Review on Wi-Fi signal amplifier (repeater) TP-LINK RE205, white by Micha Dbrowski ᠌

I am not allowed to hang cables on the walls, I can also spoil the walls, so I have to keep the router at the front door on a shelf. As a result, 2.4 GHz is still somehow caught at the far end of the apartment, but the channels are clogged with neighboring access points, and 5 GHz is generally unrealistic to use. I have accumulated a lot of old routers and I tried to use them to expand coverage, then I switched to PowerLine adapters. But in this apartment there was only one point where it was possible to place equipment and it was extremely inconvenient to use a large router there, and PowerLine refused to work due to the large number of cheap and noisy PSUs for LED lighting on the network. That's when I remembered Wi-Fi signal amplifiers in the form of a small adapter. Since the 2.4 GHz band was very littered, and I was alone at 5 GHz, I was looking for a dual-band model. This adapter turned out to be the cheapest available in our stores. I guess I'm way behind the times, but the ease of setup surprised me a lot. I plugged the adapter into the outlet of the router, connected to it from the tablet, changed its password, chose my main Wi-Fi network, allowed it to use the same names for networks in order to have a seamless coverage. That's all the settings. Then I just took the adapter to its permanent place, waited until all the indicators light up. The main thing is that the result is immediately visible, 30-40 megabits for downloading at 5 GHz in the far corner of the apartment is now available (earlier, 1 megabit was not always). So far I can’t say anything about the stability of the work, a few days have passed, but I want to believe that it will be from the category of “set it and forget it”, like my main router.