Review on 📶 D-Link COVR Whole Home Mesh WiFi System AC1200 Dual Band 3-Pack Router Replacement for Wireless Internet Network with Gigabit Ethernet, Coverage up to 5000 Sq. Ft. (COVR-C1203-US) by Brian Young

I bought this to replace my aging Apple Timecapsule/Airport Extreme & Airport Express. Here's how it worked for me: I opened the box and the instructions say to download the app before turning off the existing WiFi. OK I did it. The app requires me to activate LOCATION services or I cannot use the app. Hm. I don't know why they need my location, it's creepy. But I give them that access and everything seems fine from there. My fiber optic modem feeds the Dlink base, and since the Extreme is still running at the airport, I feed it over Dlink's Ethernet cable. After a bit of fiddling, all the knots seem to work, covering the whole house. Using a speed test app on my phone, I get >300Mbps near the base station and no worse than 10Mbps at various angles. The speed should be sufficient for normal use. But the iPhone Wi-Fi says "weak security" and I need to switch from WPA2-TKIP to WPA2-AES. This option is not available on the website and in the app, so I call the DLink service. Pick up the phone without waiting (good). DLink says to update the firmware but not the one in the application, the tech sends me a link to a new firmware that I need to download and install. So I did that, but one of the remote nodes doesn't come back online (it just stays with a red LED that never goes to orange or white). And the new firmware doesn't seem to fix the problem with the iPhone either, although the internet says it's an iPhone problem and most other devices automatically connect via WPA2-AES, so maybe it doesn't matter. So far it has taken about 4 hours. So I'll leave things as they are for about a week and just use the base and one node to see if we're willing to invest time in further troubleshooting. During this week a running remote node is installed near my wife's desktop (about 6 feet away) and the node seems happy - it's receiving a signal and the LED stays white. However, my wife complains that her video call gets stuck in the middle of Zoom calls and the login to some of her remote systems doesn't work due to a timeout. When these problems occur, Apple Airport switches them back and the problem goes away (meaning it's a problem with the Wi-Fi device, not the internet channel in the house). My experience is that sometimes my phone won't load webpages when I'm walking around the house - maybe it's losing the beam? But when it does I check what wi-fi I have and then I check the speed and when I did everything is fine so I don't know what the problem is. In general, Wi-Fi seems to be working to my house, but not instantaneously or reliably. For >150€ I would have wished for better. And my wife isn't happy, so we're done.