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Posted 6 January 2014
TP-Link TL-WR702N Wireless N Nano Router/Range Extender/TV, Gaming, Set-top Adapter with USB Charger £11.99 Delivered @ Amazon
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Been looking for one of these at a decent price and this seems to be the best I can see has anyone got any thoughts on this particular model?
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sorted byCracking bit of kit, if you can get the 703 with 3g slot, even better!
Stick it up a pole under a plastic milk carton, chuck an aerial the pole, solar powered charger, buy a cheap data sim, point it at your phone tower and get 21+ mb home broadband instead of 1.5mb!
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Also got the SKY booster Free which works great hotukdeals.com/dea…750
Heat from me
How about some schematics?
Easy to set up as a repeater/bridge/ I have 3 in the house and use to turn Ethernet devices into wireless devices (xbox, bluray youview etc). No probs, works a treat. Hot.
I'm looking at my TP link and there is no WPS button
Why not, no great hurry for mine, they usually arrive well before estimate anyway.
Client mode
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Sorry if it came across that way Azu! Not intentional, but I have posted this info at least 4 times on hukd and a lot of the info gets lost with the "custom search" that is running on hukd.
Fyi [to date] I have not had anyone experience any type of high network load or throttling, have tested the "idea" on all 5 networks, the hardest part was compliance with the "Oh you cannot do it" hence a polite email to all 5 legal teams at all 5 networks, to "inquire" as to how they can sell / giveaway / include repeaters, aerials, boosters ya ya ya to consumers, who have no "normal" cats chance in hell of getting a 2G signal let alone the new 5G LTEA ones coming!
An omni direction cheapo aerial, works up to 10KM, aerial is just a workaround for the very poor UK mast and ran hardware setup the big 3 have [the other 2 share the same masts] in the UK, T-mobile now let you tether, so with a "-80dcb" [or lower] you should be able to have just as good a wifi set up access to your 3G/4G signal as most crappy home adsl wifi routers allow...
Not for one minute do I pretend to be an expert, but after speaking with the supplying hardware & software company directors [seller & buyer] I seem to know more than the network companies that are buying the new kit for 3G/4G use in the "consumer" world.
If you have a "three all you can eat" tariff, you can do the above [experiment and have a bit of fun doing it!] or a variation of it and get shot of your landline / adsl / cable / paid TV services and do it all over mobile...
ALL the networks are moving to piped 20gb/100gb and soon to be 1TB per dark fibre connections and the company that supplies most of the UK with that route, is actually opening up in the UK, to the point that 1GB lines will be here soon... for the consumers, via mobile, yes a way off with the compression and MIMO [multi in multi out frequencies from the phone masts] but not that far away!
As an example:
DC-HSPA+ [ dual cell / dual channel] running at a max of 22mb on T-mobile / Three [I do not include EE as until they bring data charges down or do a light all-you-can use tariff, waste of time] will give you 3 times the "average" uk broadband landline speed! HSPA+ is ok, but it is limited when it comes to VOICE in the future... the next example.. is not!
Currently running DC-HSDPA [on 3] in the right area, have had 38mb unlimited, unrestricted, not throttled, DL which is 4G speed, without the 4G price tag... also 4G from all the Three masts will be FREE, when they get the distribution right on the power output that is!
Landlines are dead, they are like C90 cassettes, Betamax a thing of the past, that was good at the time... in a few years time, most internet data / use / streaming / storage, will be all mobile, the only use of landlines will be for supplying the actual phone masts with the back haul needed to supply the mast with the guts of mobile broadband...
If every member on hukd, with each network, rang / emailed / tweeted / facebooked that they are UNHAPPY with the signal, speed etc etc, the networks would pull their fingers out and sort it out quicker, so that uk businesses / home workers etc etc are not suffering NOT being able to keep up with towns / cities, just because they are more profitable
It's primary role is as a personal wifi hotspot. I use mine in hotels and in computer rooms to turn a wired connection into a small wifi.
I have had colleagues connect about 10 - 15 feet away but it's best as a room sized hotspot.
You can configure this as a repeater or bridge, eg extend an existing Wifi or join an ethernet device to your WLan, but the latter is not particularly easy to configure (IMO).
£12 is a great price.
Yes on the signal, yes on the easy bit...
To connect to the BTHH3 press the WPS button... wait about 5 secs, press the WPS button on the TP-Link, job done :-)
Simply place the 702 where your Wifi is naff [advise NOT to put it as far away as poss, like in the repeater guides] in a room, near the floor if poss, then your global wifi will be better all over the house, if you still have a naff signal, turn the TP-Link face down and *roughly* point it towards the BTHH3 location using the power socket to the REAR of the TP-Link, to where you are pointing it!
On their way... in the style of a bored, tech geek, with no art skills in anyway oO
I wanted it for the Cat5 connection which it is great at.
Was it dropping now and then? If so, firmware update, setting to WPA2 PSK / AES only security and having no crappy wep devices on wifi N security will help.
Got one in a staff barn where they do video up/down work [not 703] for a repeater, set to N, WPA2 PSK / AES security and next hop is at least 140+ft away, strong 110-130mb+ speed all day long, even in the wind!
Had to go for a walk to check, so sorry there is no reset wps/combo [ours is a 3020 import] button, so instruction is same, but login to tp-link web interface, choose repeater mode, enter your current BTHH3 router key, then put it where you want it!
The only issue I've noticed is that I cannot connect to any wifi on other devices when I'm in the room it lives in. If I turn it off I can connect to the main house wifi again
Link please because I couldn't see it?
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That makes no sense - the whole point of the device is that is extends the signal of your wifi router. Other wifi devices should appear as normal in the same was as if you they were in the same room as the router ??
You make it sound so easy (_;)
Sadly you efforts will be wasted if your being throttled (T-Mobile ¬_¬) or your area is experiencing "high network load"
But what is the homeplug for? If there is another homeplug in the same room as your TiVo, and you can run a cable to it from your TiVo, I'm not sure why you would need this...
you wouldnt need it in that scenario
It seems like stephenr has possibly not set it up right, so that it is not redirecting connections to your main house wifi - if you want it in "repeater" mode, check SSID and security settings match your house wifi. If it is only needed to connect your Linux sat box to your house wifi, then put it in "client" mode and input your SSID and password.
As others have said, do also update the firmware as I believe there was a problem in repeater or bridge mode on the original firmware.
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