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Review on WiFi router TP-LINK Archer AX73, black by Indal Kumar ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

The product is of good quality, there is only one minor defect.

Before that, I had an Archer 1200 v1 router and, in principle, suited everyone, with the exception of the coverage area and signal strength. In the back room, the signal disappeared, I had to do it through a repeater (but it cuts the speed). I read the review of this router, I was interested in support for wi-fi 6, higher speeds, new encryption protocols (WPA3), the presence of as many as 6 antennas, the appearance again. I looked at the price - 7K, acceptable for me, I saw "gaming" routers for 20K+ and this, IMHO, is an overprice and marketing. Actually, there were no problems with setting up and connecting, TP-Link has been fine with this for a long time, first you connect to its "default" wifi network, do the basic settings, incl. connection to the provider, your wifi, then reboot, connect to its new address, through the web interface you make advanced settings. Problems started later when the TL-WA855RE v1 refused to connect to the router. More precisely, he connected, but stubbornly refused to see the Internet! After shamanism and dancing with tambourines, it turned out that the repeater does not support WPA3, I had to lower the security to WPA / WPA2 in the guest network, then it worked. On the second day, another problem was discovered - the Elari Smart Bot robot vacuum cleaner refused to be detected in the application when connected to wifi 2.4GHz, and this has not yet been defeated. But the main disadvantage is that neither the signal strength nor the coverage area has become larger. The router is installed in the same place where the old one was. And that there are 3 antennas, that this one has 6 (4 of them for 5G) - there is no difference! When connected to 5GHz wifi, both Tab S6 and iPhone XS both show max. 866Mbit (where are the promised gigabits?!), and the speed of the Internet is not the maximum. I tried setting channels manually instead of auto - clients couldn't connect at all. And, again, you go to another room, where the speed drops significantly. As a result, in fact, with this purchase, I didn’t really gain anything, but even lost something. Archer 1200 is no worse than this model (Internet is stable at 600Mbps), but it costs half as much.

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Pros
  • + Wi-Fi 6, WPA3 support + simple and convenient setup + 4 year warranty, 2022 technical support + appearance + price
Cons
  • - range and signal strength - incompatibility with some devices

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