TP-Link AC1200 WiFi Extender, 2023 Engadget Best Budget Pick, 1.2Gbps Signal Booster for Home, Dual Band 5GHz/2.4GHz, Covers Up to 1500 Sq.ft and 30 Devices,Support Onemesh, One Ethernet Port (RE315)

Cheap and useful!
The TP-Link AC1200 Wi-Fi Range Extender RE315 is a solid, budget-friendly fix that actually works. Setup is a breeze and only takes about five minutes using the Tether app. What I love most is the OneMesh support, which creates a single, seamless network so your phone doesn’t drop the signal while you’re walking around the house. It even has a smart signal light on the front that turns white when you’ve found the perfect spot and red if it’s too far from the router, taking all the guesswork out of placement. While it’s not the absolute fastest tech on the market, it provides plenty of speed for 4K streaming and video calls, and there’s even an Ethernet port if you want to hardwire a device for extra stability. It’s a great middle ground solution if you want to kill dead spots without spending hundreds on a full system.

Works as signal booster, simple setup
Using device as a signal booster. Works well, now have 5 bars instead of 1. Does not improve isp connection, just connection to the wifi router in the house. Easy setup with phone app.

Perfect and simple setup with TP-Link Router
I needed an extender that was able to reach another suite in the strip mall that I rent for my business. The 2nd suite I just acquired is on the other end of an L shaped building so I now have both ends of the “L”. My signal is at a minimum of 4 out of 5 strength in every spot of both buildings where as before I could not get a signal at all in the 2nd suite.I tried two other extenders that ended up being exactly the same but with different Chinese alphabet soup names. Both of them ended up knocking out the wifi on my router completely to the point where I had to reset the router to get any wifi available at all. My router is a TP-Link so ended up purchasing this one and sure enough it worked like a charm within a minute or two of simple setup.

An Extender that actually works with minimal setup!
The tp link ac1200 mesh wifi signal extender works like a dream. My purpose was to get better download speeds as my router was upstairs and I wanted to play competitive online games downstairs in the living room on my ps5 and series x Xbox. I saw downloads go from 35mbps to 93 mbps and no lag. Setup is extremely easy. I downloaded the official app and followed the in app directions. The bonus part is the device comes with one ethernet port. With this port I hardwired my ps5 in and now get speeds of 135mbps.

Setting up the extender is a breeze, and the reception has improved notably. I really like the one-mesh technology, eliminating the need to change networks at home.

After installing a brand new TP-Link AXE75 (AX5400) WiFi 6E wireless router, I will still getting weak spots in the some rooms. I was hoping this would fix the issues with my Linksys Atlas mesh wireless network, which had good range but devices kept binding to a weaker node and wasn’t switching nodes seamlessly. After doing some research, I bought this TP-Link RE315 Range Extender because it could work with my router using TP-Link’s OneMesh/EasyMesh system. I was a bit skeptical given my bad experience with the Linksys mesh system. Setup was incredibly simple, I plugged the RE315 into a power outlet that was more central in my home, on a different floor from router. Pressed the WPS buttons on both the router and range extender and after a couple of minutes, they paired and the RE315 extended my 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks. Using my router’s web interface, I could see the RE315 as a “Mesh device”.To test, I used my Pixel 6 and the WiFi Analyzer app on 5GHz network. With this phone on my previous Linksys Atlas mesh, it would bind to a node but wouldn’t switch to the stronger node, even if I was 1 ft away from it. I had to turn off WiFi and turn it back on before it bound to nearest node. With my TP-Link EasyMesh setup, I could see my Pixel 6 was connected to the AXE75 router. As a moved downstairs and was a few feet away from RE315, I saw the connection switch to the range extender. It was completely seamless and I didn’t lose the WiFi network, it just switched. With WiFi Analyzer, I could tell which network device I was connected to based on Mac address and IP. Onto an Internet speed test. Connected upstairs to AXE75, I was getting 600 Mbps down, 300 Mbps up on and 1Gbps Internet. Connected to the RE315, I was only getting 90 Mbps down, 60 Mbps up, which seems slow but I was expecting that with range extender as half the bandwidth is connecting to the main router, while other half is for clients. This is also a WiFi 5 AC1200 ranger extender, compared to my WiFi 6E AX router. So I was pleased with this performance since the area I was getting the dead spots in, I was now seeing full strength with good speeds, which is much better than dropped connections I was getting not using the range extender, or with my previous Linksys Atlas mesh.

Value for money, easy setup and installation