TP-LinkAC1900 WiFi Extender (RE550), Covers Up to 2800 Sq.ft and 35 Devices, 1900Mbps Dual Band Wireless Repeater, Internet Booster, Gigabit Ethernet Port

Just installed it and seems to work well. My wife said it is much better connection now where our bedroom was slow before. Ofcourse, I always update my reviews for updates. If it is still five stars then theres no problem.I used the TPlink app and follow the instructions. it went easy and well. Before receiving the item, I already downloaded the app and created an account. I also watched some YT videos. What my Q. before setup, was about the 2.4ghz and the 5ghz because I have an Xfi router and they are not split. The app asked about the 2.4ghz wifi/pw and after filling it up, It prompted me for the 5ghz, so I wrote the same.Just get ready and write the TPlink repeater password and your router passwords on notepad to copy and paste it for a quicker setup. Also, so you can remember it too. Really easy to follow setup.After, setting it up close to the router, I transferred it upstairs, and all 4 lights lit up blue.

I was in the market for a better range extender, as my old one wasn’t holding up and kept losing its range more regularly, and couldn’t put out a good signal even 15 feet away in a direct line of sight. My Xbox wasn’t liking the old one anymore and is a main reason why I needed to upgrade.I happened to notice a couple of these brand new on a body shops reception desk and immediately searched here for it to read up on later. At the time, they just so happened to be on sale at 40% off and not close to Black Friday.With a range of 2800 square feet, and not hundreds of dollars to get that range; I can even get a pretty decent signal parked in the street, from the other end of a normal middle class house. Well worth the $40 something bucks.Now, I don’t quite have it directly facing my router, more at an angle down the hall next to the kitchen, but even at a 45° angle and probably ~2ft lower than the routers height, I can still get about 250-320 or so during non peak hours of the day, (I have spectrums 1 gig residential plan) sometimes even all weekend. Even approximately 150ft away from the router and out of their recommendations, thanks to 2800 sq ft range, I still average 150mbps or more during normal peak times of the day.Unlike my old range extender, there’s an app to manage, monitor, set up and configure the extender. If there’s any slowness going on, the reboot time is 10x faster than via the old range extenders intranet webpage. I’d still trust ooklas speed test app for tracking and testing the connectivity to make sure it’s as good as it can get; besides, playing a miniature car game while a brief speed test takes place in a separate app is really unnecessary. I can even get notifications if and whenever there’s a new update. I believe that’s automatic anyway.The blue LEDs are quite bright in a completely dark area or room, so I did choose to set up an off and on time. It’s important to me that there are light indicators on, during my normal wake/usage hours. So it automatically turns them on about when the sun rises anyway, and off shortly before getting to sleep. Both manually chosen. Or you can have them off 24/7 by pressing the led button on the re550 itself.It’s been a couple months so far and I’m really impressed with it over all. I truely believe if I had an outlet the same height as my router and I was able to face it directly to my router, I’m sure I could very much get the same neck n neck speeds between the two, wirelessly. So that would make it like having the router on the other end of the house too. Power-line extenders are only as good as the circuit wiring in your walls, otherwise much slower plans would be sufficient.

Easy to setup and works amazingly well. Easily extended my wifi throughout the house to cover the garage for the opener and cameras mounted out there. Copied the settings from my archer ax4400 with just a few clicks and it was up and running

Honestly, this product works better than my wifi modem bc its expanding distance is stronger than my wifi modem. It provide the strong signal for my whole house even upstair and downstair. I just bought it so I am not sure how long it can work well. But fisrt at all, it is worth for that price.

So far, so good. But then again, this unit is only about 15 feet from the modem. I needed it for the ethernet connection to hook up my spare desktop in the bedroom.Start up and connection was quick and easy, IF YOU DON'T FORGET TO HIT THE WPS BUTTON ON YOUR MODEM (if it has one?) when setting up, like I did (they don't remind you of that in the instructions).If anything goes south, I'll be back to update. But so far it works great as described.

The product works great and the signal is excellent even through 3 concrete walls. The installation was very easy through the app, as well as testing the perfect range to plug the extender in. Highly recommended!

Works great as an extender. Ours wifi died at the end of our house, this boosted it way over and now it doesn't die out. It actually works really well for gaming which was our biggest concern.

The product seems to kind of work. What do I mean? I set it up and it seems fine. My downstream speed on the first floor without the device was around 60 mbps on the ps5 and upstream was around 10 mbps. I pay for 500mbps downstream and my router and modem do wifi 5 and are docsis 3.1 so they should easily handle the speed and they do with all other devices. My pc, work laptop, mac, and our two phones on speedtests get around 400 plus mbps downstream. The extender did increase upstream on the ps5 to about 60mbps. That area seems to be a bit of a problem area so I think the device works but not really sure how well. Would I purchase it again? Yeah I would