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Become a fan of PCMag. Using a Windows 7 client laptop, my Couple of Quirks I did notice a couple of hiccups using Netgear's extender. Quirky behavior in interface. The most important part of setup is, in fact, putting the extender in the right place; it's best situated if it is at an equal distance from your router and the area from where your wireless endpoint is receiving a weak signal or no signal. At feet, I was able to maintain the connection to the network. Here are some throughput results:

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This low signal would definitely prove insufficient for any heavy-duty multimedia streaming.

Netgear Universal WiFi Range Extender (WN2000RPT)

There are four LAN ports on the extender, so if the midway point is in a convenient area, you can connect additional devices such as gaming consoles, printers, or even desktop PCs to the network via the extender.

Once it does, the next step is to go through the setup wizard. Factory reset took time to take effect. In my testing, the optimal range was 50 to feet—the sweet spot might be different in your network depending your equipment, your layout, interference, and so on.

I opened up a browser from a laptop that was connected to my Wi-Fi network. This setup wizard will make it possible that you manage the settings for your devices without any kind of performance issues.

At 15 feet, I received a sehup throughput of 25 Mbps; at 30 feet that number decreased to 14 Mbps, and dwindled to 10 Mbps at 45 feet away. After placing your Netgear wnrpt wifi extender device and router device to same location you will need to configure your device for home network.

You can either use WPS configurations for your setting up your device or you can also choose the smart setup wizard for your device. Throughput got a slight boost—to 12 Mbps—at 45 feet, and an even bigger surge to 9. The directions that ship with the device state users can go back into the management interface after the extender is configured by typing in the interface's URL.

As usual, at the top of the second flight of stairs, my signal dropped from five bars "excellent" signal strength in Windows to two bars just "fair" signal strength.

Still, a feet ideal range is enough to extend a signal throughout the average-to-larger sized home or office, provided there isn't much interference between the router and the extender. It wasn't until several hours later that I finally saw the default SSID wizwrd extender broadcasts before it is configured.

Netgear's extender acts more as a repeater. You wouldn't want to put it anywhere, where you already have a decent sn2000rpt four or five bars in your Windows available networks list, for examplebecause in that case the extender will actually slow down your traffic, according to both Netgear and my testing.

There's no CD or any software to install. In this article we are going to explain the steps for accessing the login page for your Netgear wnrpt WiFi extender device. The software gives you the option to carry over security from the wireless router to the extender, which is what I did.

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Couple of Quirks I did notice a couple of hiccups using Netgear's extender. If the endpoint you want to reach is more than feet from the router, you'd probably be better off bringing connectivity via a power line adapter or though access points. After placing the extender on the network, I retested throughput using the same equipment and testing at the same distances.

Additional Ethernet ports for connecting devices. In any case you are not getting login or redirect to your wifi extender device then you will need to fill http: For a wide open space, the extender does not seem to do much good until you are about feet away from the router.

Don't panic, though—now you can see the Extender in your list of available wireless networks. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Once the settings are applied, you lose your connection to the Extender's interface.

Netgear Universal WiFi Range Extender (WNRPT) First Looks - Review - PCMag UK

That's a problem wn200r0pt users who may switch out routers— as resetting the extender is a time waster, as are incorrect instructions. Extends range as advertised. On January 8,Posted by adminIn mywifiext.