that a wired connection can be established to this extender box for any device that might not be WiFi capable. That is awesome feature that I have yet to see on any of the other range extenders that I had seen prior to making this purchase. I am super impressed with the security, features, construction and price of this unit. If you need or want a range extender, I simply do not know how you could do any better. I STRONGLY recommend this product to you, as I already have to a number of my friends.

Gets The job done. I am using Apple Airport Express as primary router. I guess its getting old and I see a drop in the signal strength in my study/work room. I was looking for a range extender at an affordable price. I came across this device. Its fairly easy to setup (took me 10 minutes). Significantly improved the Wi-Fi signal strength. I am on ACT 100 mbps connection. However my apple router is only giving around 50mbps on an average. The range extender is getting me around 30mbps which is more than enough( I was getting 3-4 mbps earlier without the extender). Overall I am satisfied with the product. Gets the job done. (I could have ordered a higher version to support 5ghz as its only delivers 2.5ghz band. 2.5ghz is the most common and congested as we have probably 20-25 devices at home operating in this bandwidth). Bottom line - Huge Thumbs up!