NETGEAR WiFi Booster Range Extender | WiFi Extender Booster

I had problems with my new internet supplier, they would not give me a booster as they said my internet was good even though it didn’t work in parts of my house including my games room. I purchased this range extender after research and it worked perfectly. It boosted my internet in the attic (router on the bottom floor) by over 80mbps and now I can use multiple devices without a problem. Looks good for a games room too very futuristic. My router is WiFi 5, so the nighthawk is future proof for me when ever I end up with WiFi 6.

I needed to get an IT expert to help set up. However now its set up it has revoloutionised my internet . Its really very very good .

Worked perfectly, I set this up in 5 mins with the Application on my Android phone. Very simple and the boosted WIFI Signal is excellent I was using several booster devices in our home but this made all of them redundant. The signal passes through 2 Partition walls up 1 flight of stairs and creates a signal in 4 rooms 2 up 2 down. I set this up with a Starlink WIFI router and with an ASUS 4G wifi Router no issues with either. Great piece of kit. Thanks

I’ve put the EX7700 in my lounge and can still watch Netflix around 100m away outside; even through thick old walls the antennae know no bounds. Very happy!

This is a great Wi-Fi extender. It was easy to set up near the router using the app on iPhone and then move it further away. The Tri band seems to work well with a dedicated channel back to the router. The other 2 channels 2.4ghz and 5ghz are not obvious if you opt for the ‘one’ setting which means the extender gives you the frequency best suited to where you are in the house. It seems to be pretty fast and up to 866 Mbps.

The app is good for set up but pretty minimal. I would have liked the ability to switch off bright indicator leds on app but you can do it on the web page for the nighthawk. It seems stable so far with just one reset (maybe due to ISP). Sometimes had to refresh Wi-Fi on iPhone by turning Wi-Fi off and on. But otherwise ok.
I didn’t place the Nighthawk too far away, just in the hall with router in front room, as quality dropped off the further I went away using the indicator lights on the device. But it pumps out the signal to cover 2000 square feet I think. Anyway I get full strength Wi-Fi through out the house.
All in all very pleased with the nighthawk, much better than previous ac1200 extender. It looks like a stealth jet and that’s how it works stealthily and fast in the background.

Ever since we had new flooring installed throughout our house with a foil underlay, Wi-Fi upstairs had become troublesome and at the extremes of the house, non-existent. I was hoping this would solve it – and it has.

However as others may have experienced, I could not set this up via the app – no matter how many times I tried entering my existing Wi-Fi password, the netgear app would reject it.

Thankfully the alternative method of pressing the WPS2 button on our router to have all its info passed to the extender worked fine.

The process takes a while – as the unit takes a good few minutes to boot up and connect, but now it’s all set up I have full strength Wi-Fi in all the places I previously had none.

So, I’ve had an issue with my existing router keeps dropping signal on my laptop, the router is upstairs, its a 1940’s brick built 3 bedroom house and although the router could get a signal to the downstairs this dropping/reconnecting fairly regularly. I had Teams video noting “unstable connection” in the dining room. Its an expensive router with a good feature set (Asus AC68U) and I was loath to spend hundreds on a mesh network which, if you read the reviews, can also be problematic.

So I gave the EX8000 a try and it works straight out the box, sort of. I tried the WPS setup on the extender/router, it seemingly connected to the router this actually didn’t work at all. I went in through the browser interface and ran Smart Set Up and it worked fine thereafter, so if you are setting this up first time take note, might be worth avoiding the WPS.

So, performance, i situated the extender at the furthest part of the house (from the router) in the dining room at the back wall, I was initially slightly concerned this would be too far signal wise but it picked up the router as a strong signal, I ran Google’s own speed test without the extender, 50/60 meg download with a the signal strength showing as poor/weak on a wifi analytic app in the dining room. With extender on, this doubled to 120 meg download speed, with the signal strength kicking up to strong, a huge difference.

I had the extender mimic my existing router settings so everything connects to it automatically, a very nice touch.

My laptop dropped the signal again a few times this morning, turns out it had picked up the router upstairs instead of the extender when it booted, so, i created a guest network, made it so that it access my local network and told my laptop to forget the router upstairs and connect to the guest network on the extender, so now the laptop only connects to the extender, my laptop really only lives in the living/dining room so this works for me, even so the signal I get from the extender reaches the whole house, albeit dropping to 50 meg in the upstairs bedrooms. This now puts a signal out to the bottom of the garden too, much further than before.

The extender has some basic features, USB connection for storage as a media server, guest network (as mentioned) and access schedule to shut down at certain times but really its about one thing, giving an enormous boost to my wireless signal to the whole downstairs of my house. Its a big old thing so might be best hidden away but in its size lies its big antennas giving a real performance. There are newer models out but I don’t have any wifi 6 devices so i don’t see the need for that expensive upgrade over the benefits of the EX8000. Highly recommended.

Summary: More powerful and useful than a Netgear EX7500, too diificult to implement, worked eventually as an Access Point.

I don’t understand the technical aspects of networks or wifi, I’m just a user. Eventually (6 hours) I succeeded in adding this to an existing home network, about the time I’d expected. I’d bought it because I wanted more reach into garden and the edges of the house and the other extender I wrestled with a year ago (Netgear EX7500) couldn’t always latch on to the router’s wifi despite my trying several different places in the house.

What is immensly frustrating with this implementation (and the other unit when I started using that a year ago) is the sheer slog of finding documents and procedures that are complete and relevant. The ‘quick user’ guide was not much use, presumably because I’m not a quick user (boom, boom). It took a number of online searches to find procedures and then longer still to find one that worked.

I wanted to install it to take a cable feed from extenders that feed through the power sockets from the router into my home office, then for it to do its wifi thing. As usual, even when I found the ‘right’ procedure it took about 6 or 8 goes to get the hardware to behave as it said it would. Having not much knowledge I could only go back to the start every time the system refused to connect, sometimes it did and sometimes it didn’t.

I don’t know whether I’ve done it as I should because I set the router and both extenders’ wifi as the same name and logon but my moving tablets and phones seem to use it well, if the speedtest results are anything to go by.

I found the Nighthawk app incomprehensible and it didn’t latch on to the extender; the Netgear Analystics app produces pretty graphs and so on but I can’t find how to use the information provided.

This passed my test of IT kit in that it started working before I threw it to the ground and jumped on it and for that I’m grateful but it doesn’t have to be so frustrating, surely?

I chose a Netgear EX8000 (Nighthawk X6S) Tri-Band Wi-Fi range extender to improve Wi-Fi reception in my house. I have a Virgin Media Superhub, which really only gave good signal strength in the room it was in, and not much through walls and floors.
A key selling point of the EX8000 was being able to use the same UID and password throughout the house. No need to change network as one moves from room to room. The performance of the EX8000 is superb. Signal strength is now excellent throughout the ground floor, and much of the first floor as well. I’m considering a second EX8000 to improve reception for guests in the attic spare room, too.
The fly in the ointment is the software that comes with the EX8000 which is awful. It insists on guiding the user through a set-up wizard. The wizard is easy to use, and would be fine, except it repeatedly fails with an error. In addition to this, and for the first two weeks or so, the EX8000 would inexplicably drop its signal and forget all its settings, so I would be forced to use the wizard again (and again taking two or three goes before the settings would “take”).
I am pleased to report that after that initial fortnight, the EX8000 has settled down, and has been dependably reliable for over a month. I am at a loss as to why any modern electronics need to “settle down”, though. Nothing has changed: the firmware is the same, the position is the same. Why did it give so much trouble to begin with?
To summarise: I would like to have given it five stars, because the raw performance is tremendous; but I have to mark it down because of that awful software. Installation should have been easy, too, but it wasn’t because the wizard kept failing. Even so, I would still buy another one.

After much searching for a solution to our poor WiFi signal in our extension I settled on the nighthawk x6 , I’m currently with talktalk and have the latest talktalk router which gave great coverage through the whole of our 4 bed house however the signal droped to one bar in the extension which happens to be the room we spend most time in. Considered a WiFi mesh solution but it seemed an expensive solution, then I researched WiFi extenders which were a lot cheaper but after reading several reviews it seems that the WiFi speed drops by at least half when using these and also they have a separate network unlike the mesh systems which would mean having to manually change between extender and talktalk router connections when going from room to room. So then I found the Netgear nighthawk, this had the benefits of a mesh system that compliments my talktalk router rather than replacing it. Also as Netgear states it manages to maintain full speed by using its Tri band technology the extra band is crucial in feeding back data to the talk talk router without affecting signal or speed performance, Tri band technology is usually only found on high end mesh systems like the Netgear orbi system. The setup of the nighthawk was easy just press the wps button on the nighthawk and talktalk router ,then they both connect showing three solid white lights. It is important to place the nighthawk in between the area of the talktalk router and the poor signal area, in my case this was at the entrance / inside of the extension at the top end of the hallway and my talktalk router was at the front door at the opposite end of the hallway by the front door. If you go too far away the nighthawk router goes to amber which is still classed as a good connection. Following setup I had full signal bars and near enough full speed at the furthest point of the house in the corner of the extension. In fact I went in to the garden at the shed a further 15 m away n I got 70% signal and approx 90% speed! A great product that looks nice with no unsightly arials sticking out. The cost is at 119 and for that price it gives you a mesh network maintaining the same ssid and password as the talktalk router and gives full coverage and speed operating seamlessly from room to room highly recommended worth every penny it utilizes all of its Tri bands x3 to make sure all devices are spread out on various bands giving full bandwidth ,perfect for gaming and steaming hi definition content seamlessly.