Review on 📡 StarTech.com Wireless IR Remote Control Extender - 330 ft / 100m - IR to RF - Infrared Repeater - Cable Box IR Extender - IR Repeater Kit (IREXT2), Gray by Kim Fukushima

After looking at several other reviews that were disappointed with the range or simply said it wouldn't work with DirecTV or any other setup, I went ahead and took a chance and bought one anyway. I cannot stress enough how important your experience with this device can be, and it all depends on careful compliance. We're talking about a ranch in Texas. The fiber optic cable had already been run from the splitter that connected to the DirecTV satellite box in the bedroom of the house to a 30ft by 50ft open pavilion with a tin roof on top. The distance was about 80 feet. The receiver in the bedroom was about 30 cm from the ceiling on the same shelf as the DirecTV satellite box. The transmitter box in the pavilion stood about five feet off the ground on a wooden shelf. Very few obstacles other than the bedroom wall. At first I got nothing. It did not work. I was very frustrated moving the receiver and transmitter around to find a hotspot. So that evening I was about to box it up and send it back to Revain for a refund when I decided to take a good look at what was going on. on the. The bedroom was dimly lit. I walked up the stairs and noticed that through the lens on the receiver you could see a flickering red light inside, quite bright and it was on all the time. So I'm getting an unwanted signal from somewhere. We're talking about interference. First, I decided to play the guy who watches the glitches. I turned off the fluorescent lights in the house, turned off the porch lights, turned off the variable speed fan, and any other suspicious things I could think of. All this was in vain. I ended up placing the device right outside my bedroom window to see if the red light went out and it went out. It was about a foot off the porch floor. I walked over to the gazebo and the device suddenly sprang to life and was able to switch channels almost as fast as I could press the buttons. that is an observation. Every time I took the receiver outside onto the porch but closer to where the satellite set top box was behind the wall, the red light would come on again, killing all the transmitter's efforts in the gazebo . but I decided it would be better to place the receiver on a shelf at a considerable distance from the satellite box. So I took the phone cord, lit the soldering iron, grabbed some heat shrink tubing and added about 10 feet to the power cord as well as the IR blaster cord, of course respecting polarity in both cases. Now the red lights are out about six feet from the porch floor and about 12 feet from the bedroom. Before I did that I was playing with it and there was no red light two meters or more from the box and I couldn't pick anything up on purpose unless I put it back in the bedroom where the satellite box was. Just wanted to play it safe a bit, so 12ft worked great. During the adventure, I tried just putting it on the porch floor, away from the bedroom, and bingo, it still picked up the signal from the gazebo. into the receiver, if you look very closely at a device, you will see a red light that flashes momentarily when someone presses a button on the remote control. If you are solid red on the receiver, your signal has been blocked by the transmitter for a long time and the range is negligible or non-existent. Transmitter can be slightly larger. I've found that if you tilt the emitter about 45 degrees, a small portion of that window opens up and seems to pick up infrared a little better. The maximum distance I could reach was about 20 feet. Adequate, but I wish it was a little more sensitive. However, you can get creative and position the transmitter close enough to where you are seated and it works great. The DirecTV box I have is plastic, not metal like a few years ago. Each receiver is also a low level transmitter. If I had to do it again and saw a flickering red light on the receiver I would turn off the DirecTV box just to see if the red light went out, broadly speaking not a permanent solution. But everything worked out for me. So I'm wondering how many people have given up on this, thinking that the range sucks when they pick up interference in the receiver. I didn't see a word about it in the instructions. Surely there are other satellite boxes made of plastic. The bedroom space is very limited and the satellite box was on a small shelf and the choice to go outside made more sense. The porch has a good solid roof and I doubt rain will play a big role. There is also no sunlight on the plastic. Others with less space constraints will likely find space without splicing additional cables. Hope this helps someone. Look for constantly flashing red lights on the receiver. And no matter where the interference is, you need to be able to place the receiver where there is none.