WiFi Extender Range Booster, 300Mbps WiFi Booter Extender, Wi-Fi Range Extender with Integrated Antennas Support AP/Repeater Mode and WPS Function, WiFi Repeater with Ethernet Port

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A good extender improves the radio coverage of your network within its current boundaries, thus improving your web-browsing experience—and it’s great for bouncing the signal around obstructions like elevator shafts, reinforced walls, or foundations. The WiFi 6 Repeater 5400 will be overkill for many people, but if you must get a high-speed connection to a distant corner of the house, nothing else out there comes close.

This is important because it means your devices won't have to disconnect from the router's signal and then reconnect to the repeater's signal. That could be because you're running business applications across your network, or because you're in the market for a gaming router or especially a Wi-Fi 6 router.It's worth noting that many Wi-Fi extenders broadcast on a new Wi-Fi network with its own name, so you'll need to connect to a different Wi-Fi signal depending on where you are in your home. Each node serves as a hop point for other nodes in the system, which helps the nodes farthest from the router to deliver a strong Wi-Fi signal as they talk to other nodes and don't rely on one-to-one communications with the router. The Netgear Nighthawk AX8 (EAX80) may be a little older, but with Wi-Fi 6 capabilities and an impressive range, it certainly deserves a spot in this best Wi-Fi extenders list.

We tested for ease of set-up, simplicity of use, good design, strong value and effectiveness of range. There are also Ethernet ports in each adapter, one of which is used to connect the first adapter to the router.They can also use your home’s electrical wiring to transmit the signal, like our Powerline Boosters. It’s the second-fastest Wi-Fi 6 unit we’ve tested, creeping ahead of the Devolo WiFi 6 Repeater 3000, and coming in only just behind the faster WiFi 6 Repeater 5400. If your standalone Wi-Fi router isn’t keeping your laptop or phone reliably connected everywhere in your house, a good Wi-Fi extender is the quickest, cheapest fix, though it’s most effective in an environment with just a single dead zone. Plug computers, streaming devices, game consoles, and anything else you can into the router—or a network switch, if you need more ports—via Ethernet to reduce the number of devices competing for a wireless connection.

Perhaps your master socket isn’t centrally located in your home, so some of your rooms are out of range of the Hub; or maybe you have an office at the end of your garden and your signal needs a boost to reach it.

To help alleviate network congestion, some manufacturers let you dedicate a band for router-to-extender communications.

The device you do this with will become your primary method of controlling your network, so make sure you do it on a prominent device that you can control.If you’re a tinkerer, however, you can also set it up so it uses the faster 5GHz band as a dedicated link to your existing network and the 2. While the design looks rather plasticky, it’s pleasingly slim, sticking out just 37mm from the wall, so you shouldn’t trip over it as you walk past. But for homes built with dense materials like brick, concrete, plaster, and metal, some level of signal degradation is almost a certainty.