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The fact is, this actually is a pretty decent, reliable and affective device — WHEN IT IS CORRECTLY INSTALLED, USED AND MOST IMPORTANTLY… UNDERSTOOD…
The reality is that in this day and age, most people have excellent base-routers in their homes. Even the crappy service provider ones are fairly decent devices. The issue with these things, though, is that they are mostly exceptional devices only when they’re using their 5ghz connections. Where most people believe they’re having connectivity problems and their routers need ‘extending’ or ‘boosting’ is almost always when the device they need assisted is trying to connect to their dual-band base routers which can accept either a 2.4ghz or 5ghz device, but in many, if not most, cases the device needing help is ONLY a 2.4ghz item. And then this is where the problems begin.
Home dual-band router these days will almost always prioritize an incoming connection-request from a device into its 5ghz frequency field, even if that request is coming from a 2.4ghz-only device. Result of this is usually connection failure. And so… the unsuspecting person believes it’s an issue with their router needing a boost. Wrong! It’s an issue with their router needing a little discipline! Lol. Not a boost. It needs to be taught to recognize those 2.4ghz devices out there and then to immediately allow those devices a priority to connect immediately to its 2.4ghz band — instead of its 5ghz band. Most routers, especially many newer ones, don’t do this especially well. So… those routers need help. And that’s when and where this beautifully affective extender comes in.
This extender will very specifically have you set up two separate extended bands… one for your router’s 5ghz and another for its 2.4ghz. Once that’s done, and you’re ready to connect something to your WiFi, and it doesn’t work the first few times you try it, then try connecting those things to the now-available newly created ‘extended’ 2.4ghz band. Or if you’re using your phone to connect an item with its own app, like say, smart plugs and/or bulbs, then you absolutely MUST switch your phone’s internal WiFi signal over to that newly created 2.4ghz ‘extended’ network. I guarantee all your connectivity problems with those devices will disappear.
So what’s really happening here is you are making ‘visible’ your home router’s 2.4ghz network to anything that wants to connect to it, whereas beforehand, that network was very likely ‘invisible’ to you prior to using this new extender because unfortunately while all these new dual-band routers are great, they definitely do not like things automatically connecting to their 2.4hhz bands. So you have to ‘force’ that connection down their throats as-it-were.
There are other work-arounds to get your home router to connect to those ‘difficult’ devices, but this is by far the easiest solution — albeit it does mean having to spend some money on one of these WiFi extenders. And it just so happens this is a really good one to do just that.
Don’t blame your router. It just wants to dictate to you which frequency your device must try to marry with. It usually still is, though, very, very good at projecting its own indigenous signal great distances reliably. You just have to find a way to have its 2.4ghz band show up in your devices. And that’s what these ‘extenders’ will do for you. So actually, they’re your friend, not your enemy — especially this particular TP-Link unit.
| Brand | TP-Link |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | TP-LINK |
| Place of Business | Richmond Hill, ON L4B 1J5, CA |
| Model | RE450 |
| Model Name | RE450 |
| Part Number | RE450 |
| Compatible Devices | Smart Television, Smartphone |
| Special features | Dual Band, Access Point Mode, LED Indicator |
| Mounting Hardware | RJ-45 Ethernet Cable, Quick Installation Guide, AC1750 Wi-Fi Range Extender RE450 |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Color Screen | No |
| Voltage | 100240 Volts |
| Wattage | 9 watts |
| Batteries included | No |
| Batteries Required | No |
| Data transfer rate | 1750 Megabits Per Second |
| Wireless Standard | 802.11ac |
| Number of Ports | 1 |
| Connector Type | ethernet, wi-fi, rj45 |
| Does it contain liquid? | No |
| Includes rechargable battery | No |
| Includes Remote | No |
| Manufacturer | TP-LINK |
| Item model number | RE450 |
| Product Dimensions | 7.62 x 16.26 x 6.6 cm; 340.19 g |
| ASIN | B010S6SG3S |
