Wifi Extender Deals & Offers

You can have more than 3 nodes to extend coverage and target specific blindspots. 2 versions. AC6600 and AC3900. 6600 for over 100mbps|gigabit internet connections, Tri band and slightly better coverage over 3900. 3900 for connections under 100mbps and will achieve the same speeds as 6600 give or take 5|10% margin for error.

Depends on how fast your connection with the ISP is. Over 100mbs and the AC6600 will work best for speed and slightly better coverage because of tri-band. Under 100mbs and AC3900 will be better bang for buck.

16 March ebuyer - uk - ltd one time only. I had previously got 3 on an amazon deal of the day and then got 3 more for £193 making them about about £64 each. Only two turned up so they refunded for the third, but offered a replacement at full price.

Wifi 6 It's worth waiting for

I have these, they are good for a 3 bed semi, way faster than my Virgin Superhubs wifi

I think it went back up to £129 on the day you posted, but was £100 direct from google before that

You can't be an apple user?

I still think is pretty limited though. The services on my LG or Hisense TVs are nowhere near as smooth to use or as compatible as the Chromecast usage. Never have any issues with Plex playing anything through the CC Ultra, LG's built in app, however, is just awful. Each to their own though! I broadly agree with your point about hardware, however I think the Pixel phones and Chromecast devices are an example of where they've actually done pretty well.

No the services are accessed direct from the TV rather than streaming them in.

Not sure I agree with the Chromecast being a redundant device. Although totally agree with the stand! The Chromecast function actually isn't built into most TVs, in fact, I use a CC Ultra with my 2018 LG OLED. From memory, isn't it just the Philips / Sony TVs that actually have it baked in?

Mesh is where the various satellites communicate with each other to create a seamless experience whilst traversing your property. They use a single SSID to facilitate this. The strength of the backhaul between the satellites is important though. Orbi has a dedicated 5GHz channel for just this purpose. Some people prefer to use Ethernet cabling to achieve this, which kind of defeats the object for me! The other two are just wireless routers although you can add devices to the Asus to create a mesh system.

In that case you definitely want it. If you have the money take a look at the ap pros. Enterprise level kit at consumer prices. Couldnt be more impressed with mine.

Multiple uses really i suspect, i play games a couple of hours a day, my kids stream all sorts on their tablets, my wife and i both work from home at times so connect via work VPN as well etc. What's mesh and how is it different to whatever the others are?

We're going for plenty of smart home tech so likely to have multiple ethernet points in each room. I'll look into the Ubiquiti stuff, thanks :)

The Asus edges the Nighthawk for me but if you wanted to go mesh then this deal is the most cost effective in my eyes as for the same money as the Asus you already have enough coverage and speed. It does depend on your use case though ie are you a gamer, a streamer or a surfer?

Either by accessing it through a wired connection or a hard reset.

if I turn off the wifi on my virgin superhub how will I turn it on again?

Worked brilliantly for me. I have a 5-bed house and my router is in my office room at the corner of the house, so my poor BT home hub 5 struggles to reach the rest. I ran an ethernet wire down to another room downstairs and connected my old home hub 3 as an AP which kind of worked ok, except that whenever I watched BT Sport nobody could get any WiFi throughput. I stuck these into 4 corners of the house and turned off all the BT WiFi and everywhere in the house gets full 3 bars of signal and full speed on my speedtest app. I only get ~42Mbs internet because I'm in the sticks and no FTTP here, so perfect for me since I don't need the faster speeds of the newer (more expensive) kit.

Log in via it’s 192.168 IP Address and just disable it, so the MW3s handle all the WiFi.

How do I turn the virgin wireless off?

Thanks, I'll expire it.

£166 now

They all require a power supply. The main unit is plugged in to your current modem/router by ethernet and the other 2 connect wirelessly to it. The 2 satellite units also have 2 ethernet ports.

Do these need power to run? Also do they have to wired into some sort of ethernet port all the time or just to set up? Thanks in advance

The lack of children moaning about the "rubbish Wifi" after installing this bad boy is worth every penny. Has worked flawlessly since I installed it a few weeks ago.Fast WiFi everywhere with the option to "port in" at every hub but they don't need to use it.One of my better purchases : Great price, I paid £159 for the same @ Amazon

One more update - weirdly, moving the satellite to a plug socket less than 2m away doubled the speed to over 40mb. Worth experimenting with positioning, it seems!

Got it set up now. Works reliably in the garage and gets me a decent signal in lots of the garden, too. The connection to the satellite is shown as amber, though, and I'm getting just over 20Mb from the garage. I guess I'd get a better signal if I bought a 2nd satellite, but this speed is quite adequate for streaming. I think it's a nicer solution than a homeplug, but I don't know if I'd bother getting one if I already had a homeplug working. Of course, a lot will depend on distance and on the construction of the buildings.

Would love to hear your review from the garage to the lounge, I have a similar office shed and home plug is giving me just about 20mb wired, would love to try the orb as an alternative

Yep

Do these work with Vodafone fibre?

Got a few of these - same price at Amazon and also 3 for £44.99 (a bit cheaper per unit) if you want/need 3.

These are one of the best multi-node systems for consumer market. I tested over 12 different multinode devices last year (for ISP's) and these came out on top.

time to jump on Netgear Orbi in for one hope it will work well people review are very confusing on Amazon

These were great for me, wanted wifi in the garage down the bottom of the garden (powerline wouldn't work), put two in my house, one in my garage. have great wifi coverage over a much larger area now. Plug and play - excellent value for money in my opinion.

For less than this money you could get two nice and very efficient unifi access points. Prosumer stuff.

Save your money, absolute waste of time. They are no better than a good ASUS or stick with powerline.

I have owned a few different brands from chinese suppliers and have now settled for these, they seem to work and are reliable. I had al sorts of problems with the cheaper brands such as lost connections, not turning on and off at the set times. My time is worth more than saving 6 quid or so on an inferior product. Of course there will be those who have no problems.

I'm considering getting some smart plugs for my parents. I'm new to the idea - what are the main features I should be looking for? Are the Sonoff generally the cheapest? I don't need the most feature rich units, just ones that are solid and reliable as if there are any issues, it will be down to me to sort them out ;)

Yes it has scheduling and timer etc pretty good bit of kit for the price

My worry was they would disappear, app would become obselete etc. But they're still introducing new products, including things like thermostats and radiator thermostats etc. That's why I bought meross and not other brands who rebadge generic stuff from China. They have a website too. Also a big reason was a lot of the individual plugs had buttons on the side. Now I hardly use the manual button but having it on the side made it inaccessible on double sockets and strips, meross is on the top. Also their Led light doesn't light up my room like the Blackpool illunimations, TP-link is so bright I've covered the button with electrical tape. That said the TP-link have been very reliable, I've got 5 and in the couple of years I've had them I've only had to reset a plug 2 times. So it's not as if you've bought a dud. I thought worth mentioning - if you do buy another brand, then you can create scene's and commands in the Alexa app using different eco systems. For example I have a 'Alexa goodnight' command, that turns off my TV (tp-link plug) Floorlamp (meross strip socket), table lamp (meross plug), all downstairs hue bulbs, and turns on stairway hue bulb. You can combine all the different brands into one command in Alexa so I assume you can with google too.

I rather wait for the updated version with energy monitor function