EXTENDED WIRELESS COVERAGE: Adds Wi-Fi range coverage up to 1000 sq ft, and connects up to 15 devices such as laptops, smartphones, speakers, IP cameras, tablets, IoT devices, and more..Connectivity protocol:Ethernet,Wi-Fi
AC750 WI-FI SPEED: Provides up to 750Mbps performance using dual-band and patented FastLane(TM) technology.
UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY: Works with any wireless router, gateway, or cable modem with Wi-Fi.
WIRED ETHERNET PORT: Simply plug in game consoles, streaming players, or other nearby wired devices using the one 10/100M port for maximum speed.
SAFE & SECURE: Supports WEP and WPA/WPA2 wireless security protocols.
SIMPLE TO SETUP: Press the WPS button to connect to your router. Use the NETGEAR WiFi Analyzer app for optimal location.
Wireless Type
802.11n, 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11ac
Number of USB 2.0 Ports
1
Number of USB 3.0 Ports
1
Brand
NETGEAR
Series
Range Extender
Item model number
EX3700-100NAS
Operating System
Microsoft. Internet Explorer. 8.0, Firefox. 20, Safari. 5.1, Google Chrome 25.0 browsers or higher
Item Weight
4.6 ounces
Product Dimensions
2.64 x 1.54 x 2.17 inches
Item Dimensions LxWxH
2.64 x 1.54 x 2.17 inches
Color
White
Voltage
120240 Volts
Manufacturer
Netgear Inc
Country of Origin
China
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer
No
Date First Available
February 6, 2015
7 reviews for NETGEAR Wi-Fi Range Extender EX3700 – Coverage Up to 1000 Sq Ft and 15 Devices with AC750 Dual Band Wireless Signal Booster & Repeater (Up to…
Rated 5 out of 5
Brian –
Has worked extremely well for 2-3 months now. I haven’t had any outages longer than a half hour or so and only have had one of those that I’ve ever noticed. As our family is a heavy user of wifi, we’d know if there were major issues.
The setup was very easy and my least favorite part of the whole device is that it adds _EXT at the end of my wifi network name. The range is much better than my router and has been effective in covering my house.
Rated 1 out of 5
Amazon Customer –
Good for if you plan on hooking up a printer across your yard in your shed for some reason but probably nothing else. I set this up beside my router and it will not pass 20MB/s. On the website control panel it states it has a signal of 144MB/s (keep in mind it is plugged in within a foot of the high-speed router) and will go up to 145MB/s but regularly sits around 10MB/s download. Testing my main network in the exact same position shows me at 250+MB/s. Pretty huge difference.
Rated 5 out of 5
Trip Williams –
We use these to provide SOLID coverage over the ENTIRETY of our Mountain Top Ranch (about 10 Acres on Top of the “Plateau” where our Home, Recreational Areas, and Upper Pastures are located. We also use them “Daisy-Chained Together” to cover our DEEP Valleys surrounding our Mountain.
Each Extender is named “(Our SSID Name)_(Area Of Coverage)”.. Example: “Our-Router_West” is the extender that covers the Western Top Part Of Our Ranch. When we “Link” or “Daisy Chain” several of these together to provide WiFi coverage down in the Valleys surrounding our Mountain, We use a format like “Our-Router_West1” (“The FIRST ‘Daisy Chained’ Western Netgear Extender, Connected to the MAIN Netgear Extender that covers the Western Part of the TOP of our Ranch, Which is Connected Directly to our Home’s Router”), “Our-Router_West2” (“The SECOND Netgear Western Extender, which is Daisy-Chain-Connected to the FIRST Western Extender, Which is connected to the Main Western Netgear Extender, Which is connected to our Home’s Router” – That’s a total of THREE Netgear Extenders, Covering the Western Areas Of Our Property, Up top, and down in the Western Valley) etc. etc…
You start losing ‘Throughput Speed’ FAST when Daisy Chaining these units together, but at least you still have “More than Decent” WiFi Coverage, even (ESPECIALLY) in areas where Cell Coverage can be spotty (Like down in our Steep Valley to our North, Where our Natural Springs run, which is a pretty sheer 600 Foot Drop in Elevation, with only a few hundred feet of Width before Climbing UPWARD again to more of our property.. Cell Coverage down there is ‘WISHFUL THINKING’ at best, even with a Cell Tower Company Renting some space we don’t use to place a Mini-Cell-Tower on our Property, so the Cell Companies can cut STRAIGHT ACROSS this HUGE Bowl of Mountains in the Area we live in, to provide Coverage to SEVERAL State Parks, WITHOUT having to run MULTIPLE towers on the Mountains that Surround us in the distance, 360 degrees.. Imagine a “Pound Cake Bowl”… The Edges of the Bowl would be the Mountains surrounding us in the distance, and the Plateau Sticking up in the center of the Bowl, is where WE live). Our iPhones will use “WiFi” to place calls, when they can’t get Cell Coverage, so it works out GREAT for us!
Recently, One of our Family Members built a home on land I gave them up here, about 900 “Air Feet” away from our house (So they don’t have to see/hear us, and we don’t have to see/hear them).. When I bought this mountain, NO Utility Company would TOUCH IT as far as “Providing Lines this far from Their Main Lines”, So I had to buy all of the Power/Cable/Water/etc lines myself, and hire Contractors to run them all up here (Buried).. I sized ALL of the Utilities to be able to support 10 homes eventually, as our Children can afford to build up here once they are at a place in life where they can work from home if they wish, Or build a “Vacation Home” up here until they CAN live up here full time… I bought HUGE spools of BIG Fiber-Optic Cable Line from ‘Corning’, and had contractors run it a LONG way, to the Local Cable Company’s Main Lines, that Carry Cable TV/Internet between Counties (Same for Power Lines, etc). So we have a LOT more High Speed Bandwidth than I need, Even working from home…
Until our Family Member who just built a home here can afford to connect to our Main Fiber Line to get Cable Internet of their own, I bought Two more of these Netgear units, and Daisy-Chained them together toward their new house, which is East of ours. I Fully expected to need THREE Extenders to run 900 “Air-Feet”, But TWO of them (One set in about the middle of one of our Upper Pastures, and the Second Unit Plugged into their Enclosed Screen-Room on their Back Porch) provides them with Decently fast WiFi Internet!!! We DO live WAY OUT in the middle of nowhere, without “Other signals everywhere to shorten the range of the signals WE produce” (for many different things), so YMMV if you live in a Suburb or something, but they work FLAWLESSLY up here for us.
ALL of the FIRST “Main” Netgear Extenders are placed outside our home, in a Waterproof (But “Signal Transparent”) Enclosure. Those First Extenders are simply used to grab the WiFi Signal from our Main Router inside our house (Going through “THICK Stone Walls” is TOUGH for even THE BEST WiFi Router!) and then “Extend The WiFi Signal Out Across our Property”… We have Four of these, Set North/South/East/West around the outside of our home, each about 50 Feet away from our Home.
I’ve found it’s easiest just to set up each unit by going to Netgear’s site when you find the extender on your device, creating a login, and then you can change ALL of your Units from a Netgear Book-Mark TO EACH UNIT (You REALLY need to have a separate Netgear Bookmark for EACH extender!). From those bookmarks, You can rename each unit, set it’s signal strength, see what’s connected to it, AND how good the Signal Strength is, TO AND FROM, each unit, etc.
I also found that if you just connect your iPhone (or whatever you may be carrying around) to EACH unit ONCE, let your device store that information, Then choose the option on your device to “Connect Automatically To Known Networks (with better signal strength)”, Then we can walk, ride the Horses or ATVs, pretty much anywhere, and our iPhones switch from Extender Unit to Extender Unit without even hesitating! Our Devices connect to the Extenders with better Signal Strength as we travel around outside Seamlessly. We never even know when the device has swapped connections from one extender to another.
Normally this is where I’d say, “For the Price These Can’t Be Beat’… But I’ve Paid MUCH MORE for WiFi Extenders that didn’t perform HALF as well as these do! “And For The Price”, you can scatter them everywhere over large areas.
“Tech Tip”: Lightly MIST the INSIDE of a clear “Cake Platter” CD/DVD Bulk Storage Dome with WHITE paint (To reflect the Sun’s Heat AWAY from the Cake-Platter, and keep UV OFF the Extenders), Run an Outdoor-Rated Extension Cord through a hole in the bottom of the Cake Patter Storage Case (created when you cut the Center Spindle out of the base), Hot-Glue the Extension Cord in Place close to the bottom of the case, AND to close up the Gaps in the Bottom Hole to keep the bugs out, And you have a HIGHLY decent “Outdoor, Weather Resistant, Signal Transparent, WiFi Signal Extender Dome”
I simply set up each new unit here in the house, log in to the Netgear Website, Choose which OTHER unit I want the NEW unit to connect to (either our Main Router, OR one of the Extenders out further from the house), and let the NetGear Site set it up for me (Bookmark the Netgear Site Associated with EACH INDIVIDUAL UNIT!).. Then I unplug the unit, take to where I need it, Plug it back in to Power, and it’s good to go! Once we allow ALL of our Devices (iPhones, Palm-Tops, etc) to connect to each extender and save it as a “known Network”, I turn OFF the “Broadcast SSID” Option, so no one else sees the (Now HUGE) WiFi Network “Publicly” (without Special Software, or a Signal Sniffer, etc).. But even if someone DID happen to somehow get onto our Property, past all of our Security Fences, and Security Systems, and find the WiFi Signal, well, that’s what STRONG PASSWORDS, Encryption, And FIREWALLS are for! It can be a pain, but our Main Router is Set-Up to ONLY allow use by “Devices We Specifically Allow”. “Guests” are allowed to connect to a “GUEST ACCOUNT”, which puts them on a Secondary Network, so if their devices are Compromised, or have a Virus/Worm/etc, it can’t propagate through to other devices on our Main Network. And if their devices contain a Keystroke logger, then whoever is reading the Logger’s Output only has a Guest Password, WHICH CHANGES EVERY 10 DAYS, and Each Guest has a PERSONAL password that identifies THEM.. We do it that way so that if a Month from now, someone we don’t know starts trying to hack into our network using an old Guest Password [Like: “glenn-1s-C00l-0CT”] that was used by a friend that visited recently, we know to contact THAT friend and tell them they’ve been compromised (“glenn-1s-C00l-0CT”, LOOKS like, “Glenn-Is-Cool-Oct”, But what it ACTUALLY tells US is “It was “Glenn”, “First Part” [1s] “Of October”)… But even then Our Router wouldn’t even respond to a MAC Address that’s not CURRENTLY on the “Guest List” marked as “Allowed”, so even someone Spoofing his MAC Address wouldn’t work, since his Guest Access was COMPLETELY deleted the day he left.
Probably 10 Times More than you Wanted to know, But nowadays Security Risks are VERY REAL, VERY possible, and that’s even MORE of a Concern When you have WiFi COMPLETELY Covering Tens Of Acres. These are VERY useful Items!
Rated 5 out of 5
Ben –
I have this plugged in about 200ft from the router. It extends the signal easily another 150ft. This is in an office with concrete block walls.
Rated 5 out of 5
Ronald in the South –
After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.
Rated 5 out of 5
Mary S. –
This little box was such a necessity in our house! It was super easy to set up and use. Plug it into an outlet about half way between your wifi and where it will extend to. Log onto the extender with a wireless device and it takes you to a sign up page, to edit passwords and such. Initially you have to enter your existing password to your wifi and set up some secret questions, then you are connected! Each device connecting to it will have to enter the new password. You can change the name and password of your new connection through the extender if you want or keep it the same password as your wifi. Two minutes to set up online and BINGO that’s it! Super fast with our wifi speed of 60mbps. We are loving it and well worth the money!
Rated 1 out of 5
Big Will –
This was my 2nd Wi-Fi extender that I bought. 1st from Netgear. It worked GREAT for the first 5 months. I have mine plugged in the garage. The range is great. The past few weeks.. It just started to cut out. Every 20 mins it will just go dead. I have to unplug and plug it back in.
This happened to the 1st one I bought from another company. The little boxes run pretty HOT. 🔥 A little too hot for my liking.
I need to buy a new one. But I am going to unplug it at night when I’m not using it. Maybe extend the lifetime.
These things .. No matter what company seem to last a year.. And then start messing up
Brian –
Has worked extremely well for 2-3 months now. I haven’t had any outages longer than a half hour or so and only have had one of those that I’ve ever noticed. As our family is a heavy user of wifi, we’d know if there were major issues.
The setup was very easy and my least favorite part of the whole device is that it adds _EXT at the end of my wifi network name. The range is much better than my router and has been effective in covering my house.
Amazon Customer –
Good for if you plan on hooking up a printer across your yard in your shed for some reason but probably nothing else. I set this up beside my router and it will not pass 20MB/s. On the website control panel it states it has a signal of 144MB/s (keep in mind it is plugged in within a foot of the high-speed router) and will go up to 145MB/s but regularly sits around 10MB/s download. Testing my main network in the exact same position shows me at 250+MB/s. Pretty huge difference.
Trip Williams –
We use these to provide SOLID coverage over the ENTIRETY of our Mountain Top Ranch (about 10 Acres on Top of the “Plateau” where our Home, Recreational Areas, and Upper Pastures are located. We also use them “Daisy-Chained Together” to cover our DEEP Valleys surrounding our Mountain.
Each Extender is named “(Our SSID Name)_(Area Of Coverage)”.. Example: “Our-Router_West” is the extender that covers the Western Top Part Of Our Ranch. When we “Link” or “Daisy Chain” several of these together to provide WiFi coverage down in the Valleys surrounding our Mountain, We use a format like “Our-Router_West1” (“The FIRST ‘Daisy Chained’ Western Netgear Extender, Connected to the MAIN Netgear Extender that covers the Western Part of the TOP of our Ranch, Which is Connected Directly to our Home’s Router”), “Our-Router_West2” (“The SECOND Netgear Western Extender, which is Daisy-Chain-Connected to the FIRST Western Extender, Which is connected to the Main Western Netgear Extender, Which is connected to our Home’s Router” – That’s a total of THREE Netgear Extenders, Covering the Western Areas Of Our Property, Up top, and down in the Western Valley) etc. etc…
You start losing ‘Throughput Speed’ FAST when Daisy Chaining these units together, but at least you still have “More than Decent” WiFi Coverage, even (ESPECIALLY) in areas where Cell Coverage can be spotty (Like down in our Steep Valley to our North, Where our Natural Springs run, which is a pretty sheer 600 Foot Drop in Elevation, with only a few hundred feet of Width before Climbing UPWARD again to more of our property.. Cell Coverage down there is ‘WISHFUL THINKING’ at best, even with a Cell Tower Company Renting some space we don’t use to place a Mini-Cell-Tower on our Property, so the Cell Companies can cut STRAIGHT ACROSS this HUGE Bowl of Mountains in the Area we live in, to provide Coverage to SEVERAL State Parks, WITHOUT having to run MULTIPLE towers on the Mountains that Surround us in the distance, 360 degrees.. Imagine a “Pound Cake Bowl”… The Edges of the Bowl would be the Mountains surrounding us in the distance, and the Plateau Sticking up in the center of the Bowl, is where WE live). Our iPhones will use “WiFi” to place calls, when they can’t get Cell Coverage, so it works out GREAT for us!
Recently, One of our Family Members built a home on land I gave them up here, about 900 “Air Feet” away from our house (So they don’t have to see/hear us, and we don’t have to see/hear them).. When I bought this mountain, NO Utility Company would TOUCH IT as far as “Providing Lines this far from Their Main Lines”, So I had to buy all of the Power/Cable/Water/etc lines myself, and hire Contractors to run them all up here (Buried).. I sized ALL of the Utilities to be able to support 10 homes eventually, as our Children can afford to build up here once they are at a place in life where they can work from home if they wish, Or build a “Vacation Home” up here until they CAN live up here full time… I bought HUGE spools of BIG Fiber-Optic Cable Line from ‘Corning’, and had contractors run it a LONG way, to the Local Cable Company’s Main Lines, that Carry Cable TV/Internet between Counties (Same for Power Lines, etc). So we have a LOT more High Speed Bandwidth than I need, Even working from home…
Until our Family Member who just built a home here can afford to connect to our Main Fiber Line to get Cable Internet of their own, I bought Two more of these Netgear units, and Daisy-Chained them together toward their new house, which is East of ours. I Fully expected to need THREE Extenders to run 900 “Air-Feet”, But TWO of them (One set in about the middle of one of our Upper Pastures, and the Second Unit Plugged into their Enclosed Screen-Room on their Back Porch) provides them with Decently fast WiFi Internet!!! We DO live WAY OUT in the middle of nowhere, without “Other signals everywhere to shorten the range of the signals WE produce” (for many different things), so YMMV if you live in a Suburb or something, but they work FLAWLESSLY up here for us.
ALL of the FIRST “Main” Netgear Extenders are placed outside our home, in a Waterproof (But “Signal Transparent”) Enclosure. Those First Extenders are simply used to grab the WiFi Signal from our Main Router inside our house (Going through “THICK Stone Walls” is TOUGH for even THE BEST WiFi Router!) and then “Extend The WiFi Signal Out Across our Property”… We have Four of these, Set North/South/East/West around the outside of our home, each about 50 Feet away from our Home.
I’ve found it’s easiest just to set up each unit by going to Netgear’s site when you find the extender on your device, creating a login, and then you can change ALL of your Units from a Netgear Book-Mark TO EACH UNIT (You REALLY need to have a separate Netgear Bookmark for EACH extender!). From those bookmarks, You can rename each unit, set it’s signal strength, see what’s connected to it, AND how good the Signal Strength is, TO AND FROM, each unit, etc.
I also found that if you just connect your iPhone (or whatever you may be carrying around) to EACH unit ONCE, let your device store that information, Then choose the option on your device to “Connect Automatically To Known Networks (with better signal strength)”, Then we can walk, ride the Horses or ATVs, pretty much anywhere, and our iPhones switch from Extender Unit to Extender Unit without even hesitating! Our Devices connect to the Extenders with better Signal Strength as we travel around outside Seamlessly. We never even know when the device has swapped connections from one extender to another.
Normally this is where I’d say, “For the Price These Can’t Be Beat’… But I’ve Paid MUCH MORE for WiFi Extenders that didn’t perform HALF as well as these do! “And For The Price”, you can scatter them everywhere over large areas.
“Tech Tip”: Lightly MIST the INSIDE of a clear “Cake Platter” CD/DVD Bulk Storage Dome with WHITE paint (To reflect the Sun’s Heat AWAY from the Cake-Platter, and keep UV OFF the Extenders), Run an Outdoor-Rated Extension Cord through a hole in the bottom of the Cake Patter Storage Case (created when you cut the Center Spindle out of the base), Hot-Glue the Extension Cord in Place close to the bottom of the case, AND to close up the Gaps in the Bottom Hole to keep the bugs out, And you have a HIGHLY decent “Outdoor, Weather Resistant, Signal Transparent, WiFi Signal Extender Dome”
I simply set up each new unit here in the house, log in to the Netgear Website, Choose which OTHER unit I want the NEW unit to connect to (either our Main Router, OR one of the Extenders out further from the house), and let the NetGear Site set it up for me (Bookmark the Netgear Site Associated with EACH INDIVIDUAL UNIT!).. Then I unplug the unit, take to where I need it, Plug it back in to Power, and it’s good to go! Once we allow ALL of our Devices (iPhones, Palm-Tops, etc) to connect to each extender and save it as a “known Network”, I turn OFF the “Broadcast SSID” Option, so no one else sees the (Now HUGE) WiFi Network “Publicly” (without Special Software, or a Signal Sniffer, etc).. But even if someone DID happen to somehow get onto our Property, past all of our Security Fences, and Security Systems, and find the WiFi Signal, well, that’s what STRONG PASSWORDS, Encryption, And FIREWALLS are for! It can be a pain, but our Main Router is Set-Up to ONLY allow use by “Devices We Specifically Allow”. “Guests” are allowed to connect to a “GUEST ACCOUNT”, which puts them on a Secondary Network, so if their devices are Compromised, or have a Virus/Worm/etc, it can’t propagate through to other devices on our Main Network. And if their devices contain a Keystroke logger, then whoever is reading the Logger’s Output only has a Guest Password, WHICH CHANGES EVERY 10 DAYS, and Each Guest has a PERSONAL password that identifies THEM.. We do it that way so that if a Month from now, someone we don’t know starts trying to hack into our network using an old Guest Password [Like: “glenn-1s-C00l-0CT”] that was used by a friend that visited recently, we know to contact THAT friend and tell them they’ve been compromised (“glenn-1s-C00l-0CT”, LOOKS like, “Glenn-Is-Cool-Oct”, But what it ACTUALLY tells US is “It was “Glenn”, “First Part” [1s] “Of October”)… But even then Our Router wouldn’t even respond to a MAC Address that’s not CURRENTLY on the “Guest List” marked as “Allowed”, so even someone Spoofing his MAC Address wouldn’t work, since his Guest Access was COMPLETELY deleted the day he left.
Probably 10 Times More than you Wanted to know, But nowadays Security Risks are VERY REAL, VERY possible, and that’s even MORE of a Concern When you have WiFi COMPLETELY Covering Tens Of Acres. These are VERY useful Items!
Ben –
I have this plugged in about 200ft from the router. It extends the signal easily another 150ft. This is in an office with concrete block walls.
Ronald in the South –
After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.After logging into NetGears Setup Page and making a password and 2 security questions I found it fairly simple and quick to get the AC1200 WiFi Range Extender to lock into my router. I live in a mobile home and the WiFi connection in the living room where the router is located is fine but when you take your laptop or Ipad down to the other end of the trailer, in the bedrooms you lose quite a bit. On a lot of sites you would get a lot of buffering. Once I put AC1200 in the back bedroom it was like having the router in the room. Plus there are no cord connections, just plug it in the wall socket. If I want to use an Ethernet Cable with my laptop in the bedroom there is an Ethernet Port on the side of the AC1200 Extender to plug into. Some Extenders I reviewed before buying this one don’t have that feature. You can’t go wrong with this model. Works great. And if your a member of Amazon Prime you’ll get it in 2 days. I did.
Mary S. –
This little box was such a necessity in our house! It was super easy to set up and use. Plug it into an outlet about half way between your wifi and where it will extend to. Log onto the extender with a wireless device and it takes you to a sign up page, to edit passwords and such. Initially you have to enter your existing password to your wifi and set up some secret questions, then you are connected! Each device connecting to it will have to enter the new password. You can change the name and password of your new connection through the extender if you want or keep it the same password as your wifi. Two minutes to set up online and BINGO that’s it! Super fast with our wifi speed of 60mbps. We are loving it and well worth the money!
Big Will –
This was my 2nd Wi-Fi extender that I bought. 1st from Netgear.
It worked GREAT for the first 5 months.
I have mine plugged in the garage. The range is great.
The past few weeks.. It just started to cut out. Every 20 mins it will just go dead. I have to unplug and plug it back in.
This happened to the 1st one I bought from another company. The little boxes run pretty HOT. 🔥 A little too hot for my liking.
I need to buy a new one. But I am going to unplug it at night when I’m not using it. Maybe extend the lifetime.
These things .. No matter what company seem to last a year.. And then start messing up