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Paul
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2025
An area of out home is a substantial distance from our cable modem and router, with a number of walls in between. The WiFi strength on that side of the house was a lot weaker than I wanted. There's an Ethernet cable strung to that part of the building, and twenty bucks seemed like a reasonable risk, so I grabbed this router and set it up as an access point. Set up was painless, and it's working just fine.This unit is 2.4 GHz only, so if you need 5GHz for some reason, look elsewhere. The lower frequency is just fine for my needs.
Ron Anderson
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2025
I got this as a client to hook up to my main router from my wireless modem. The setup was a breeze. It gives you a simple quick start guide to get you into the access point and then walks you through what type of device you want to set it up to be. I had it up and running is less than 10 minutes. It looks nice and can be wall mounted or just sat on a table, desk, or shelf. It includes a decent length power cord and ethernet cable. The connection and speed have been stable and consistent.
Samuel T.
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2025
If you want to use this as a Wireless AP for a room away from your modem, then don't. My cables are fine, the setup works, but it gets less than 1/10 of the speed of my original access point even when wired to the modem. It is of my opinion that the router most likely acts as a range extender even when in wired ap mode, resulting in virtually no signal in the room that I set it in. Get a better 40 dollar one from a more reputable seller than this garbage.
Ryan Jaeger
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2024
I bought this access point for my younger brother because he was unable to connect his older devices (Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, etc.) to our home internet. I believe that this was due to the security software inside our main router. I got this access point so that he could basically bypass the security software. When we tried to connect the devices to this access point, his devices connected flawlessly! Given that this access point is single band (2.4ghz only) the speed is somewhat on the slower side, which is expected. We have 500mbps service at the main router, and I was getting about 100mbps at most on the access point. That number was better than what I expected for how cheap the unit is. Overall, I am very pleased with this cost effective solution and I won’t see Ethernet cables running across the floor anymore!
Caroline Taylor
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024
Our internet provider updated our equipment to 5G service with "automatic" 2G, instead of a dedicated 2G service. The problem with that was we have numerous devices (security cameras, network bridge for our window blinds, thermostat for our HVAC, etc.) that will only run on 2G, and they wouldn't pick up the "auto 2G". We contacted all of the vendors for the items that just stopped working and they gave us many "work-arounds" that didn't work. Our internet provider didn't feel as that they needed to provide us with equipment that would make everything in our home work again, so it fell to us to find something. We weren't really happy with any of these companies, but what were we going to do? We had invested in these items and we wanted them to work. So we found this little gem, at a very reasonable price. Relatively easy to install and now we're online again, and all is working well.
Mark Keith
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2024
Using this to connect home automation and IIOT devices because my EERO pro cannot manage to create a dedicated 2.4ghz SSID. The firmware has all the expected control that is missing from a fancy EERO mesh solution ( 20X the cost). My specific use case is to ensure reliable connectivity to a Hunter Hydrawise irrigation controller that was constantly switching between mesh points causing the backend to fail. Using this access point I was able to lock it to a dedicated 2.4ghz channel and now have 100% reliability. all access is whitelisted at the main router so security isnt a concern.update - quite a lot of security concerns. not a problem in my application but check the news. dropping a star for that reason.
Tuan V. Le
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2024
In case you may not know, most of your smart devices that connect to your WiFi like garage opener, flood light camera, door bell camera, smart lock, thermostat, etc., only works with WiFi that runs on 2.4 Ghz instead of 5 Ghz. If your wireless router has a dual band, but won’t let you configure different SSDI for each band, your smart devices won’t work properly and you may need to reset the connect on the device from time to time and it’s very annoying, especially you are not physically at that location. Based on some research, this device is one of the best solutions. It’s affordable, easy setup and supports many different modes. The instruction videos can help you setup the device quickly even if you are not a techie. Highly recommended!
SurreyEel
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023
Keep in mind this is just an access point. It is not intended to function as an all-in-one wireless/wired router. It is good for larger locations where you want to plug several of these into the wired network in different rooms to have strong signal/good throughput everywhere. I have 3 of them.As noted in other reviews - SSL doesn't function - it tries to respond on port 443 but the certificate is either misconfigured or missing and there is no way to install/generate it via the UI (I have both hardware versions 2 and 3 of these with whatever latest firmware available).There are some issues in the Javascript code the login page produces that prevent it opening or completing the loading under some conditions in certain browsers. Best I can describe it is 'finicky'.Another possible minus - the first of these I bought started malfunctioning recently (connects/disconnects even after a reset). This is after at least a couple of years of totally unattended operation and, given the price point, I'm not too disappointed.On the plus side - simple to configure, working SNMP (so you can watch these things in Zabbix), and working SSID-to-VLAN mapping which was important to my use case - these are less SOHO and more enterprise features. Throughput is good.
Sonia Rj. Fl.
Reviewed in Mexico on June 28, 2023
Si tuviera almenos 4 puertos de red sería excelente, pero solo trae UNO, de ahí todo está bien
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