Amazon.com: Customer reviews: NETGEAR Wifi Mesh Range Extender EX7000 - Coverage Up to 1800 Sq.ft. and 30 devices with AC1900 Dual Band Wireless Signal Booster & Repeater (Up to 1900Mbps Speed), Plus Mesh Smart Roaming

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Wireless and fast lane mode

August 7, 2018

I needed more wifi range for my house since I added ring cameras all around had problems with connectivity. At first I was thinking of wiring my house with Ethernet cables all about but looked like to much work. I saw this product on youtube and read the reviews on amazon and purchased this extender. All I can say is wow this thing is unbelievable with range. Easy to use I adjust the extenders parameters to full range and used fast lane mode from 5g to 2.4g and wow the speeds are amazing just as good as my Verizon quantum cable modem and wireless now my home has coverage everywhere and outside. No cables to worry about and not drilling holes anywhere. My ring cameras are all functioning perfectly. So far very happy with the Product

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DO NOT update to the latest firmware 1.0.1.78

October 4, 2018

DO NOT update to the latest firmware 1.0.1.78; it disables the extender! I was able to replicate this problem with multiple units. I have brought this up with Netgear Support. Unfortunately, Netgear is keeping this firmware up on their website, and encouraging users to update to this version. It shows lack of quality assurance and total disregard for their customers.

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Joe Jr

Wireless and fast lane mode

August 7, 2018

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T. Long

Fantastic wi-fi extender!

June 28, 2017

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This extender worked even better than I expected. In fact, the experts at Best Buy claimed what I wanted to do was impossible with out using an ethernet cable. I decided to try it anyway. My predicament: I live waaaaaaaay out in the country and internet is only available via satellite and is pretty costly. I needed to extend my wi-fi to the guest house which is roughly 150 feet away. Having read some of the reviews, I thought this might just do the trick. And, man, did it ever! First, I tried putting the extender in the pool house, which is about 1/3 of the distance closer to the guest house, but it didn't work. I was pretty bummed, but decided to see what would happen if I just set it up in the window of the guest house itself. BINGO! It picked up and amplified the signal beautifully. So, my advice is, if it's not working as you expected, try moving it to a few different locations. One of them is bound to work.

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Mihalis in Kansas

A wonderful creation that does what it does very, very well.

August 8, 2016

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This NetGear Nighthawk is a God send! I use this in combination with my NetGear Nighthawk 6 wireless router and dead spots are a thing of the past! There is no more Smart TV wireless pixelation of pictures in my far reaching office space no speeds have gone from 10 Mbps to 35-45 Mbps. Setup was a cinch...just read the directions and you'll be fine. It's sleek, thin design looks great on my desktop, and it is unobtrusive in its footprint. The feedback lights for status could be brighter, but that's the only negative that I can honestly think of...of course, dim lights are a plus if the Nighthawk is in your bedroom for sleeping purposes.I really like the fact that the NETGEAR Nighthawk AC1900 Desktop WiFi Range Extender blends right in on your desktop and what it does, it does very, very well.

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Michael-CTOBioTech

AC1900 Nighthawk: SOHO application for Data Analytics, standard home office construction: strong signal

September 10, 2016

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The Nighthawk AC1900 WiFi is being used as an access point cloned to the rest of our LAN and WiFi. We have Verizon Quantum FiOS at 150 MBps/up&down. The Nighthawk location is up in a far corner of the office, 3rd story, corner, where we have another office. Ethernet CAT7 cabled, grounded, all metal connections. WiFi: 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz are both north of 140 MBps in the immediate office, @ -35 to -40 dBm, adjacent rooms remain in the -40s dBm range, 80 feet with hallways and standard home office walls between Stays in the high -40s dBm range.

For clear shots, this is really good. For the walls/floors and metal vents & wiring installed inside the normal home office walls, this is also a very strong set-up.

I have an Amped Wireless also dual band and it's signal is slightly weaker than this one.

Since we are a total virtual company, we have to test and evaluate which equipment serves our purposes best for our healthcare-related research and data analytics. We use and are partnered with well recognized brands that are market leaders in data analytics. I highly recommend the Nighthawk AC1900 WiFi Range Extender for personal and Small Office Use for similar purposes. Also, we only use laptop platforms, though all are capable at "gamer-spec" processing levels.

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August 16, 2018

Wow! I was skeptical of this product based on some of the reviews and how these extenders supposedly work. I am glad I was disappointed with my skepticism. This thing rocks. I have an older Netgear router that has to remain placed on one end of my ranch style home so the devices I have at the other end of the house and in the finished areas of my basement got no or lousy signal. I placed this device in my kitchen (a little over mid-way in the house) and now EVERY device in the house is getting bathed in a strong signal. Both the 2.5G and 5G bands connected with no issue and work wonderfully. Unboxing the thing took longer than the setup. Can't get any easier than that and I am totally impressed so far. Way to go Netgear!

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R. Bass

I am ecstatic about this device.

January 11, 2017

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I am ecstatic about this device. We've only had it for two weeks so I can't speak to durability, but it does a great job on getting the signal to the far reaches of the house. We have a 4500 sq ft three story house with lath and chickenwire and plaster walls. The router Comcast supplied was almost useless. Two years ago we bought a Luxul XWR1750 router, which does a good job with the basement and first floor, but not the upstairs. We have 150 Mbs coming into the house; a Luxul wifi extender only gave us 2 Mbs in the second floor. The Netgear extender gives up 50-60 Mbs upstairs, which is more than adequate for our needs. It was a cinch to set up.

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David Kennison

Printed directions need some improvement here and it's probably my bad anyway, but when I finally unplugged all network ...

July 17, 2017

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I needed a WiFi extender because our house is all brick masonry with a slate roof. Signals from my router's WiFi don't penetrate the outside walls or even the thick inside plaster walls. We're living in a WiFi (and cellular) dead zone.
I chose the Nighthawk EX7000 based on on-line reviews and got it from Amazon.
It was simple to install and connect, almost plug and play. It was a little tougher to do the extender's configuration setup since I wasn't aware that I had to plug the extender directly into the computer - not through the router, not through a downstream network switch. Printed directions need some improvement here and it's probably my bad anyway, but when I finally unplugged all network connections from the computer and plugged in only the EX7000, everything was perfect and simple.
So how does it work? Where I used to have WiFi signals at 1 bar on 2.4 and 5 GHz, I now have 5 bars. When I used to go outside the house and have 0 bars, I now have 5 bars. 50-100 ft away outside - 4 bars. In other words, this thing is great!! I'm really pleased I got it.

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Hi-Fi Luggage

Finally, one that works! Don't waste time with the cheaper units.

April 22, 2018

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Thanks to the Nighthawk AC1900, I am writing this review from the media room that used to be a "dead zone". I tried the NETGEAR N300 and A1200, as well as the Victony 1200 (which is a terrible product with a bunch of fake 5 star reviews, avoid!) and all of those units didn't do much for my application...the internet was barely usable. I spent 2 weeks with the other 3 extenders trying to come up with a configuration that would work, moving them to every possible location and no luck. **I would highly suggest contacting your internet/cable provider and ask them if they will provide a free extender before purchasing your own.

I've had this unit (AC1900) for 72 hours and it works flawlessly with all of these devices connected: 2 iPhones, a tablet, a laptop 75 feet away, 2 wifi cameras, and a ROKU smart TV. I'm getting very fast speeds (90mbps) in the media room which is about 75 feet away, and 5 THICK walls from the original router which is on top of a desk, not an ideal location but that's where our internet service provider placed it. I am really pleased with the results and believe you will be too. This unit is the size of a normal router, although slightly more slim. Mount your router high if possible, and mount the extender high as well. WiFi signals trickle down.

The only "con" is that on my 8 year old ACER laptop about 75 feet away, the WiFi signal says on the laptop it's not full strength, but when running an internet speed test it reports high speeds. Plus, surfing the web and watching 4k YouTube videos is seamless, super fast. Not sure what that's about AND other reviewers have reported even though the wifi signal reports to be low, it's actually not. Weird. Best of luck extending your WiFi!

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Outstanding WiFi Extender

March 5, 2018

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We have a three story house with the modem and router on the top floor. The Router is a 6th Generation Apple Extreme with an Apple Express on each of the other two floors. The internet speed here-to-fore was all over the place on the middle floor and basement with speeds from the teens to the 30's and 40's typical. Our provider is charging us for 100Mbs. I put the NETGEAR Nighthawk AC1900 on the middle floor and the whole house is smokin'. Our house is standard wood framing/floors and drywall and I would recommend this extender with a big AAA+++! We are an Apple household but since they have gotten out of the router business, this extender is a great buy and does a heck of a job.

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dinub1

Quality, fast wi-fi, price, easy to install, reasonable price

August 14, 2019

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I just got this for a few days and I am nothing, but thrilled about it.
1st of all, the setup was extremely easy. I did not go and hook it directly to my wifi router with a LAN cable. The router is also a wi-fi AC3000 Netgear. But connected it to my PC with a LAN cable and did the setup wirelessly. It recognized right away my SSIDs one 2.4 GHz, and the other 5 GHz. I set it up, added the passwords and that was it. The router sits on the opposite corner of this apartment, in a dense residence building, where everybody seems to have a wifi. Reception is flawless, steady, and I am gettin up to 118 MB/sec download speed from my 100 MB/sec rated Spectrum ISP.
Nothing but thrilled. Unit works very steadily, no signal disruptions of any kind, and just slightly warm to the touch on top. This is quite a massive unit, that does an admirable job as a repeater. Very happy with it.