TP-Link TL-WA860RE WiFi Extender Booster with Passthrough Socket, Ethernet Port N300Mbps, Internet Booster, WiFi Repeater,WiFi Extender,App Control, WiFi Booster Range Extender, Plug and Play,UK Plug

This unassuming little device has given our wi-fi a new lease of life, and enabled me to work out in the garden throughout the summer. So easy to set up, such a low footprint, and in my tests the speed of the broadband connection is as good through the extender as it is through the main wi-fi, even when I'm sat next to the wi-fi and the extender is 2 rooms away. Plus you don't even lose the plug socket you plug it into, or the one next to it, and it's one of the cheapest devices I found when searching for something to do this job. Just a couple of words of caution. If you (or someone else in your house!) do plug something into the plug socket it exposes, be mindful that when you unplug that device you can sometimes pull the wifi extender out of the socket, and then you lose your improved wifi range (and it might take a while to realise why). Also, once you've set it all up, you do need to set your devices to connect to the new access point (with the suffix _EXT), this isn't mentioned in the instructions as far as I remember, and it caught me out because I assumed that wasn't necessary. Those caveats aside, this has seen me videoconferencing in the garden and using my phone in rooms that previously had no wifi all through the summer - for this price, I can't fault it!

One star for ease of set-up: Wireless setup failed. Had to configure via ethernet cable, which was fine. But then, when I tried to use the device (to connect my Youview Box via ethernet cable) it wasn't working. Spent over an hour on TP-Link's chat support, who asked all sorts of technical questions that I didn't really have answers to. But the support was friendly and helpful, even if the procedure they took me through was a bit of a headache.The support person finally sent a link to upgrade the firmware, which I did, with some effort, not being a tech-minded person at all. Then I had to re-configure the product again, running through the basic setup procedure once more. Also, the product won't work when plugged in to an extension cord - it has to be in a wall socket. That wasn't really clear to me when I bought the product.Now, with upgraded firmware, and plugged into a wall socket, the product works very well. Great wifi signal in my sitting room, and the Youview works brilliantly. But the trouble I had setting it up felt like messing around with a PC back in 1998. These days you expect a different level of user friendliness.

I bought two of these. Just remember that once you have set up the first one, unplug it before you try to set up others. otherwise you will have problems. Setup itself was reasonably painless, once I had worked that out. I have far better WIFI coverage now.

Could not connect to my router using button on the device, but after downloading the app everything went smooth and well, can see the difference, whole house is covered. Speed is fantastic, no problem to set up a password, security settings easy to manage

This is only a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi unit and does not provide better than 15Mb/s pass-through speeds when extending over Wi-Fi. This might be a bottleneck if you are running many devices through this unit. If you have newer devices, you would be better off purchasing a 5GHz compatible unit. I also had to manually configure the unit by the hardwired connection and despite typing in the correct IP address many times, it too some time for the unit's web interface to respond. It does the job, but you would be better off buying unit that is more forward compatible.

Worked ok for 12 months then stopped. Tried resetting etc but still not working. Will try other makes in future.

I found this very easy to set up and it has been 100% reliable. It's not transmitting across a huge distance in my house but the signal is full bars. The ethernet is the thing I really needed as I can explain.The range extender played a useful part in helping me set up a reasonably secure home automation network. As I work in cyber security I have a reasonable understanding of the risks of starting to connect devices to your home network. It's not a very secure thing to do, as devices such as cheap WiFi light bulbs or web cams can be exploited remotely, leading to the attacker getting access to your laptops, tablets and other stuff on the network. So a very basic thing you can do is "isolate" your home automation / internet of things devices from your computer / laptop / home PC network. This is where the TP-Link comes in. Many home routers like the excellent ASUS DSL-N66U (http://amzn.to/2o6KasH) have a "guest" WiFi network. This network has internet access but NOT access to devices on your "main" WiFi network. So you put all your home automation stuff on the guest network. However, the problem I ran into was with Hive hub which ONLY connects via ethernet. The easy solution is to set up the TP-Link on the guest network and plug Hive hub into the ethernet port.

I bought two of these earlier in the year so waited to write a review. Before I bought them wifi signal was weak in my kitchen and upstairs, the garden was non existent. My property is build with engineering bricks which are much stronger than normal brick. Using WPS they were extremely easy to pair, I have put one upstairs and one in the kitchen, I can connect now from anywhere including my garden, I can stream and watch anything in the garden now. Only problem I am having is with my Ring doorbell where the signal is still weak, I moved the one from the kitchen into the hall and voilà strong connection to my Ring so I guess I need another one. All in all I think a very good product and would recommend. To follow on from my Ring problem I bought another extender, this time it wouldn’t connect using WPS so I had to use the app which worked fine. It has reduced the RSSI on my Ring from 75 to 46 so all is good.