The NETGEAR Universal Wi Fi Range Extender allows you to keep your current wireless equipment and improve coverage to eliminate dead zones, giving you the freedom to roam anywhere in the house and access Internet without worrying about coverage
I bought the Netgear WN2000RPT primarily to get a wired hub away from my Dlink DIR825 router. As a bonus I found that the WN2000RPT signal strength is much better than that of the Dlink router almost anywhere in the house and reaches much further, such as a kids bedroom and an outside patio that had been troublesome. For that it deserves 5 stars. However, its setup after a few days reached a point of me screaming I was going to send it back, only to decide to try "one more thing". That miraculously turned out to work. I'll spare you the contortions the Extender and I went through along the way, but I have quite a lot of experience with networks and this thing drove me to despair.
So here are a few pointers that hopefully may help you:
- my unit does NOT reset to factory default however many times I push the darn reset. That may in fact have been the main part of my problems, but it would not surprise me if other units suffer from the same.
I bought the Netgear WN2000RPT primarily to get a wired hub away from my Dlink DIR825 router. As a bonus I found that the WN2000RPT signal strength is much better than that of the Dlink router almost anywhere in the house and reaches much further, such as a kids bedroom and an outside patio that had been troublesome. For that it deserves 5 stars. However, its setup after a few days reached a point of me screaming I was going to send it back, only to decide to try "one more thing". That miraculously turned out to work. I'll spare you the contortions the Extender and I went through along the way, but I have quite a lot of experience with networks and this thing drove me to despair.So here are a few pointers that hopefully may help you: - my unit does NOT reset to factory default however many times I push the darn reset. That may in fact have been the main part of my problems, but it would not surprise me if other units suffer from the same. -...Read more