NETGEAR WiFi Mesh Range Extender EX7000 - Coverage up to 2100 sq.ft. and 35 devices with AC1900 Dual Band Wireless Signal Booster & Repeater (up to 1900Mbps speed), plus Mesh Smart Roaming

This is a very impressive piece of kit for the purpose I bought it for: a very long-range signal booster.I have the blessing (and curse) of living within sight of work (sitting on my back patio looking at it right now actually). My living room window has a 738 feet (according to Google Maps) obstruction-free view of the window of my office at work. Most of the professional reviews maxed out their testing range at 150 feet, which made me doubt that this booster would work for the purpose I intended, but I figured I would take a chance.The WiFi at work is atrocious, mine at home is pretty good (ASUS RT-AC68U, local cable internet provider that is pretty decent). Using my phone (2016 Google Pixel XL), and using the OOKLA Speedtest app I measured my performance. I moved my home router into the window at home prior to going to work. A single test was performed for each situation, since I didn't have the time or inclination to perform multiple tests. The differences were significant enough that broad conclusions can be reached without additional data. Also, it's a fairly cluttered area for network activity; I see 17 WiFi networks at this moment.At home, about 5 feet away from the router, my phone had a ping of 18 ms, download of 50.6 Mbps, and upload of 10.25 Mbps.I was able to see my home network with just my phone (barely), resulting in a ping of 86 ms, download 0.04 Mbps, upload of 0.27 Mbps. I was actually pretty impressed with that, considering the 738 feet and two panes of glass separating my phone from the router. However, the signal dropped as soon as I moved the phone out of direct line of sight (thick concrete block walls at work).Since those results were obviously inadequate, I hooked up the Nighthawk. The results were dramatic: 19 ms latency, 28.86 Mbps download, 10.78 upload. I tested the Nighthawk in several areas at work; it was generally consistent.The area covered by the new WiFi network was adequate. Hard to say exactly how large, since interior walls and work equipment was obstructing the signal in places. But definitely adequate for my purposes.So, to summarize, this is a great piece of gear if you have need to get a WiFi signal to an area 700 feet from your router. Unquestionably a 5-star purchase.

WOW - triples the speed at the far end of my apartment. I purchased the NightHawk AC 5300, X8 about two months ago and was blown away by its power to reach the far end of my apartment without an extender. Prior to this I had the very well respected Apple Extreme and an Apple extender to get that far.But as the weeks went by I became frustrated because although the Router kept me connected, it was very slow. I had to settle for a 2.4 connection and even that was sometimes pretty slow on my tablet and on my phone. I finally gave in to my craving to get the extender to go with the very good router.It has made an enormous difference and has surprising reach. At least half of my house now gets a stronger signal from the extender than from the router itself. Netgear's instructions say that an amber light means an ok signal. I kept wandering all around trying to get a blue light for both 2.4 and 5, which would be an "excellent" signal.I would suggest not spending a lot of time trying to get blue lights - when I finally gave in to one amber and one blue, I discovered that the amber signal was more than "ok" - it was 2+ times faster. And then tonight, I suddenly found that both 2.4 and 5 were blue. Not sure I will always get such a good signal, even on the 5 band, but it's held all night. I would suggest getting the best amber you can (if you can't get blue), and let it settle in. Also, check your speed, you might be very happy with amber.If I could, I would have docked half a star for the poor placement of the power cord into the extender. It actually prevents me from placing the lowest antenna where I'd like. But overall performance was too good to dock a whole star for something this minor by comparison.I also found it a pleasure to set up with another Netgear product. The extender and router found each other within a minute and contact was stabilized in another 20 or so seconds.