NETGEAR Consumer WN1000RP Wireless Range Extender - 54Mbps WiFi Booster for Mobile Devices Review

Possibly the most inefficient product I have ever bought. I've used it multiple times over the course of 9 months in different outlets/rooms/corridors/etc. tested and it turned out that the connection speed is significantly slower than just connecting to the already worst WiFi. Very, very disappointing.

I bought one of these and the configuration couldn't be simpler. Plug it into the wall, wait for the status light to turn green, press the WPS button on the bottom left, and then go to your wireless router and press the WPS button. That's all. It simply adds "_EXT" to your existing Wi-Fi SSID using the same security method and password.

The extender works without further configuration. My main router is a Netgear Nighthawk R8000, so this extender might well work well with its big brother. I *didn't* use the first WPS-based installation method. WPS IS NOT SECURE! Instead, I used the second process, which sets up a WPA-based network. It creates a second network, mynetworkname_EXT. I would like this to really expand the current network, but I'm not sure if that's technically possible. I'll keep playing with it and will update it…