Good signal i recommended it improve my connection..

Good signal i recommended it improve my connection..  Read Less

Bought to use as a WiFi repeater. This one literally grabs an existing WiFi signal out of the air and repeats it (in repeater ...  Read More

Bought to use as a WiFi repeater. This one literally grabs an existing WiFi signal out of the air and repeats it (in repeater mode). This is a pitiful method for repeating a wireless signal (of any kind). It does not improve reception. Rather, it transmits what is available. And (for example), two WiFi bars are available in my living room. And so, two bars are what you will (at most) receive from this device when repeating that signal.Another repeater I have can use its own WiFi signal to direct a connecting user to an existing network-- through its ethernet ports. Such a fascinating concept-- I know!! This method is more reliable and (for all intents and purposes) improves reception (eg, you will get additional WiFi bars on your smartphone) of an existing signal that may have little or no WiFi connectivity at that location.Two months in (using this device as a repeater and borrowing its ethernet ports to add a switch to my network), and all my network lights are flashing. And, I'm having very strange connectivity issues all over the place. This eventually broke a mirrored RAID across my network-- causing me to have to spend two months recovering about 16TB of data by copying from my NAS to my mirror, rebuilding my NAS mirrored RAID, copying back, and then re-adding my mirroring system.And also, the WiFi repeater is now dropping out. I can't (reliably) sit in my living room and connect to the internet or attach to devices on my network using the WiFi signal this device is repeating. If I restart a WiFi device on a client, it *might* connect-- for about twenty seconds. It might not work at all. However if I turn off this device, the two bars coming from my main router are enough for any WiFi device to attach to my network reliably and attach to secure shell daemons or browse the web with no problem (actually, I'm using one right now). And, all my network lights magically stop flashing.I usually have a lot of high praise for TP-Link networking products. But, there is *no way* I can recommend this one. And, I will now question every TP-Link product I buy from this moment forward. Does this company only manufacture cheap junk, now (much like many other brands, nowadays)?UPDATEUsing a WiFi router in repeater mode and using its LAN ports (bridged mode) caused my problems. WiFi dropouts are caused by using wpa_supplicant in wext mode (instead of nl80211). I can't blame either of these settings on TP-Link. This was a very strange circumstance (two problems caused by bad configuration) that made TP-Link's device seem to be the culprit of some much larger problems. Using it *correctly* (as a second WiFi device with the same SSID as the main WiFi device) and starting wpa_supplicant properly fixed all my problems.As for my NAS-- using the router as a repeater and connecting it to LAN caused this!!! TP-Link's device is innocent on this account. Use it as an additional WiFi router if attempting to extend coverage (with the same SSID)-- not in repeater mode + attached to LAN! If using a GNU/Linux system, start wpa_supplicant with both modes active (if there are multiple types of WiFi routers on your network): wpa_supplicant -D nl80211,wext -i [interface] -c [passphrase_file].  Read Less