This is how they work; I don't understand the confusion. You can't expect the same speeds or even faster speeds from a device that has to repeat the signal on a half-duplex transmission. These units are to extend your signal coverage but at a cost on speed. They work fine for emails, Web surfing or connecting a printer.
first off the reason that someone would be getting an extender is if the wireless device that is accessing the wifi router is hardly getting a signal (like 1 bar or 2). so on the video its clear that he gets more than 1 or 2 bars of signal from the router and it can be seen on the speed test (17ms) omg why would someone with 17 ms need an extender for? in my country im wired to my router and im getting 22ms on my speed test. 2nd if in case the first situation is true then like the name implies the extender will extend the signal and not the misconception that it will "boost" it. so the extender should be in the middle, it should be placed near the accessing device but it should also be within the range of the source(router).. illustrations (router - - - - - - - - > PC[2 bars]) (router - - - extender[full bar] - - -> PC[full bar]). 3rd if your router can serve 300mbps and your device can only handle 100mbps dont expect to get a speed test more than 100. 4th distance degrade speed.
@@safi5878 so if the source wifi has connection problems you buy a repeater w/c ,if ur thinking, is still connecting to that source wifi using, guess what? that wifi connection that is getting the no internet connection problem. ill do the thinking for you. ok? if you are getting a" no internet connection" problem. the way to isolate the problem is to use a wired connection now if ur not getting problems with wired connection there are still 2 things to check.1st the router(its wifi coz the connection is fine with wired) 2nd the wifi device that is connecting to the router. to check the router you need to observe other devices connected to the router via wifi with the same spec as the wifi device you are having problem with (hint B/G/N) next, if the router is not the problem, maybe its the wifi device. to make sure, try connecting your wifi device to another router see if ur still getting the same problem. if you still dont get the irony of your reasons... if the problem is ur wifi device you will still have the problem right? now if the problem is the main router, guess what? you will still have the same problem since the repeater you bought is still connecting to the main router. now ur close to the solution if you bought a repeater you just have to use a little imagination... hint: wired
He just needs to put the extender in his office then connect to the extender by lan. If his computer can pick up the WiFi, the extender most definitely can. By putting it next to the router it essentially does nothing except make it worse.
Ye that confused me, thought the point of these things was to basicly set up little mini routers in the house that gave a better signal to the isolated areas but I may be wrong about that too 🤷♂️
He only did that to set up the extender. After set up, and to test, he put it on the landing, half way between the dropped area and router. It’s all in the video.
For those criticizing not using a wired connection, many houses can’t do that, or can’t do it easily. In my house, for example, I would have to pay someone to run several hundred feet of Ethernet cables, fishing through the ceilings and walls, terminate the ends, and wire the connections from the router and the access point(s) to the newly installed keystone jacks (RJ-45). Not impossible, but a) outside my skill set (I don’t want to fall through the vaulted ceiling if I make a mistake), and b) I can spend equal or even less money and get a wireless mesh system which supports WiFi 6 and gives me all the bandwidth I need. The problem with this video is that we don’t know what technology the router supports. Let’s say it’s WiFi 5, which is 802.11ac. The cheap extender pictured is an N300, so 300 Mbps will be the nominal speed. Actually 150 Mbps because any Extender will run half duplex for listening and receiving the signal, and that’s within 10 feet of the device. Add walls and floors as in the video, and distance, and you can see the problem. If the router at the far end of the house is WiFi 5, then at least the Extender should be WiFi 5 in order to maximize bandwidth. And the placement of the extender in the stairway, BELOW the PC is not going to be good. I suspect the antennas on the extender are going to be directional in a horizontal plane, and will have almost no power in the vertical direction. Better to get a WiFi 5 or WiFi 6 mesh system, if you can replace the provider’s modem/router. ISP modem/routers are notoriously bad; at least in the USA, most ISPs will allow you to bring your own to connect to their cable drop.
That's an odd way to test the extender, you should have downloaded a wifi analyzer app on your phone and then place the phone next to the computer and measure the signal strength of the default router then plug the extender in and measure the signal strength of that and compare them.
Mate, the issue isnt the repeater - it's your speed expectations! Firstly, the whole concept of repeaters is they will halve your speed cos they need to talk to your client and the host router on the same frequency. And then, You've chosen to try a N300 @ 2.4ghz. 2.4ghz maxes out at 72mbps - divide that by a 2 way comms and you get the speed you get - Router doing its job 100% imho. But 2.4ghz is ancient! You want BETTER speeds, get a dual band - AC1200 or AC1900 and watch the difference! If you want a 100% throughput you either hardwire till your office and place a router / extender there, if you cant or dont want to hardwire, consider a set of powerline adapters or if you want a truly wireless setup, get TRI-Band Routers - I get 500 / 100 with BT, and i binned the BT Hub 2, use an Asus-AC86u as a primary router / modem and have turned off the wifi - used only for guests maybe. For wifi I use the Velop 0303 tri-band mesh pack which has 2 5ghz channels (2nd wifi 5ghz as a dedicated inter-router back-haul) and I get 480-490 mbps across the place, no drops or anything and under 10secs for a ping. Pls remember you only get what you pay for. Hope that helps.
This range extender has worked for me. I previously had no wifi signal in my garden shed. The router is on the east aspect of my house, where the fibre optic cable comes in. I put the extender on a socket near the western aspect of my house, with line of sight through a window to the garden shed. I now have wi-fi in the shed, good enough to stream a youtube video, (although all I need to do is remotely turn a wireless mains switch on and off).
Just use a cable and use it as access point and its signal and connection should get much better. I even disabled my 2.4Gh network because the signal had too much coverage. Your speed could be limited to 100mbps due to the model though, but should be plenty for most applications
It's quite easy, the extender says that it tops at 300 Mbits. doing the math 300/8(roughly)= 37.5 MB. so the product not only works but also goes a little bit higher than what it says on the box. With that in mind its obvious that the product is working like it should. Best Regards, João Enes
@@jomamag16 1megabit= 0.125 megabyte. By that logic if you switch it so you can get the conversion ratio you get 1/0.125 = 8. The 8 stands for the constant which you have to split the megabit's to get the megabytes.
The Speedtest mensure was in Mbps, not MBps so he was getting 10x less what the device suppose to handle. Of course, i don’t know what is his internet speed or if he has 300Mbps broadband connection to do this test.
😎dude don't worry about cheap extenders. Try plugging an ethernet cable from the extender to your pc. Keep the extender closer or buy a 32 foot cat 6 ethernet cable. Should solve your problems 😃 ........ anyways great video 🙏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🔥🎉🎉🎉
There is a difference between speed and strength of signal. You said your wifi kept getting dropped and that's presumably due to you losing signal since it has to travel far to reach your computer. This is an ideal situation for an extender because it will pick up the signal from your router at half the distance (depending on where you put it), then send that signal to your computer. This in effect strengthens your signal. However, there is a price you pay for this setup in the form of speed. Because the signal has to now travel to your wifi extender then to your computer, it's not going to be as fast as if the signal traveled directly from your router to your computer. It's a common misconception that extenders enhance the speed of the connection. If anything, they are likely to slow it down. But the upside is you should get a much more reliable, consistent, signal. I.e your signal shouldn't just drop on you like you say it's doing now
My internet speed is 30Mbps, that is the modem/router directly connected to the computer with an ethernet cable, at point X the signal drops, and so does the speed to 8 Mbps, after I installed an extender at point X the speed goes up to 16 Mbps within 20 ft away from the extender, so is my case an anomaly?
The reason there were two extender options is bc one is 2.4 and the other is 5. You were using 2.4 which is for less demanding devices I.e. video doorbell. Do another test with 5ghz option.
Miguel Chavez yes it actually did. I only get 50 mbs like I said and I followed all the steps, put it within a good range of my router and I get the same speeds now in my bedroom which used to be a dead zone! Good pick up for cheap and easy to install. It probably doesn’t work as well for this guy because his internet speed is significantly higher than mine. It only supports up to 300mbps
@@emmanuelpapi Thanks for responding. I also bought a TP Link wifi extender but I didn't find it beneficial for me. It functioned, but not any better than the signal I was already getting from my router. I'm currently doing a write up for my youtube video on it. It's interesting to see a variation in results for people.
a boost in 20mbp/s for you may not be as much as you may have expected but for me, getting literally 300kbp/s upload and around 2mbp/s download, its a massive boost XD!
What you pay for is pretty much what you get. First of all, to go beyond approx. 50 MB/s, you'll need to use at least Wifi AC, which your extender doesn't support. (it does support only 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n). Although the last one (802.11n) is supposedly 300 MB/s, you typically will connect properly only in rare cases. Check what you get on the extender UI itself (by connecting to it using acable, not via Wifi), I'm ready to bet you got the "most stable" one which is typically the 802.11g (approx 50 MB/s, and you get slightly lower than that). Also, you are trying to get from downstairs to upstairs, which is pretty much the worst possible way to try and get wifi. Wifi, as all radio waves, deploys as an "umbrella". Here, the actual position of the antenna on your original router (if possible) or on the extender might bring a huge change in terms of speed. And last but not least, cheap extenders are nice to provide wifi to guests without having them on your LAN and give them some limited access, but if you need your internet for work, do yourself a favor and purchase a couple of CPL (powerline) adapters. That will be only marginally more expensive than the extender you got (try and get a reputrable brand like D-LINK, TP-LINK or Devolo) and there you should get pretty much your max bandwidth. Ah.... make sure you get them as AV1000 (or higher) compatible. That way you can mix & match or add more later if necessary.
I think the issue may have been that the frequencies don't match. The N300 Model only works with 2.4 GHz and most modern Wi-Fi is 5 GHz. It would've been better to test using another model that supports 5 GHz. Although, most of the time extenders don't really do much unless their connected via cable to a modem/router and it is absolutely possible that they'll just make you connection worse.
Ok an extender always slows down the speed. As it sends and receives at 2 bandwidths. Receives at highest 5ghz sends out at lowest 2.4ghz. I have router you have and the signal distance is not the best. 5ghz is best for short distance and fastest 2.5ghz spreads further but is slower. And this is probably what most devices in and around your home pick up. Maybe there is a way to get all other devices to stay off the 2.4 and you keep that free of traffic for yourself. But you had over 100mb at one point that’s more than enough for anything. Unless you’re mining BitCoin
I just want a damn extender that works well and isn't that expensive. My laptop can receive the 5G network and 2G from my room but my iPhone can barely receive the 2G which is slower than my data at this distance. I wanna use wifi over data and I wanna stay in my room, not at the living room smh
@@philwood3396 That's not what this product does. This is another example of a person using a wifi range extender as a repeater incorrectly. This is why you don't take tech advice from youtubers.
Thats what I do, because the router is downstairs and it would be pretty difficult to get an ethernet cable to my pc from downstairs to upstairs, however recently it started lagging out the whole wifi whenever i plugged it in, any idea why? I could use some help.
I hate to break it to you, but it's an uninformed user issue than a non-working extender. You bought a single 2.4GHz extender!!! Your Virgin modem/router is dual band 2.4/5GHz. By your tested speed of 100Mbps, it's a clear indication it's a 5GHz bonded connection. You should have bought a dual-band version of that TP-Link and use the 5GHz as backbone and 2.4GHz to transmit to your computer. On a single band extender, you half the bandwidth automatically because your extender is using the same bandwidth to talk to the modem/router as it is to talk to the computer... You bought the wrong product sadly...
our house when built there was no plan about ethernet cables. now we have slow internet since our wifi router is in the corner of the house and our repeaters are bounded by concrete walls. Tho we get a stable internet from repeaters, it's 4-5 times slower than its intended speed. I think its good enough.
@@theTechNotice the placement of the router and extender are not optimal. This causes the connection to drop out. In addition, to having the ISP's with a lot of other issues.
I think you don't understand the purpose of this mode of operation with this device. The purpose is to put it halfway between your AP and a place where you have a NULL (no signal at all). Then, the improvement is infinite. If you can, wire it directly to the router and the speed will be exactly the same as the router. You reached the wrong conclusion!
WiFi extenders, increase WiFi coverage. They do nothing for access point Internet speed. Your ISP solely determines this. A Wifi analyser will tell if the WiFi is better in a WiFi dead spot; if your PC can already connect to WiFi, then this is the utterly wrong scenario to use one. Also, WiFi extenders often purposely slow the signal's modulation and thus slows the network speed but maximise the range, not the rate at which your router receives the Internet. Still, a speed test will show a slower connection on the device using the extender, but this often means the WiFi booster is doing its job as per above.
You bought a 802.11n extender and expect speed to be better than what you got? Are you serious? The real world transfer speeds of 802.11n is around 40mbps on 5ghz. You should have tried a 802.11ac extender instead.
Actually expensive extenders like TP LINK RE650/AC2600 doesn't do anything better. I own a Mi WiFI repeater 2 which extends a netwrok being far away from a router with almost no problems. Whereas the TP LINK RE2600 can barely see the router from the same place. It simply cannot extend the network from that place, where the mi repeater 2 actually works. And the TP link is 10 or 20 times more expensive, 10 times bigger and buying it you will expect literally miracles compared to the small Xiaomi, while the truth is, that the little Xiaomi beats the TP LINK.
@@theTechNotice it does the job as extender of signal, but u get what u pay for. 2.4ghz is for low bandwith and better coverage, 5ghz high bandwith but lower coverage. So for low price u get only one feature.
I've never found any of these extenders to work well, plus they create a separate network which is annoying for example BT-wifi123 & BT-wifi123_EXT. The only way I have found that works ok is the WiFi sockets, these actually extend the same network, don't expect 300mbps but at I get 50-75 on my 100mbps, I only get 50-75 with BT most the time anyway, way worse than what's quoted, virgin had good internet speeds, if I had 50mbps on the test I'd get 55mbps
This video has frustrated me! Lads, this is not how you resolve this issue. Firstly personalise your WiFi, I bet his channel is auto, assign channel 11 maybe. Never put your hub in a dark dinghy corner, at least once a week/fortnight turn the hub off, cool, back on. Ok so the speed test app, run it in the room, amazing? Ok, move 5 meters towards destination, close any doors along the way/path. Run test, amazing? Repeat. Ok, found a drop spike? Go back to previous amazing spot, install a repeater, ok from there keep going towards the destination, another drop? Guess what, install another repeater. Now are you in the attic? Amazing, use WiFi? Do no more, fire on, want a lan/switch, guess what? Another repeater. So, if your wiring circuit/electrics are on the same circuit, get ethernet over mains. Much easier. Also, hub 5ghz? Phone, pc 5ghz? But your repeater is 2.5ghz? Guess what, throughput will be vastly less. Don't say these things don't work when they do, you don't understand how they work. It's not fair on the products. A paint tin and a roller doesn't mean you can paint. You said they don't work, they do, you just don't understand how they work. Play music on your phone, put it down, start walking away, close doors, notice anything? Yes, it's all frequency. Frequency depletion is the issue, find it and then repair it. Devices/LEDs all electronic devices can interrupt WiFi. Learn this before you say it doesn't work. It's CHEAP because of the throughput, not cause it's crap. It can only repeat what it can hear! Full WiFi means zero when it can't hear the signal.
Egner 513 I just got mine and I’ve spent the last hour testing the thing out and I have to say... that this thing is an absolute piece of shit. It some how managed to make my already horrible internet connection twice as worse
It looks like you don't know what are you doing. You don't know what are you extending and you are extending the wrong thing. This is ridiculous. Please just call an IT guy specialized in wifi. Pay the man, you do pay for food, right?!?
You said that it told you to move it even further from the router and you didn't listen. you said i'm not going to do that. you should update you test.
![TP LINK 300mbps WI FI EXTENDER REVIEW & UNBOXING [2021] // TL-WA850RE](/img/1.gif)
This is how they work; I don't understand the confusion. You can't expect the same speeds or even faster speeds from a device that has to repeat the signal on a half-duplex transmission. These units are to extend your signal coverage but at a cost on speed. They work fine for emails, Web surfing or connecting a printer.
Me listening to him complain about 90mbps with 5mbps nearly able to load the video👍
1.40mb or sometimes 0.60 :/
me with 200kbs chugging along on my chonk setup B)
Frs I only get 3mbps
exactly...
@TheButcher6969 what service do you have now ive been playing on switching
first off the reason that someone would be getting an extender is if the wireless device that is accessing the wifi router is hardly getting a signal (like 1 bar or 2). so on the video its clear that he gets more than 1 or 2 bars of signal from the router and it can be seen on the speed test (17ms) omg why would someone with 17 ms need an extender for? in my country im wired to my router and im getting 22ms on my speed test. 2nd if in case the first situation is true then like the name implies the extender will extend the signal and not the misconception that it will "boost" it. so the extender should be in the middle, it should be placed near the accessing device but it should also be within the range of the source(router).. illustrations (router - - - - - - - - > PC[2 bars]) (router - - - extender[full bar] - - -> PC[full bar]). 3rd if your router can serve 300mbps and your device can only handle 100mbps dont expect to get a speed test more than 100. 4th distance degrade speed.
Ye but the reason he bought it was because it sometimes says no internet connection
@@safi5878 so if the source wifi has connection problems you buy a repeater w/c ,if ur thinking, is still connecting to that source wifi using, guess what? that wifi connection that is getting the no internet connection problem. ill do the thinking for you. ok? if you are getting a" no internet connection" problem. the way to isolate the problem is to use a wired connection now if ur not getting problems with wired connection there are still 2 things to check.1st the router(its wifi coz the connection is fine with wired) 2nd the wifi device that is connecting to the router. to check the router you need to observe other devices connected to the router via wifi with the same spec as the wifi device you are having problem with (hint B/G/N) next, if the router is not the problem, maybe its the wifi device. to make sure, try connecting your wifi device to another router see if ur still getting the same problem. if you still dont get the irony of your reasons... if the problem is ur wifi device you will still have the problem right? now if the problem is the main router, guess what? you will still have the same problem since the repeater you bought is still connecting to the main router. now ur close to the solution if you bought a repeater you just have to use a little imagination... hint: wired
He just needs to put the extender in his office then connect to the extender by lan. If his computer can pick up the WiFi, the extender most definitely can. By putting it next to the router it essentially does nothing except make it worse.
Ye that confused me, thought the point of these things was to basicly set up little mini routers in the house that gave a better signal to the isolated areas but I may be wrong about that too 🤷♂️
He only did that to set up the extender. After set up, and to test, he put it on the landing, half way between the dropped area and router. It’s all in the video.
For those criticizing not using a wired connection, many houses can’t do that, or can’t do it easily. In my house, for example, I would have to pay someone to run several hundred feet of Ethernet cables, fishing through the ceilings and walls, terminate the ends, and wire the connections from the router and the access point(s) to the newly installed keystone jacks (RJ-45). Not impossible, but a) outside my skill set (I don’t want to fall through the vaulted ceiling if I make a mistake), and b) I can spend equal or even less money and get a wireless mesh system which supports WiFi 6 and gives me all the bandwidth I need.
The problem with this video is that we don’t know what technology the router supports. Let’s say it’s WiFi 5, which is 802.11ac. The cheap extender pictured is an N300, so 300 Mbps will be the nominal speed. Actually 150 Mbps because any Extender will run half duplex for listening and receiving the signal, and that’s within 10 feet of the device. Add walls and floors as in the video, and distance, and you can see the problem. If the router at the far end of the house is WiFi 5, then at least the Extender should be WiFi 5 in order to maximize bandwidth. And the placement of the extender in the stairway, BELOW the PC is not going to be good. I suspect the antennas on the extender are going to be directional in a horizontal plane, and will have almost no power in the vertical direction.
Better to get a WiFi 5 or WiFi 6 mesh system, if you can replace the provider’s modem/router. ISP modem/routers are notoriously bad; at least in the USA, most ISPs will allow you to bring your own to connect to their cable drop.
That's an odd way to test the extender, you should have downloaded a wifi analyzer app on your phone and then place the phone next to the computer and measure the signal strength of the default router then plug the extender in and measure the signal strength of that and compare them.
Mate, the issue isnt the repeater - it's your speed expectations! Firstly, the whole concept of repeaters is they will halve your speed cos they need to talk to your client and the host router on the same frequency. And then, You've chosen to try a N300 @ 2.4ghz. 2.4ghz maxes out at 72mbps - divide that by a 2 way comms and you get the speed you get - Router doing its job 100% imho. But 2.4ghz is ancient! You want BETTER speeds, get a dual band - AC1200 or AC1900 and watch the difference! If you want a 100% throughput you either hardwire till your office and place a router / extender there, if you cant or dont want to hardwire, consider a set of powerline adapters or if you want a truly wireless setup, get TRI-Band Routers - I get 500 / 100 with BT, and i binned the BT Hub 2, use an Asus-AC86u as a primary router / modem and have turned off the wifi - used only for guests maybe. For wifi I use the Velop 0303 tri-band mesh pack which has 2 5ghz channels (2nd wifi 5ghz as a dedicated inter-router back-haul) and I get 480-490 mbps across the place, no drops or anything and under 10secs for a ping. Pls remember you only get what you pay for. Hope that helps.
why 2.4GHz N300 only max out at 72Mbps? can you elaborate?
About what I expected. That's why I'm here. Thanks for the video.
This range extender has worked for me. I previously had no wifi signal in my garden shed. The router is on the east aspect of my house, where the fibre optic cable comes in. I put the extender on a socket near the western aspect of my house, with line of sight through a window to the garden shed. I now have wi-fi in the shed, good enough to stream a youtube video, (although all I need to do is remotely turn a wireless mains switch on and off).
Just use a cable and use it as access point and its signal and connection should get much better. I even disabled my 2.4Gh network because the signal had too much coverage. Your speed could be limited to 100mbps due to the model though, but should be plenty for most applications
It's quite easy, the extender says that it tops at 300 Mbits. doing the math 300/8(roughly)= 37.5 MB. so the product not only works but also goes a little bit higher than what it says on the box.
With that in mind its obvious that the product is working like it should.
Best Regards,
João Enes
Looks like I stand corrected! Thank you!
Newbie here. The computation of 300/8, what does the 8 stand for?
@@jomamag16 1megabit= 0.125 megabyte.
By that logic if you switch it so you can get the conversion ratio you get 1/0.125 = 8.
The 8 stands for the constant which you have to split the megabit's to get the megabytes.
@@joaoenes9572 Oh alright. Thanks for the info. :)
The Speedtest mensure was in Mbps, not MBps so he was getting 10x less what the device suppose to handle. Of course, i don’t know what is his internet speed or if he has 300Mbps broadband connection to do this test.
😎dude don't worry about cheap extenders. Try plugging an ethernet cable from the extender to your pc. Keep the extender closer or buy a 32 foot cat 6 ethernet cable. Should solve your problems 😃 ........ anyways great video 🙏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🔥🎉🎉🎉
:)
The problem and (really the whole point of extenders) is that not everyone is close to their router.
I think you just solved my problem lol
There is a difference between speed and strength of signal. You said your wifi kept getting dropped and that's presumably due to you losing signal since it has to travel far to reach your computer. This is an ideal situation for an extender because it will pick up the signal from your router at half the distance (depending on where you put it), then send that signal to your computer. This in effect strengthens your signal.
However, there is a price you pay for this setup in the form of speed. Because the signal has to now travel to your wifi extender then to your computer, it's not going to be as fast as if the signal traveled directly from your router to your computer.
It's a common misconception that extenders enhance the speed of the connection. If anything, they are likely to slow it down. But the upside is you should get a much more reliable, consistent, signal. I.e your signal shouldn't just drop on you like you say it's doing now
My internet speed is 30Mbps, that is the modem/router directly connected to the computer with an ethernet cable, at point X the signal drops, and so does the speed to 8 Mbps, after I installed an extender at point X the speed goes up to 16 Mbps within 20 ft away from the extender, so is my case an anomaly?
The reason there were two extender options is bc one is 2.4 and the other is 5. You were using 2.4 which is for less demanding devices I.e. video doorbell. Do another test with 5ghz option.
I think the wifi speed going to be the same or worst because 2.4 has bigger wave then 5 which can past trough wall easily than 5
I’m on a tight budget and only pay for 50 mbps I bought this extender and hope it works for me :)
Good luck :)
Did it work?
Miguel Chavez yes it actually did. I only get 50 mbs like I said and I followed all the steps, put it within a good range of my router and I get the same speeds now in my bedroom which used to be a dead zone! Good pick up for cheap and easy to install. It probably doesn’t work as well for this guy because his internet speed is significantly higher than mine. It only supports up to 300mbps
@@emmanuelpapi Thanks for responding. I also bought a TP Link wifi extender but I didn't find it beneficial for me. It functioned, but not any better than the signal I was already getting from my router. I'm currently doing a write up for my youtube video on it. It's interesting to see a variation in results for people.
I'm still gonna get it because even though he said it doesn't work I think it will
I got it now and it works just fine and the setup was very easy
It does. Lol
He is 100% , I wish I have seen this video before I buy it
a boost in 20mbp/s for you may not be as much as you may have expected but for me, getting literally 300kbp/s upload and around 2mbp/s download, its a massive boost XD!
Thanks for the video. We have tried two different extenders with a similar result as you have shown.
What you pay for is pretty much what you get. First of all, to go beyond approx. 50 MB/s, you'll need to use at least Wifi AC, which your extender doesn't support. (it does support only 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n). Although the last one (802.11n) is supposedly 300 MB/s, you typically will connect properly only in rare cases. Check what you get on the extender UI itself (by connecting to it using acable, not via Wifi), I'm ready to bet you got the "most stable" one which is typically the 802.11g (approx 50 MB/s, and you get slightly lower than that).
Also, you are trying to get from downstairs to upstairs, which is pretty much the worst possible way to try and get wifi. Wifi, as all radio waves, deploys as an "umbrella". Here, the actual position of the antenna on your original router (if possible) or on the extender might bring a huge change in terms of speed.
And last but not least, cheap extenders are nice to provide wifi to guests without having them on your LAN and give them some limited access, but if you need your internet for work, do yourself a favor and purchase a couple of CPL (powerline) adapters. That will be only marginally more expensive than the extender you got (try and get a reputrable brand like D-LINK, TP-LINK or Devolo) and there you should get pretty much your max bandwidth. Ah.... make sure you get them as AV1000 (or higher) compatible. That way you can mix & match or add more later if necessary.
Thanks for the insight dude! :)
I actually tried the powerline adapters, but they didn't work at all, I think it's a different power circuit.
they're worth it for connection speed under 30mbps, if you have more internet speed then you should buy the expensive one...
I think the issue may have been that the frequencies don't match. The N300 Model only works with 2.4 GHz and most modern Wi-Fi is 5 GHz. It would've been better to test using another model that supports 5 GHz. Although, most of the time extenders don't really do much unless their connected via cable to a modem/router and it is absolutely possible that they'll just make you connection worse.
I bet he connected to his 5 ghz network and not his 2.4 ghz
wait what’s the difference
@@qtyzl3346 2.4 has better range with slowerish speeds but 5ghz is way faster but u can only use it at much shorter distance
Also problem is this does not support 5ghz the repeater should have 5ghz
I was thinking that too.
Ok an extender always slows down the speed. As it sends and receives at 2 bandwidths. Receives at highest 5ghz sends out at lowest 2.4ghz. I have router you have and the signal distance is not the best. 5ghz is best for short distance and fastest 2.5ghz spreads further but is slower. And this is probably what most devices in and around your home pick up. Maybe there is a way to get all other devices to stay off the 2.4 and you keep that free of traffic for yourself. But you had over 100mb at one point that’s more than enough for anything. Unless you’re mining BitCoin
I just want a damn extender that works well and isn't that expensive. My laptop can receive the 5G network and 2G from my room but my iPhone can barely receive the 2G which is slower than my data at this distance. I wanna use wifi over data and I wanna stay in my room, not at the living room smh
Dude just drill 2 holes, 20m of cat5, 2 tool less ethernet sockets and BOOM.
Very much this. If cpl didn't help, good old Ethernet cable is your best bet
I thought about it, but it's a rented house so.... :D
Hi can i use that ethernet port as output to my pc? Using LAN cable?
Yes
Prefer to get a 3 in 1 (RT/AP/RE) so there's customizable options. And even the cheapest tp-link one is SGD$40(AC750) nowadays so why not?
Does it have an ethernet port so i can directly connect it into my ps4?
Did u not see ?
I’m totally confused, I thought he said he couldn’t get any WiFi in his office, then he tested the speed to 118mb?
Ikr
he gets wifi in his office usually but sometimes the signal is dropped and he loses the connection. basically his signal isn't reliable or consistent
@@philwood3396 That's not what this product does. This is another example of a person using a wifi range extender as a repeater incorrectly. This is why you don't take tech advice from youtubers.
What is the best way to extend my WiFi connection to my outside garage.. Tp link didn't work... And I can't use a cable
I would myself like to know the answer to that!
use a directional wifi antenna or access point
Wifi mesh work much better but more expensive.
Dude work good i have camers and my tvs and ps4 and thay work 100%
if you get a lan cable plug it into your pc and plug the other end into the extender you will get way better ping
that’s what i currently do for my playstation. it i still get network icons appearing when i play overwatch lmao
Thats what I do, because the router is downstairs and it would be pretty difficult to get an ethernet cable to my pc from downstairs to upstairs, however recently it started lagging out the whole wifi whenever i plugged it in, any idea why? I could use some help.
to make your speed best the Extender needs to be plugged into the router A Repeater doesn't
I hate to break it to you, but it's an uninformed user issue than a non-working extender. You bought a single 2.4GHz extender!!! Your Virgin modem/router is dual band 2.4/5GHz. By your tested speed of 100Mbps, it's a clear indication it's a 5GHz bonded connection. You should have bought a dual-band version of that TP-Link and use the 5GHz as backbone and 2.4GHz to transmit to your computer. On a single band extender, you half the bandwidth automatically because your extender is using the same bandwidth to talk to the modem/router as it is to talk to the computer... You bought the wrong product sadly...
Did you put the extender right by the router?
our house when built there was no plan about ethernet cables. now we have slow internet since our wifi router is in the corner of the house and our repeaters are bounded by concrete walls. Tho we get a stable internet from repeaters, it's 4-5 times slower than its intended speed. I think its good enough.
You may get a little bit lower speeds but your Wi-Fi will be stable like gaming or watching RUclips
Bruh it legit just made it badder no wonder i get so much ping
worse*
what if i used the cable? its better? like an extended cable
works for me, before attaching the extender I had no signal
when i watch this now and i realized that did you even refresh ur page
have a similar problem. I scripted something to reboot the extender with one click ... that solves the issue for a few days
🤔
@@theTechNotice the placement of the router and extender are not optimal. This causes the connection to drop out. In addition, to having the ISP's with a lot of other issues.
thank you so much
Hopefully someone replies. Instead of using 2.5Ghz can I use 5Ghz
Thank dude
I think you don't understand the purpose of this mode of operation with this device.
The purpose is to put it halfway between your AP and a place where you have a NULL (no signal at all). Then, the improvement is infinite.
If you can, wire it directly to the router and the speed will be exactly the same as the router.
You reached the wrong conclusion!
Dude contact official TP link support and mention that you're a RUclipsr, they will definitely help you not for kindness but for marketing
👍
Really good video
Glad you enjoyed it
How about if ur internet is really bad will it still works
this extender use spread internet connection.. for purpose to give connect on poor area..
🤔
WiFi extenders, increase WiFi coverage. They do nothing for access point Internet speed. Your ISP solely determines this. A Wifi analyser will tell if the WiFi is better in a WiFi dead spot; if your PC can already connect to WiFi, then this is the utterly wrong scenario to use one. Also, WiFi extenders often purposely slow the signal's modulation and thus slows the network speed but maximise the range, not the rate at which your router receives the Internet. Still, a speed test will show a slower connection on the device using the extender, but this often means the WiFi booster is doing its job as per above.
5ghz repeaters they can get the full speed of the internet
I have the similar problem i need this!!!!!
👍
not sure if you need 'this' haha :D
Bad scam right
in conclusion, ppl dont understand how wifi extender works, it doesnt boost your wifi and will often only take half your speed
Wait so it doesn’t make ur internet better
@@Stackcsh it gives you extra reach with half speed. So if your internet is already slow, it even gets slower
Use ethernet on extender plus would recommend tplink WiFi 6 extender it's future proofing you and you get 170 down 13 ping
how much is that wifi router can somebody tell me amazon is out of stock so it won't show pricing
If you use 5hgs speed you can get it up to that 100 meeter
Same experience with me, not doing nothing and I have the same model. "Like"
You bought a 802.11n extender and expect speed to be better than what you got? Are you serious? The real world transfer speeds of 802.11n is around 40mbps on 5ghz. You should have tried a 802.11ac extender instead.
What are you using in the office to get the 100mb+ connection as that seems pretty impressive itself?
Just the built in wifi antenna for my MSI x570 Prestige creation motherboard :)
Try a Powerline Adapter.
TP-Link is not "cheap" by the way. There are even cheaper ones !
welcome
What kind of do you have
great video
👍
90Mbps is enough bandwidth to do anything you want online with like 10+ devices.
Actually expensive extenders like TP LINK RE650/AC2600 doesn't do anything better. I own a Mi WiFI repeater 2 which extends a netwrok being far away from a router with almost no problems. Whereas the TP LINK RE2600 can barely see the router from the same place. It simply cannot extend the network from that place, where the mi repeater 2 actually works. And the TP link is 10 or 20 times more expensive, 10 times bigger and buying it you will expect literally miracles compared to the small Xiaomi, while the truth is, that the little Xiaomi beats the TP LINK.
Nice
👍
I’m at 10 download speed and 1 upload speed so to me that looks fine
Plug the ethernet into the extender then to the pc lmao
I just can't connect mine!!!
They work... if your internet is 20mbps ave...
😂
I just had the same bad experience, this extender doesn't work. It killed my internet speed.
It is range extender, not speed booster 😂 it is used in case you have situation when signal is lost.
Check if you can manually disable 2.4ghz as this is most probably bottlenecking you
I think it's 2.4ghz only.
@@theTechNotice it does the job as extender of signal, but u get what u pay for.
2.4ghz is for low bandwith and better coverage, 5ghz high bandwith but lower coverage.
So for low price u get only one feature.
300mpbs is arround 30mb that's mean extended do job you nedd something what is avil2
5ghz repeaters they can get your full speed
👌
Bruh y didnt u put it in your room
Got the same issue (all UK broadbands routers are terrible) and WiFi extenders don't help much.
annoying isn't it, just wondering what's a 'budget' solution to this without drilling holes in the wall :D
@@theTechNotice i think something like
NETGEAR Nighthawk AC 3200 should be just enough.
I've never found any of these extenders to work well, plus they create a separate network which is annoying for example BT-wifi123 & BT-wifi123_EXT.
The only way I have found that works ok is the WiFi sockets, these actually extend the same network, don't expect 300mbps but at I get 50-75 on my 100mbps, I only get 50-75 with BT most the time anyway, way worse than what's quoted, virgin had good internet speeds, if I had 50mbps on the test I'd get 55mbps
Nice vid
👍
Doesn’t work. Slows down the speed.
😔
Extenders don’t speed up your WiFi they extend range to areas that don’t get good WiFi
Cheap wifi extenders are junk. Avoid at all costs.
This video has frustrated me! Lads, this is not how you resolve this issue. Firstly personalise your WiFi, I bet his channel is auto, assign channel 11 maybe. Never put your hub in a dark dinghy corner, at least once a week/fortnight turn the hub off, cool, back on. Ok so the speed test app, run it in the room, amazing? Ok, move 5 meters towards destination, close any doors along the way/path. Run test, amazing? Repeat. Ok, found a drop spike? Go back to previous amazing spot, install a repeater, ok from there keep going towards the destination, another drop? Guess what, install another repeater. Now are you in the attic? Amazing, use WiFi? Do no more, fire on, want a lan/switch, guess what? Another repeater. So, if your wiring circuit/electrics are on the same circuit, get ethernet over mains. Much easier. Also, hub 5ghz? Phone, pc 5ghz? But your repeater is 2.5ghz? Guess what, throughput will be vastly less. Don't say these things don't work when they do, you don't understand how they work. It's not fair on the products. A paint tin and a roller doesn't mean you can paint. You said they don't work, they do, you just don't understand how they work. Play music on your phone, put it down, start walking away, close doors, notice anything? Yes, it's all frequency. Frequency depletion is the issue, find it and then repair it. Devices/LEDs all electronic devices can interrupt WiFi. Learn this before you say it doesn't work. It's CHEAP because of the throughput, not cause it's crap. It can only repeat what it can hear! Full WiFi means zero when it can't hear the signal.
this is what i was looking for...wont buy this.
that is not how to use them
I currently have 27 ping 2.07 dowload and 0.11 upload
😱
My guy those are rookie numbers I have 0.73 download and 0.13 upload I bought this thing and I hope it will help
Bryan Hijam I get mine td I’ll try to remember to tell u how it is
Egner 513 Thanks
Egner 513 I just got mine and I’ve spent the last hour testing the thing out and I have to say... that this thing is an absolute piece of shit. It some how managed to make my already horrible internet connection twice as worse
Dude I have 1.5 mbs high
Use the Ethernet port on the extender and plug it on your pc and test it again... Magic xd maybe
🤔
@@theTechNotice did it speed up?
Tech Notice did you try it how did it work
5:46
It looks like you don't know what are you doing.
You don't know what are you extending and you are extending the wrong thing.
This is ridiculous.
Please just call an IT guy specialized in wifi.
Pay the man, you do pay for food, right?!?
STOP SAYING "SO"!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brit...
virgin media
:):(
So much wrong with this video. Don't even know where to start. I'd be wary of taking any tech advice from this channel.
You said that it told you to move it even further from the router and you didn't listen. you said i'm not going to do that. you should update you test.
$dinkjon
$dinkjon
Same here
TO MUCH ANNOYING "VIDEO JUMPING"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fade
Second
getting fit! :D
$dinkjon