20 Best Extender For Xfinity Router (2023 Updated)

This system and experience is OK, but for the price, it should be great. The router and satellites mostly work as advertised, but they do occasionally “drop” internet service. What’s really troubling, is simple, yet necessary things such as firmware/software updates can cause the router to crash, have slow connectivity, or no connectivity.

This is the warning part. the warranty AND live (human) tech support for this product is only for 90 DAYS from date of purchase. Once that has expired, you are on your own for figuring out problems, or you have to pony up even more money(!) to get live tech support Now, for free, Netgear will guide you to their online forum/ web page for tech support, but good luck.

You must post your problem/issue, wait for a response (here’s to hoping the online tech support people know what you are asking/describing the first time), then try to figure out if that solution fixes your problem.

If that solution doesn’t work, it’s back to the drawing board and the online forum. For people that are not tech savvy, this could pose a huge problem. Also, with some of the tech support responses, you will be made to feel like you just fell off the turnip truck or that you are talking to a bunch of “homers.

” The entire tech support process is an unnecessarily drawn out, arduous process that could be made better, by talking to a live person, for FREE. The Orbi app apparently is hit or miss as well, because updates pushed through using the app can cause problems.

In summary, the price does not meet the expectations of what this product should be able to do and the support that should be given. For the price, I feel that I bought great looking sports car, with a 4 cylinder engine.

We have a total of four PS4 consoles, five laptops, 8 phones depending on who is at the house, and sometimes a few tablets connected at one time. The router handles the workload phenomenally, better than others at its price point.

But the whole reason I got it was for the satellite, and things are very buggy when we have it active. Devices connected to it get kicked or have very low speeds despite the satellite having Ethernet backhaul, possibly due to it not being sure which orbi to connect to.

May get a different satellite eventually.

The Orbi router was easy to setup and gives great Wi-Fi coverage in our home. For those of you who believe they need to separate the 2. 4 and 5ghz bands, here is what I did for my setup. Before I did the setup of the Orbi, I created a list of items connected to my old router on the 2.

4 band and another list of what was connected on the 5ghz band. When I set up the Orbi I used the 5ghz band SID and password from the old router and then setup the guest network on the Orbi using the 2.

4 SID and password from the old router. After the Orbi setup was complete I took the lists I created from the old router and checked to see if everything connected. Everything connected including all my Ring equipment and an old wireless print server.

Over the next few days, I gradually moved everything off the guest network I created and now everything is on the one Orbi SID. Having everything on one SID will make setting up new items on the network easier instead of having separate SIDS for the 2.

4 and 5ghz bands. Love the Orbi and so far, it works great!.

Full disclosure. I purchased NETGEAR Orbi 753S from Costco not Amazon, because Costco offered 1 year of Free Technical Support not NETGEAR’s 90 Day standard Technical Support contract. After Unboxing and setting up, I already had my first call into Technical Support, as the product was not plug and play like advertised.

Many devices that use 2. 4G not 5G had issues trying to connect to system. Trying to get help from Tech. Support is impossible! After long wait times on hold (30 minutes to over 1 hour) you will hit a call center based in a foreign country, so language barriers exist and are quite prevalent.

The system seems to be very quirky, as it may work for multiple days and weeks flawlessly, but then for no reason, quite working altogether or have satellites drop in and out causing your wi-fi connected devices to stop functioning properly.

The system is set up with warning lights on the router and the satellites to warn you of issues with the system, but unfortunately ghost lights do occur according to Tech. Support, and they have no solutions to fix the issue.

Costco 1 year Technical Support is not worth the paper (Box) it is written on, because after the 90 days I have spoken with multiple technicians who want to charge you on a per call basis to fix the issue, which never really seems to get resolved.

Unless you are a programmer, or no something about programming, Technical support often leads you through going to a login, and completing multiple steps (writing code) which is supposed to fix the issues, but never does.

NETGEAR is interested in the initial sale of the Orbi, and then signing you up for a service contract after the free 90 days of support that can cost anywhere from $140 to $220. That may work for you, but when you have a product that is warranted for 1 year, try getting your product repaired or replaced for free when Technical support won’t even talk to you because you have not signed up for their service contract.

This is pure extortion on NETGEARS part because they know that they have a product that will need Technical help at some point, and if you are unwilling to pay for it, you basically have a paperweight not a router with Wi-Fi extenders.

DO NOT BUY! This issue seems to be prevelant on all NETGEAR Routers and Extenders!.

I bought this system to provide wifi for our small church. We have roughly 5000 sq. ft. of space, so I purchased the 2 satellite version, but one may have been enough. I was getting pretty good coverage before plugging in the second unit.

Setup is not complicated, but it is helpful to read the instructions to understand how the system is designed. The units all look the same. The router is identifiable only by the stickers on it. Each unit has its own set of LAN ports.

By default, it comes with profiles for each of the 4 SSIDs that indicate how each might be used: Administration, employee devices, Internet of Things (IOT), and guest. The guest setup assumes you will want to obtain and agreement for terms of use before proceeding.

The network shows as unsecured. The password you set it taken as part of the agreement process. There does not seem to be a way to change this behavior, but it may be that I missed it. The Virtual LAN (VLAN) profiles can be changed for each SSID, and that determines the level of access each client has and whether it can see other clients on the network.

Since I did not want to use the agreement process at this time and we don’t really need a separate employee network, I applied the guest profile to the employee SSID to create the standard wifi password connection I was looking for.

The routers interface is easy enough to use, but one should be aware that when configuring the wifi profiles changes must be applied before leaving the tab for that network, and the process of saving the changes seems to take much longer than it should, apparently due to the way that the router shares it’s configuration with the satellites.

The router does have features for virtual DNS and remote management if desired, as well as facility for creating a DMZ for Internet facing servers. We have not yet put any real stress on the network, but throughput seems to be good.

I may need to update this after we’ve had more time with it, but so far it seems like a solid system. I will be considering a Netgear product the next time I need a new router for my home.

We have subscribed to Gigabit internet service for a couple of years and since my home office is the furthest distance away from the wifi router, I would struggle with much slower speeds and internet stability/connectivity issues during video calls.

I started researching mesh wifi router systems which led me to the Orbi WiFi 6 system (RBK750 series). Initially, because we live in an older home with plaster walls and other physical obstacles (i. e.

the plumbing, tile and porcelain in bathrooms all likely add some interference), the wifi mesh did help my internet reliability, but it did not help my download speeds. After two cable company visits and more research, it became clear the solution was putting a wifi mesh satellite in my home office and then using an ethernet cable to connect my laptop directly to the satellite.

Even though the signal to the satellite is still coming over the mesh wifi wirelessly, the speeds coming directly out of the satellite via the ethernet cable are VASTLY improved! Before this solution, I was averaging 100Mbps to 150Mbps and a ping of 14 to 18 (using speedtest.

net) to now averaging 500Mbps to 600Mbps and a ping of 9 to 12!! The other satellite in our system with a more direct site line to the main wifi router is averaging 800 Mbps using this same connection setup!! Now that everything is set up, it is working flawlessly and I am very happy with the results!.

Had an old Netgear router with tons of WiFi smart switches connected to it. Some would either randomly lose connection but eventually recover or stays disconnected. For the ones that stay disconnected, I would have to power cycle those devices for them to reconnect.

This would happen randomly every couple week. I decide to give this Google Nest router a try. So far, I haves 0 disconnected device within the pass month. Setup was seamless using the Google Home app.

Found out you can also use Google’s other app called “Google WiFi” which gives you more information about your network. You can use it to setup the nest router, view network setting, view all connected devices, or make network setting changes.

The app itself can run a speed test but it seems inaccurate. Google app shows +200Mbps download speed vs SPEEDTEST app showing ~50Mbps download speed. Currently speed differences are not as important as has long that the network maintain a stable connection, which it has!.

First of all, setup is a complete breeze. As long as you have an existing modem, whether personal or supplied by cable provider, you simply follow the steps on the google home app to configure the initial node, followed by plugging in the other two nodes throughout the house.

There is a three minute video on youtube called “how to install and set up google wifi” that makes setup even easier. All told, it took about 10 minutes to get all three nodes set up. That being said, This item would be good for those that do not use a VPN – you can’t install android VPN apps on the router (even though Google owns Android).

There isn’t even a manual setup option for PPTP or L2TP connections. Most major router brands have some for of 3rd-party router firmware that can be flashed (installed) if you have a little technical know-how.

Popular firmwares like DD-WRT and ASUSWRT-Merlin allow you to unlock extra features, including VPN connectivity. Unfortunately there is no 3rd-party firmware for Google wifi at this time.

With the pandemic I’ve been working from home with varying success using wifi in my garage office. My newer work laptop behaves great, but some of my IoT devices and my personal laptop and phone were really struggling to maintain a connection.

The previous owners had run electricity and coax to the garage but no ethernet. I first tried a set of gigabit powerline adapters, but with the house being on decades-old wiring and separate circuits, I struggled to get above 15-20Mbps.

I went back and exchanged those for these MOCa adapters and was blown away with 560Mbps on a wired connection, even across the 100+ feet between house and garage. My recommendation is to buy two of these even if you have a MOCa-compatible router (like Xfinity) as they seem to play nicer together than when you mix and match hardware.

I also highly recommend replacing your existing splitters in the house with specialised MOCa-compatible ones (1000+ mhz) to achieve top speed. If you have other coax runs which you will not use on MOCa you should also plan to buy a few MOCa filters so that you can push the signal to exactly where you want it.

Highly recommended!.

I am using this for FIOS television. I had run into an issue where I wasn’t seeing the 4K, and, the connections have increased in bandwidth. It works, but, I cannot undo whatever lowered the rate to my 4K TVs.

The older 1 GHz rate was not quite as crystal clear as this. Otherwise it was just a simple swap out of exactly the same components. It comes with some cables, an isolation filter, a wrench, a new power supply.

and booklet to connect for the first time. I just wish that I had bought this model to start with, when I first set up my system.

I installed 2 Deco X20 units in my house, each in a separate floor. Units are operating as Access Points, directly conncted to a TP Link Archer A9 router (Wifi is disabled) as well as using wired backhaul, so overall connection speed is no issue.

Alas, although having relativly strong 5Ghz WiFi signal in most rooms, devices tend to stick with the slower 2. 4Ghz WiFi band. The Deco App have no option to set signal treshold to decide when to move a device from one band to another, resulting with a way lower WiFi speed.

Occasionally i am able to switch from 2. 4Ghz if i restart devices WiFi (android phone) several times when very near one of the units. This is somewhat disapointing as it is a degragation compared to previously using a non-mesh Wifi solution.

The Good: Wifi Speeds were amazing. Nice looking units that fit in nicely on a shelf with existing decor. Easy to do address reservations and port forwarding. The Bad: Limited Features. The router determines whether a device uses 2.

4 or 5ghz signal. Might be great for a regular user, but to me this is annoying because my new iPhone can connect to either, so the router placed it on a 2. 4 channel that yielded slower speeds and there was no way for me to change it like I can do with my old Nighthawk.

It has known compatibility issues with wireless Amcrest cameras (wish I would have known that since I have a system built around Amcrest), Satellite Signal Drops from base station constantly. I bought the system that has 3 satellites and live in a 4,000 sqft house yet they kept disconnecting.

App Issues – It took 3 hrs to get the app to work correctly to finalize setup (I have a nighthawk and am used to the app and it still gave me issues), The other issue with the App is that if you change a device name, it doesn’t translate to the Embedded UI.

Device connectivity to the satellites is an issue because when booting up the system, it seems that the router boots before the satellites thus having everything connect to the base (router). It would be nice if you could also manually move devices to the appropriate satellite, but you can’t do that.

I had a satellite in my finished basement that next to it was a smart TV and a Google Home, both of which would not connect to the satellite next to it, they connected to the router 1 level up. Very frustrating.

I read some blogs about turning signal strength down and that seemed to help, but my wifi range suffered in other areas. I have over 50 devices connected to my router between wired and wifi. I don’t think Orbi liked that many devices (35+ continuously active).

I also read about ways to get Orbi to communicate better by disabling MU-MIMO, but to me that defeats the purpose of a state of the art router. Lastly, Netgear Armor destroyed my connectivity and streaming capabilities.

In theory it was a great idea, but once I disabled it my speeds and streaming ability improved. I like Netgear products, but this one wasn’t for me. I went back to my Netgear Nighthawk X6 R8000 and it performs twice as good with my devices than the Orbi did (even thought I’m comparing Wifi 5 to the Orbi Wifi 6 which doesn’t even compare speedwise).

I think my next step will be the newest Wifi 6 Nighthawk Router. My advice is to do more research before buying Orbi if you’re a power user.

I bought this system because a friend of mine has it and because of the Netgear name. I have even talked a friend of mine to purchase this system on Cyber Monday which he did but was only able to purchase the Router and 1 Satellite instead of the two because the Cart would add it but when you try to go to the next step the cart was empty.

I even tried to purchase it for him and had the same results. I told him to purchase the Router and 1 Satellite to have this system at the reduced price. So I have tried to install the Router several times now and have had no connection between the Modem and the Router.

I have tried to power them up, unplug everything, used a different ethernet cord, moved the Router to a different location and still everything I tried the Router doesn’t connect to the TDS modem with an IP address.

The TDS Modem does put out TCP/IP to things that get plugged into it so I know that the TDS modem is working and that the ports on the back of it work. The TDS modem is a WiFi modem and I do not know if this is an issue but it shouldn’t be since the Netgear Modem is getting plugged directly into the TDS modem.

I do not know if my Netgear Modem is bad because the only way to trouble shoot this is to take it to work and plug it into that network to see if it can obtain an IP from that router. The person (friend of mine) who talked me into this system says that it one of the best and that he has no issues, my friend that I talked into buying this system is in his late 60’s so I guess I will have to go to his place and try to set his up because he is unable to, I think it is more that he is not a Techie so things are harder for him to do.

All in all, I wish I wasn’t having these issues because I believe that Netgear makes great stuff, I have bought Netgear back in the 1990’s when I hosted LAN party’s because they where the best, I hope that the issue is with TDS and not this unit but with the testing that I have done it is pointing to the Router and not my TDS modem.

I had used another whole house solution before changing over to Netgear Orbi, it was the ASUS Mesh system. ASUS worked amazingly and there was no trial for the network security (it was free for life) unlike Netgear Orbi has (30-day trial then pay).

Unfortunately, the ASUS Mesh system after a firmware update broke and online support could not get it to restore. Long story there, I kept at it (resetting to factory default over and over again) and eventually it worked again.

When I would do a speed test wired would show the expected 1GB but WiFi would only show half the speed expected. Called support again, they said it must be the internal antenna going bad. I bought another ASUS set (I needed something as I work from home) because the beginning with the ASUS Mesh was a wonderful experience.

This second set did the same thing. that is a ton of money for something that is not working correctly. Yesterday, I installed/configured my Netgear Orbi system. I chose this system because I am a fan of the gaming and higher end network gear from Netgear for over 20 years (I work in IT) and after research on this mesh system there has been high praise reviews.

I can only hope/pray that my experience with the Netgear Orbi will be as good as the years I have been able to depend reliably on Netgear products. So far, so good! This is covering my entire house (around 26K sqft, two floors, wood construction) with excellent WiFi signal strength.

My husband and I couldn’t both use the internet at the same time for years and he mentioned that it might have something to do with our router but I kind of dismissed the idea. Fast forward 10 years and we’re living through a pandemic and the landscape of our internet use at home has drastically changed from browsing the internet for pleasure to me working full-time at home doing data analysis and my daughter doing school full-time at home too.

We are both on Zoom calls at the same time and need the internet to work. I did some research, including trying to understand what a router actually does, what the different numbers mean, what a family our size needs and what a house our size needs.

All reviews pointed to this router as the best one. I was not expecting the price but it is well worth the money. Unlike another reviewer saying installation was difficult, I thought this was super easy to install and probably took 15 minutes when all was said and done.

Very happy with our purchase. Have had the router for about a month no with no issues.

I have been using the Orbi 4g router for almost a year now and have to say that I love it, the security is amazing. The functionality is incredibly user friendly and the best part is I can take it anywhere in my bag with my laptop and have 4g high speed internet anywhere I go.

The user interface is very easy to manage and understand. I would recommend this 4g router over every other on the market based on my knowledge of most of the others out there solely because of how secure it actually is, and it’s useability user friendliness.

I have been repairing electronics for about 20 years now and I highly recommend this router to anyone who wants the ability to have high speed internet where you might otherwise not be able to get it, or simply because you travel and this can be used in a vehicle quite easily with only an inverter.

I use this product daily and for streaming music nonstop as well as using it for movies and tv occasionally. Highly recommend product.

I already had an Orbi RBR20 and one RBS20 satellite which was working pretty well. I wanted to add a second satellite to get a little better coverage at the far corners of my house where I have a Wi-Fi enabled sprinkler controller on an outside wall and two Wi-Fi enabled garage door openers.

Starting at the result, I got just what I was looking for namely much improved signal strength at the far points from my router. So I am very pleased. I do have to say that the Netgear Orbi RBR20/ RBS20 system can be frustrating in set up.

It’s just hard to believe how much difficulty the router can have finding the satellites. When I first set up this router system two years ago I had difficulty getting the router to locate the satellite which was sitting 25 feet away with no obstacles, walls or appliances in between.

After a dozen or so attempts I ultimately I unplugged the satellite and moved it next to the router and tried to pair them again; that worked. Then I unplugged the satellite, moved it back where I wanted it and plugged it back in.

Low and behold the router found the satellite, mission accomplished. Fast forward to this month and when I got the new satellite I tried the setup as the Orbi app instructs and had no luck. It was the same as last time.

So I moved both satellites nextto the router, reran setup and there they were. I then moved them to where I wanted them and they found each other when plugged in again; mission accomplished. The speed throughout my house including outside at the sprinkler controller and garage door openers is amazing.

Indoors I can watch shows I have recorded on distant recorders with ease. Streaming is a breeze and there are no weak spots in my network.

I bought this for a friend who had an AT&T LTE hotspot. The hotspot barely could reach 8MB download and upload was abysmal. He had it inside his house and placed it everywhere he could, but to no avail.

The AT&T hotspot also had poor in-house coverage in his 1200 square foot house once connected. I bought the AC2200 router and an additional outdoor antenna, coax, etc as we thought the issue was building penetration and antenna gain on the AT&T hotspot.

We received the AC2200 and proceded to install it with the Orbi app as instructed (took a while to download over the AT&T hotspot but we perservered). We installed the AT&T SIM into the AC2200, followed the instructions and crossed our fingers.

The AC2200 recognized the SIM and connected to the AT&T network immediately. We answered a few questions on the app and were up and running with a WiFi connection via LTE before we knew it. Using the Oribi app, one can see the “number of signal bars” that the AC2200 “sees” for signal strength from the AT&T tower.

We hadn’t installed any outdoor antenna at this point. Inside the living room, without a clear view to a window, etc, we had 2 bars of signal strength and the OOKLA speed test came back at 8MB. My friend was estatic as the AT&T modem had spotty coverage there.

I then placed the AC2200 near a window in clear “view” of the AT&T tower (there are web pages on line which show you where the towers are, what LTE bands they use, and their coverage so I knew where to “point” the AC2200).

Immediately, after a reboot, the AC2200 showed 4 bars of signal strength! We ran a few OOKLA speed tests and they consistently showed downlink speed at 50 MB or higher and uplink speed at 8 to 10 MB.

I told my friend my cable supplied internet only does a bit better. Smiles all around. We chose to not install an external antenna as the performance was outstanding without one. Kudo’s to the Netgear antenna and radio engineers (I design wireless systems and antennas for a living) for an incredible job well done.

LTE antennas have to cover a large frequency range and be small enough to fit inside the AC2200 package. Awesome performance. I would, in a heartbeat, buy this product again. (I did actually, and two of my friends neighbors have placed their orders after seeing the performance.

) You may not have the experience I had if you live far from an AT&T tower. My friend is at least 5 miles from his tower and the land is flat. I do think that using an outdoor antenna in places with poor coverage will help a bunch (put the antenna above your roofline so it can see all around).

The antenna I was going to use is a Wilson 4G Omni Plus Building Antenna (they sell on Amazon for about 50 bucks, well worth it, great antenna). We didn’t need it, but I’m keeping the antenna for another day when the AC2200 needs help and we have to install an outdoor antenna on someone else’s house.

I’m a big Netgear fan. I’ve bought a lot of Netgear products over many years and have always been a happy customer. The AC2200 is a great product, well designed, and a great performer. The best part of the whole experience this time was seeing my friend’s wife’s face light up when she said, “WE HAVE WiFi?”.

Priceless. Several days have passed and each day I get a thank you email from either my friend or his wife. BTW. The WiFi coverage of the router is incredible. They have a 1200 square foot house. The AC2200 is placed in one corner of the house (so it “sees” the AT&T antenna the best) and my friends wife’s computer room is in the opposite corner of the house.

The WiFi on her MAC shows 4 bars, and she is getting high LTE data speeds on her MAC. The AT&T hotspot would WiFi would barely cover one room when connected to LTE. Again, your mileage will vary with the LTE experience, but if you want to try an LTE connected WiFi router (and you have AT&T or one of the providers Netgear’s AC2200 has been approved for) you can do no better than the AC2200.

It may cost a little bit more than some of the others out there, believe me, it’s worth it.

I bought this router in 2017 as a backup for the router I was using died. Well, that day came yesterday and I set up this new router today. First router I have been able to set up by myself without calling my ISP provider for assistance.

Took literally minutes with connectivity specs being preprogrammed into the router & my desktop was wirelessly on the ‘net so quickly. Took me far longer to get all my google mini voice activated ‘smart’ plugs, outlets, connected.

If this 80 year old woman can connect quickly, you can, too. Will only ever buy Netgear routers if necessary in the future.

Once we finally got it installed, the NETGEAR R6220-100NAS has been great. I bought it initially because I was hoping it would speed up our wifi, which was from our phone company and really slow (rated for 7Mbps and was always lower).

But it was frustrating to install because the only instructions it came with were to download the Nighthawk app and use that to install the router, but the app tried to locate our existing wifi (our old modem/router from our ISP was still installed) and couldn’t find it.

There was no alternate way to install, and I don’t know what people were supposed to do if they didn’t already have wifi in the house to begin with. Maybe the problem is I was confused, but anyway I set the Netgear aside, intending to return it.

Then COVID-19 came along and we had to get on Zoom and our existing wifi was too slow for that, so we changed our ISP to the cable company. The cable company only provided a modem, not a router, so we needed a new router that was not also a modem.

Good thing I hadn’t gotten around to returning the Netgear router to Staples yet. The new ISP’s installer who came to our house also set up the Netgear router for us. Problem solved! Our new internet is rated for 100Mbps speed via ethernet, though one should usually expect wifi to be slower than the ethernet speed.

The Netgear consistently gives a speed around 42Mbps on the 2. 4Ghz wifi and 117Mbps on 5Ghz. Woohoo!.

I can’t get into the technical details of our issue, but hoping this review may save someone money. We bought our Nighthawk router in ~May of 2020 after a few months of struggling with our wifi when we both started working from home.

While it was an improvement over our Apple Airport (yeah, it was old), we’ve still had spottiness with our wifi and significantly lower speeds than when hard-wired. We even tried changing our internet provider and started paying for increased speeds to see if that was the issue, but we’re now convinced it’s the router.

Less than 2 years later, my partner is currently out purchasing a different router. Given the price tag, we were completely underwhelmed with it’s performance and frustrated at having to replace it in such a short time period.

We are not interested in purchasing another Netgear product after this experience.

The Nighthawk R6900v2 that I bought a few days ago is quite an upgrade from the ancient ASUS RT-N16, meaning that it’s much faster and had far greater range. I finally have full Wi-Fi coverage throughout my house, as well as my yard.

The only con I have is that in order to opt-out of Netgear’s data aggregation, one must send them an email, rather than simply including an opt-out button within the router’s settings. That is really the only gripe I have with my Nighthawk router.

Well, that plus setting it up the first time revealed some major glitches (not accepting my password after upgrading the firmware via their app – I had to reset the router back to factory defaults) but I got it all sorted out.

eventually. Once the headache of setting up the router has been completed, it is a competent piece of equipment. Even though both the Nighthawk and old ASUS RT-N16 have gigabit LAN ports, I have found that using the Internet is noticeably faster with the Nighthawk; it’s not my imagination either.

🙂 Would I recommend the Nighthawk R6900v2 router in spite of its setup warts? Indeed I would!.

I’ve had this router for several years. It finally died several weeks ago and once I replaced I understood just how terrible it was. The biggest issue with it is that I have to login to VPN for work and many things would just become unusable.

I figured it was just a bad VPN, but the several routers I’ve tried since this one died did not have this problem. When it had to be restarted, it would take forever to come online and sometimes would take several iterations of “unplug the modem and router, wait, plug in modem, wait, plug in router, wait.

etc”. The app that comes with it is pretty terrible, I think what killed it in the end was me attempting to update the firmware — the app says “this will take several minutes”. 10 minutes later it was still not back on line so I manually restated it and that seemed to have killed it.

Factory reset does nothing. Honestly I’m very glad that it finally died and my VPN torture is over. Perhaps my router was subtly defective, but I will never buy a Netgear router again.

Installed it directly into the Ethernet port on the router, soon after problems started. Our wifi was dropping connections to equipment left and right. After disconnecting it the problems stopped. Nobody warned us that some type of interference might result.

I’d give it one star but I’ll add another since we couldn’t conclusively test whether or not this was the culprit but it sure seemed that way. There was also no noticeable improvement on the performance of my Sonos speaker connection.

I foolishly threw out the box so now we are stuck with this thing and out $100. Pass on this.

We have a simple Sonos System with Playbase, Sub, and 2 Sonos One SL Surround Speakers. However there are over 17 devices on our WiFi network in a 3000 sq. ft. house and spread over three floors. What we observed was the Surround Speakers dropping off periodically, just going silent.

Did a little research and found that the Sonos Boost can solve this problem by switching the entire Sonos System components to their own (non-WiFi) radio network. Plugged it into an ethernet port on my router, went into the Sonos app and added it to the system and all the Sonos Components switched to communicating through the Boost.

The Surround Speakers stopped dropping off completely.

So out of nowhere, months after setting up and loving a Sonos Beam and two IKEA / Sonos SYMFONISK speakers (for surround sound), the two SYMFONISK speakers would reset themselves and show a blinking LED, disconnecting from the WiFi.

I’m not in a position to use Ethernet to create a wired Sonos network, and also on a mesh Linksys VELOP network. I never knew that Sonos didn’t really support mesh networks until I spoke with their support.

Their support never mentioned this product, but I did more research and figured this may help. It did more than help, I think my setup before (even when it worked) still would cut out intermittently.

Now, (since this hooks up to the main router and creates its own Sonos mesh network) the surround has never sounded better and it fixed the network dropouts immediately. So happy, so worth the $$.

I been paying for charter internet and speed wasnt great even though I was paying for it. Had a tech notion come out and he confirmed my reasons why it wasnt working as fast as it should be. the router.

Their router ran well for 1 level home but at having just moved into a 2 level condo the reach suffered upstairs. So I did some researching and stumbled on mesh routers that handled 2. 5 and 5 ghz networks, but are more on the bit pricey.

Luckily i found one on eBay to test it out and it wouldnt hurt my wallet too much. So far its been great the speed is at maximum and reaches the upstairs easily since its 1,200 sf this 1 mesh point is enough but I could add a second point later if we add more smart home devices which is great because we could move to a larger home and this system would hopefully not be absolute.

Highly recommend it, set up was easy and integrates with other google products.

Works great, only one drawback you should be aware of. the router doesn’t allow you to create a separate network for 2. 4ghz. It automatically pics 2. 4 or 5. 0, so any device that only supports on 2.

4 (for initial configuration), it would be a painful experience. Except the above mentioned caveat, the router is a good piece of technology!!.

I originally bought a three pack of these when we lived in Germany. We lived in the American stairwell housing and it was all made out of solid concrete even the internal walls. You couldn’t get signal all throughout the house no matter what you did.

Then a new technology came out called mesh networks and I jumped on it. I’m pretty invested in the Google ecosystem and these work like a charm. Buy it you won’t be disappointed.