EX7500

Sends signal from inside our house across the patio (40ft) then inside the ADU - so through 2 typical residential outside walls. Easy to install - took me about 10 minutes or so.

Summary: After years with Apple Extreme Base Stations, I switched over to a Netgear Nighthawk X6 and loved its performance in our basically square 800 sf apartment. When we moved to a long, linear 1800 sf condo, I need something to extend our network to cover the master bedroom and back deck. Less than a year later, I'll never purchase another Netgear device.Installation: Gets a extra star here, simply because all you do is plug it in. Literally the only redeeming virtue this product has.Setup:This device uses a web interface to get it setup, which is different from the interface that you use to setup the Nighthawk Router. Like any web based router setup interface, its clunky, loads sporadically, and in dire need of a proper rebuild. It would take a half dozen tries to correctly connect to my router, regardless of being no more than 10 feet apart in direct sight-lines. And dealing with a triple band connection, it would inevitably connect to either the 2.4 ghz or the 5.0 ghz band, but not both simultaneously.UsageOh where to begin. The SmartConnect setup is a surefire way to have a bunch of devices that can't properly navigate the different bands. They just wont connect at all. So go ahead and disable that from the get-go. The OneWifi name is how these setups should all work in theory but in practice with this device, its really just a great way to suffer constant service interruption with spotty handoffs. The extender will rebroadcast the same SSIDs, regardless of whether it has a connection to the router or not, so we'd find ourselves losing internet connection as we moved from one point in the apartment to another, despite having a full strength connection to the network.I was unplugging, resetting, reconfiguring or otherwise manipulating this extender to work with our router constantly. No matter if it was 10 feet away with direct line of site, 30 feet away with direct line of site, or 45 feet away with indirect LOS, connection between the extender and the base station was spotty at best.Even when it was working "properly" we'd be lucky to see 100 MBs down (on a 330 MBs connection)App:Our Nighthawk router required the Netgear Nighthawk app to be managed from my phone. Our Nighthawk extender required the Netgear Genie app to be managed from my phone. And you only new which device you're connected to, and thus which app to use, when you opened the app and got a "this device is not supported" error.Technical Support:This is where Netgear is truly laughable. The device comes with a one-year warranty and after CONSTANT issues, multiple ground-up network rebuilds, and as much dialing in as I could manage, I was still frustrated by terrible performance and called Netgear to see about getting a replacement unit, as clearly something was malfunctioning. Well, the only way to get a support tech to even talk about your issues and possibly get to a point where they will give you a return authorization on a warranty claim, you must sign up for a technical support contract. I spent over an hour arguing with a technician, telling him I wouldn't pay nearly 75% of the cost of the device, just to confirm that it is a piece of junk, and to just give me an authorization number. In the end, all he would do is email me a few tech support "articles" (roughly two sentences and some bullet points) that anyone who spent even a few minutes trying to troubleshoot their device on Netgear's website would have found.In the end... this device, and Netgear as a company, is garbage. If you have a Nighthawk router today and want to upgrade to a mesh experience, do yourself a favor and just sell your hardware and go purchase a vastly superior product.I picked up the eero Pro setup on Prime Day and not only was it stupid easy to set up, but in a month of use, we've had nothing but incredibly stable 330 MBs down performance in every corner of our home (and well out into the yard/street) and have never had to even power cycle any of the devices once. And all my devices that couldn't make heads or tails of Netgear's SmartConnect/OneWifi protocols have no issue navigating the eero. Mesh the way it's supposed to be.

I needed to extend my WiFi range to use with a couple remote outdoor cameras. I installed this halfway between the cameras and the router worked great. No fuss no muss

****[Edit 4: Final Edit] I gave up. When it worked, it worked well. But like others on here, my internet went in and out way too much. With my wife and I working remotely full time now, I needed a reliable extender. This didn't cut it. I will concede that perhaps it is just my own house and not finding a good spot to cover the whole area. My house is about 3200 sq ft. so it is on the larger side, but between the verizon router/modem and this, it should be able to provide coverage. We constantly had problems - I constantly restarted it. The set-up is also weird. I ended up buying Amazon's Eero system and from the start it has been much much better. Save yourself the trouble and look into Eero - I got a set of three and it has been far superior.***[Edit 3: Moved this up front because after a month it is most accurate. It is working absolutely perfectly. I think my issues before had to do with setup or me tweaking my wifi. I had some issues with my internet so reset everything (router included and network connections) and reset up the Netgear. I have had zero issues, no need to reset, never losing any connection at all. And my connection is excellent. I have absolutely no idea what needs to be done to set up correctly, but when done this thing is great. I think reviewing all the other poor reviews, if they try resetting everything it will fix their issues.][EDIT 1: I have noticed that you do need to "refresh" the extender. I just unplug it for a few seconds and plug it back in. About once per day. ][EDIT 2: I ran a network analyzer through Verizon. Before the extender I was getting device connection that were a mix of fair/poor. After finding the right location for the extender all device connections were "strong". Absent any hiccups in the future I will be extremely pleased with this purchase. It has extended the 5ghz range so that I can get stronger speeds.]Needing to work from home with COVID-19, I started using my home office for the first time (moved into my new home last September 2019). Unfortunately it is about as far from my router as possible in my home (router on second floor and office on the first). All the best rated routers were either sold out or would not be able to arrive for months. So I went with this option.I was nervous because all the reviews seemed to agree that there were a lot of problems with connections going in and out etc... and very few positive reviews had any substantive analysis about the product. That said, so far I have had nothing but improvement to my connection. My 2.4 and 5 ghz networks are meshed into one ssid name (I use Verizon Fios and it will auto-use whichever is the best for the device). The range extender also uses the same name so honestly I never really know what network I am connected into at any given time. But I have not noticed any drops in connection - my connection before maxed out at 2 bars and usually was on 1 bar but now it usually has full connection. I'm using a laptop connected into a docking station with monitor and other small devices so I am mostly staying in one place while I work.As for setup, I used the setup wizard via webpage rather than wps. It wasn't hard per se but I am not sure that I followed everything. I think my biggest problem is not really knowing what it is doing at any given time. You can go to a netgear webpage and it typically states that I am not connected to the extender but another page will list my computer as connected. But since my connection is good I can't complain too much.If you are reading this and are looking to extend your range for something like a home office, I think you will be pleased. My home is fairly large (over 3500 sq ft) so I needed something to extend my router's range. This has done a great job so far (will update if any problems come up).It sounds like there might be problems for people who are moving about and have different wifi names for the various connections. I cannot confirm or deny them.