Linksys RE9000: AC3000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi Extender, Wireless Range Booster for Home, 4 Gigabit Ethernet Ports, Works with Any Wi-Fi Router (Black)

We purchased the Linksys AC3000 in an attempt to achieve reliable, stable wi-fi from the router located in the downstairs northernmost corner of our two-story 3,400 sf L-shaped home (yes, I know, worst location ever) to an upstairs family room television located in the furthest opposite corner from the router. The AC3000 replaced an older Linksys router previously set up as an access point and located in the upstairs front middle of the house at the top of an open staircase. Over the years we tried various devices to get a decent signal to that family room. So, we were somewhat skeptical the AC3000 would alleviate the constant buffering when streaming to the upstairs television, or the unreliable and weak signal other devices suffered in that room due to distance. Happily for us, it works perfectly. The most surprising thing is that downstairs bedrooms and bathrooms located in the back "L" also now receive strong, reliable wi-fi signal from the AC3000. Surprising because every downstairs wall, exterior and interior, is concrete block with 1950’s hand applied plaster which previously rendered the wi-fi signal non-existent in all but one bedroom, and even that was weak and unreliable. The one small frustration in setting up the AC3000 occurred when attempting to use the WPS button for easy setup. As it turned out, our Apple 3TB Time Capsule router doesn't allow for WPS setup. Once we reset the AC3000 (via the reset button) and then used the web page option, it was a quick and easy setup. Overall, we’re thrilled that we now have wi-fi throughout the entire house and finally feel confident we can cut the cable cord.

Have an odd shaped 3,500 SF ranch finished up and mostly finished down. Have a Linksys EA9500 main router. There are too many walls/obstructions between the centrally mounted router and family room and bedroom ends of the house. Bought a Linksys RE9000/AC3000 and set it up as an access point with an ethernet cable for one end of the house. Set it up with a non-networked computer and gave it the same name as the main router network to avoid having multiple networks. When setup was finished, hooked the RE9000 to the main network and recycled the main network and the unit came to life. Setup and instructions are a tad wonky in my opinion, but forgiving and not too bad. I have one network name and one can walk from one end of the house to the other without any loss of connection or signal. On a hard wire, I get 800 down and 40 up. In the wi-fi in the family room with the RE, I now get 450-600 down and 40 up, which seems pretty acceptable. I was so pleased with the results I bought a 2nd unit from Amazon for the other end of the house and now get It gets about 400-550 down pretty much everywhere in the bedroom area, but signal is going through a few more walls. Setting these up as access points probably gives much better coverage than setting them up as repeaters. From what I have read, repeater style extenders need to be kept close enough to the router's signal envelope edge to get a good connection and then part of the extender's wi-fi signal is consumed by back-hauling data between thee extender and the router. The access point approach avoids this issue. Anyway, the LInksys RE9000's are decent units and they seem to be trouble free. I'm a Happy Camper.

My main complaint is that the extender disconnects and restarts/reboots intermittently. This is quite irritating and can happen in the middle of a program you are watching or in the middle of a critical update - hence unreliable! Linksys needs to resolve this ASAP before folks loose faith in the product. I had seen similar reviews before I purchased, but assumed that they would have fixed it. Hope its not a hardware issues and I am stuck. My router is EA8500 (not that old) and it should work smoothly.

If you don't use wps, the setup program will start by logging in to the extender and entering the setup url on a browser. After that the setup url is non-functional without a factory reset. There is no admin program. It logs into the primary router with an ipv6 address for itself and all the clients. It is supposed to update it's firmware automatically, no way to check. It works well now, and as long as it works, I really like this device. A no hassle extender with excellent connection speeds.

Where to start. I bought this to replace my aging ASUS router which I was/am using as a repeater for my ATT DSL connection. After reading the reviews I thought this would be a good replacement. 4 antennas, 10k sq.ft. coverage. 5ghz backhaul. Great stuff right? After having this for about a week now, I can honestly say that I have never seen a more worthless piece of network hardware in my 30 years as a network admin. Initially I took all the defaults that it came with setup-wise and it came online and worked just fine with all my 6 devices that I switched over. About an hour later some of the devices began to drop off. That was just the beginning. It has gone downhill from there. Over the last few days I have, disabled the band switching (which never worked properly), turned off the 5ghz band and am only using the 2.4. I placed it in the same location as my old ASUS router which "spot finder" says is just right. I have messed with adjusting the antennas, Moved the RE9000 to different locations in my 1260 sq ft home, tried switching channels, assigning it a hard IP address, etc. Still the same. That's the short list. Right now, I have to leave my old ASUS router powered on so that when the devices drop off the RE9000 they will default over to the ASUS. You got my money this time LinkSys. Never again.

Easy to setup but devices wouldn't connect to internet. Does NOT offer seamless roaming in house via the same SSID unless you are using a Linksys router. With non-Linksys routers such as the ARRIS cable modem/router I have you have an SSID with a _EXT to connect to which wouldn't have been that bad but several of my devices would connect to the extender but not to internet. After 2 hours of working on this issue I gave up and returned the unit.

Este repetidor lo compre para expandir la red en una construccion de 4 niveles pero con muchos obstaculos y paredes muy gruesas, a pesar de eso la señal pasa bien, tal vez no excelente pero mantiene su velocidad y ademas tiene la funcion de determinar que frecuencia es la mas adecuada para tu smarthphone, tablet, pc, etc

Buen rango de cobertura y gran velocidad inalámbrica. Ampliamente recomendado.

Mejora importantemente la señal y a buena distancia

Lo utilicé como extender cableado, utiliza el mismo nombre de la red original y en automático los dispositivos móviles que se conectan escogen el 2.4 o 5 GHz. Excelente.

Muy fácil de instalar ya sea como router o cómo access point