My Experience with the Amped Wirless SR300 Range Extender

[lfilomeno]

I just went ahead and purchased the SR300. Configured both my router (TP-Link's WR1043ND Not a bad router for its price) and Amped Wireless SR300 with the same SSID and WPA2 paraphrase (I did not wanted to confused the wife if she needed to setup the wifi on her laptop) of my home wireless router. Using Amped Wireless WIFI analytics android application, I had only 40% signal upstairs (My house is made out of concrete and the router is way down in a room that resembles a basement) and various rooms experienced the dead spot syndrome. I configured the SR300 (which I was very skeptical of the supposed easy setup but it was really a very easy no frills setup), fire it up and got 100% signal downstairs and upstairs! No more dead spots around the house! Even though the WR1043ND has the WDS wireless bridge feature on it, I did not configured but I am able to roam around the house without missing a beat signal wise. I could have purchased the TP Link's WA830RE Range Extender (to keep uniformity within my WIFI equipment around the house) but choose Amped wireless SR300 because of its easy setup and the claims of range extension which has proven to be true. I was impressed with the way the SR300 eliminated my wireless dead zones and extended my wireless network. Very impressive product.

 

[stevech]

I just went ahead and purchased the SR300. Configured both my router (TP-Link's WR1043ND Not a bad router for its price) and Amped Wireless SR300 with the same SSID and WPA2 paraphrase (I did not wanted to confused the wife if she needed to setup the wifi on her laptop) of my home wireless router. Using Amped Wireless WIFI analytics android application, I had only 40% signal upstairs (My house is made out of concrete and the router is way down in a room that resembles a basement) and various rooms experienced the dead spot syndrome. I configured the SR300 (which I was very skeptical of the supposed easy setup but it was really a very easy no frills setup), fire it up and got 100% signal downstairs and upstairs! No more dead spots around the house! Even though the WR1043ND has the WDS wireless bridge feature on it, I did not configured but I am able to roam around the house without missing a beat signal wise. I could have purchased the TP Link's WA830RE Range Extender (to keep uniformity within my WIFI equipment around the house) but choose Amped wireless SR300 because of its easy setup and the claims of range extension which has proven to be true. I was impressed with the way the SR300 eliminated my wireless dead zones and extended my wireless network. Very impressive product.

What's the uplink (client to Internet host) file transfer or streaming speed now (bytes/sec), in the formerly dead spots (recalling that WiFi is two-way).

 

[somms]

I just went ahead and purchased the SR300. Configured both my router (TP-Link's WR1043ND Not a bad router for its price) and Amped Wireless SR300 with the same SSID and WPA2 paraphrase (I did not wanted to confused the wife if she needed to setup the wifi on her laptop) of my home wireless router. Using Amped Wireless WIFI analytics android application, I had only 40% signal upstairs (My house is made out of concrete and the router is way down in a room that resembles a basement) and various rooms experienced the dead spot syndrome. I configured the SR300 (which I was very skeptical of the supposed easy setup but it was really a very easy no frills setup), fire it up and got 100% signal downstairs and upstairs! No more dead spots around the house! Even though the WR1043ND has the WDS wireless bridge feature on it, I did not configured but I am able to roam around the house without missing a beat signal wise. I could have purchased the TP Link's WA830RE Range Extender (to keep uniformity within my WIFI equipment around the house) but choose Amped wireless SR300 because of its easy setup and the claims of range extension which has proven to be true. I was impressed with the way the SR300 eliminated my wireless dead zones and extended my wireless network. Very impressive product.

Thanks for the review!

Since this is a repeater, does it still hold true that it is effectively cutting your wireless bandwidth in half when in use?

 

[lfilomeno]

What's the uplink (client to Internet host) file transfer or streaming speed now (bytes/sec), in the formerly dead spots (recalling that WiFi is two-way).

will check today and will post results. client to Extender is listed as 150 and not 300 as the extender advertise. It is way better than what we have before (just dead spots!)

 

[lfilomeno]

Thanks for the review!

Since this is a repeater, does it still hold true that it is effectively cutting your wireless bandwidth in half when in use?

As you mentioned above, I heardthat rthe repeater setup cut some off but I have not experienced any annoying or noticeable lag so far.