Wifi Extender Deals & Offers

This or the bigger vellop??

Ubiquity is better

Have had the RBK43 3-pack for ~6 months now and can't recommend it highly enough - we get excellent coverage across the house and near 100% of the 200mbps bandwidth from our Virgin connection over the wireless network

Very useful to know, thanks!

There's differences in wi-fi speed, back-haul bandwidth, USB Ports, Ethernet ports and internal memory between some of the different options, so it's worth having a good look at the details in the link above before deciding what option is best for you, And considering the "handover" between satellite units can be problematic sometimes, i'd recommend going for a 2 pack of the bigger units instead of 3 of the smaller ones.

They cancelled my order as well. They already refunded me

Mine got cancelled this morning due to a problem with the batch of products, load of rubbish, probably over subscribed. Funny got email last week saying dispatched lol.

Can this be used as a wifi adapter for my desktop?

Ordered one. It wasn’t 4.20 though, was 5.51

I have and it works very well.

Bt should give you the better router .leave them and rejoin?

Had one of these years ago for about £8 at pc world. Rather pointless unless you still only have a 2.4ghz only router or a computer without wireless. Apart from a printer and an ancient laptop all of my kit is AC now. Spend a bit more and get an AC router, will give much better service over time. It is worth remembering that basic 5ghz has a very poor range compared with 2.4.

I, too, bought one at £7.98. I haven't found a way (and an email to BT customer care confirmed the same) to use the access point as a WiFi extender. Perhaps the firmware can be flashed?

Just in case it is not obvious from the description, this access point does 5GHz WiFi only. BT designed it to sit right next to the old 2.4GHz HomeHub routers. I bought a couple of these back when PC World was flogging them for £7.98 delivered a couple of years ago. I am still using the USB WiFi sticks today, which obviously do both 2.4 and 5GHz. Support page for the USB WiFi dongle

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4£ in Asda :)

Only if you place the extender next to the router would it connect at 300mbps which kind of defeats the object. Which is why I don't like them, because if you're placing it to fill a black spot, depending on how big the building is it's going to be half way between the router and the black spot if you can get power there, so you'll be getting 150mbps if you're lucky so you're then at 75mbps at the extender connections. If you're on 200mbps fibre then you're going to notice.

Only your internal transfer rate is halved, not your broadband bandwidth. Most routers and devices run at 300Mb/s on internal transfer rates. As long as your actual broadband bandwidth isn't higher than your internal bandwidth then you'll never experience a lower speed as a result of these and those who do.. don't need to worry because they still have 150Mb/s broadband speeds.

I didn't say they were useless, I said they halve the bandwidth. If you've got the throughput overhead to be able to loose then they're fine. I find it better to just use power lines and now my sky q is effectively mesh I have no dead spots.

Just put all 3 units in a sequential line. Base 15m to Module1 15m to Module2. Should be more than enough. Then experiment moving module1 from the base to maybe 20m and remove Module2.

Arrived next day. Easy to install the first cube and the others are plug and play. Tenda app required for installation. Sonos works fine as it’s working from a dedicated network. Normally they don’t work well with extenders so having their own network works fine. Plug Play Forget.

Please does anyone know the range of these as we have a stpidly long extension that struggles with wifi as the router is about 40 metres away through several walls. Thanks

These are rubbish. I sent mine back. I paid 180 at the time. There’s a reason they’re priced this low. Edit, I had an MW6. In that case I’d hate to see what this lower model is like. If you want a decent mesh network get the AmpliFi HD.

Mine arrived today, absolutely superb for the money. Full speed broadband in the whole house! Can't recommend highly enough

I've just picked one up mainly to have the use of its ethernet socket, which my MiFi doesn't have, so I can plug in an IP camera.

I've been using a similar TP-link Wifi extender (though a different model) and eventually gave up on it. It does extend the range a little but constantly drops out and needs to be switched off and on again. The wireless connection around the house is far less reliable when using the extender with the most irritating thing being that when the extender drops out it seems to take all the wireless devices with it, even if they are in range of the router. Also my phone etc still appears to be connected to the wireless network, even though the extender has lost its connection to the router, so I'd miss emails and other notifications until I realised and reset the extender.

If you want better range in your house and more consistent speeds lookup mesh routers/kits....wired always better but if not an option, mesh are the way to go

I spent £50 on a ‘higher end’ model and in all fairness it does work. It can lose signal at times though and requires the occasional reboot. For this price, worth giving it a try.

Arrr I see. OK thanks darling (flirt)

As far as I'm aware those devices are only for a wired ethernet cable to go through them, so good for connecting up laptops/desktop pcs that are far from the router... Also they are pretty expensive as you pay a lot for the 2000Mbp/s transfer rate even though the fastest internet speeds you're looking at in the UK domestically are around 300Mbp/s (Bt fttp, virgin media fibre and EE Fibre max+) There are powerline adapters that extend wifi, TP-Link TL-WPA4220KIT 2-Port Powerline Adapter WiFi Starter Kit

I set one of these up for a friend (actually a better model) and also couldn't see any improvement.

i have tp link av homeplug 2000 and i need to extend a wifi in the kitchen, will this work?

Useless. tried just that with one last week and it made zero difference. Returned it and swapped for a powerline system. Much better.

I'm not sure about back garden. It emits a wifi network around itself, I've used one in my own home set up to create a wifi signal for my bedroom and that has worked. If you put it as close to the garden as possible, the wifi network could reach all the way into the garden but it depends on how large your garden is and also on a number of different things, glass interferes with wifi signals more than you'd think, so if the door is closed that will have a big negative impact on the signal. It works best when you're in the same room as it, basically.

It’s not pointless. We have one in an outdoor socket to cover the garden and garage. It’s just a relay transceiver for extending range.

Hmm not sure I agree with you on that. The PS4 (bedroom) connects at a low speed to the WiFi router, but I've plugged it into this instead and get a much faster connection speed.

Sorry for the late reply, it was in Stockton store.

Pointless device as they just halve bandwith so your internet gets even slower.

Cold. This was 4 in Asda..Almost national:)

Is RBK50 better than this..this gives more coverage

It’s a good system, I have the RBK30 with just the one satellite and have strong WiFi coverage throughout our house and garden

The faster 2 unit RBK50 comes up at £199 sometimes.

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Item shows one of Netgear RBK30 and one of RBW30? And not two? Correct me if I'm wrong?

Yes

Are these any good, I have a dead zone in my lounge where my phone constantly switches from WiFi to 4g, my switch shows zero Internet but my alexa works fine

Heat added - nice price :)

can this be used with sky Q? great deal by the way. voted hot

Also at Regent Road, Salford

Irvine store had these today thanks OP.

Any body know what ports to forward to get these to give Xbox' s as open nat type ?they were open before but with this plugged in it's now strict. Sainsburys in kirkcauldy Fife has them

i got one the day before your post from asda £15. that was a good price, so £10 is a bargain price. my findings are that this is a great item that does an excellent job. i now get a good signal in my garden. strangely it seems to have made my internet speed faster. even though before i was sat pretty close to the router. it is really simple to set up. press wps on router, press button on tp link. job done in less than a minute.

Plug it in, connect your WiFi to it and go to tplinkrepeater.net (if setting up 1st time, the website loads up itself). Then you just follow on-screen instruction - scan for networks, choose yours, change extended WiFi name and set password (you can keep router password as well). Voilà, all done.

+1 I have this and it’s a one button push on the extender and another on your router to connect. It even has its own app so you can customise it. You can even turn the lights out on it. I have it on my landing and works great as a night light. Never dropped connection once and had it about a year.

Got one and works well. Use it to bridge gap from router to garden by plugging in end of house.

Both choose one or the other I have it and it works fine but if you have a rubbish unreliable router that drops signal even when your near it don’t bother with this

Have this and it’s terrible. Loses connection all the time for some reason. Have reset it to factory settings too but still doesn’t help. Looking into mesh WiFi now or the Uniquiti APs.

Ordered, thanks OP.

Bought these. Great item. Plug and play. No set up. Worked a treat

Hmm - quite disappointed in the performance. I knew not to reasonably expect 100+Mb/s (Using the ethernet port). I have no idea what your '600 Mbps' is supposed to represent when the box claims 100Mb/s. In my flat for two sockets next to each other I could only get aroud ~36Mb/s, slower in real world terms than my Wi-fi. These were supposed to replace running ethernet across my floor, but this just won't do. Yes you can run off the list of environmental issues that can affect speeds but I still feel duped.

Done, doesn't matter anyway I don't think as it's cold.

I think people would be interested in both :). There's enough space to mention it in the title.

Better in what way? It's slower close range, and long range. http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/tp-link/1406022/tp-link-deco-m5-review-a-challenger-for-google-wifis-crown It's better if you want the 2 years AV...

Some advice please if you could? What the difference is between these units and the BT ones? I notice Alexa compatibility mentioned on the TP ones, not sure what use this would be for a WiFi system? Also someone has mentioned Ubiquiti Networks device - would this be better than either of the above?

I've just replaced my M5 setup that i also added a 4th node to. With 2 Ubquiti AP Lite access points. Then installed the controller onto windows. Far better experience. the M5 needed rebooted every 1-2 weeks. Would not connect via App very reliably. The 'Traffic' monitoring, only volume, was useless. Also the hand off between mobile device an nodes sucks.

Got rid of our Cisco set up in work and got the ubiquiti AC ones, very pleased with them

^ What he said.