EAX80

Despite having arguably one of the most reliable and stable Internet connections, compliments of Mr Elon Musk, the Wi-Fi unit supplied just did not reach all of my home rooms🙁. I have tried SO MANY Wi-Fi Extenders, Booster plugs, to no avail. Ethernet worked very well, but only on that single cable! Putting a network switch at the cable termination point would work perfectly, but I would have spend a small fortune putting a full network of cables into my home. Not really an option. 🙁 Welcome into my world, my Life Saver, my new best friend, the NETGEAR Nighthawk WiFi 6 Mesh Range Extender (EAX80) !! So SIMPLE to setup and install It makes Plug & Play look complicated! With in 3 minutes I had Super Fast ( well above 100Mbs) in EVERY corner of my home, and garage and garden!! One week later, and the signal is getting stronger! The Nighthawk has totally revolutionised my home Internet experience. Thank you NETGEAR 😇

Credit where is is due, Netgear helped me through all the issues and both their router and extender are fully synced. Nothing but praise for their help. Update - Netgear have issued an update and 75% of my issues have gone. Thinking i should keep it despite earlier issues. Having the Netgear Nighthawk I decided as Sky Q and the mini box kept dropping out to buy this extender . I had nothing but problems, as the signal kept dropping, sometimes when left to the wifi units to ‘choose either the 2.5 or 5 ghz bands. Put it on the Smart Connect , well it isn't smart and the problems got worse, Sometimes For a Few down time swconds. As you walked passed the extender away from The Nighthawk the signal dropped but you didnt move onto the extender. Best think about these two units you get plenty of exercise as you run between them. There must be some software updates due but i am not waiting for that.

This review is about the EAX80 (AX6000) Nighthawk WIFI Extender. Be aware that Amazon is bunching together the stars for all Nighthawk products, so the EAX80 seems to have good star rating but this is only because it is sharing the same rating as the excellent Gaming Switch and the RAX200. If you are past the 30-day return period you can claim that you were misled by Amazon's "false" reviews and demand a refund or open a Small Claims Court claim. BTW, fellas, people are confusing specs with model name in several reviews: the "ax" means the wifi protocol and the number following it is the speed in Mbits (6000Mbits or 6Gbits). The name of the model is EAX80 which is an 802.11ax router with an output of 6000Mbits. Also, the "r" stands for "router" whilst "e" stands for "extender". In the past month, I have gone through several brands from TP-Link to Asus and whilst I am happy with the RAX200, this extender has been nothing else but trouble. It is one of the dumbest extenders I have ever used and in the end, I decided it was better to re-use an old Airport Extreme in bridge mode (access point mode) than this expensive brick. The main problems I had with this are: - It doesn't automatically serve devices closer to it if they are connected to the main router. I don't know what the threshold would be but sometimes my MacBook was struggling connecting to the router when the extender was just a meter away and the damn extender wouldn't take over. - The darned thing is too tall, much taller than the Virgin Hub 3 or the Airport Extreme. It didn't fit anywhere I tried. - It constantly dropped the connection. - The setup was incredibly painful, I might have reset this extender to factory settings at least 6 times until I got the hang of what exactly to do in order to install it with the useless Nighthawk app: - Basically, every time an install fails just close the app and reset the extender to factory settings, it will save you a lot of time in the long run. - First, open the app, THEN plug and turn on the extender. Don't turn it on before you opened the app. If you did, turn off the extender and close and re-open the app. - After you opened the app, just proceed when BOTH the ON light AND the 2GHz light are on, it might take a few seconds or 10 minutes or an hour, don't proceed until both lights are on. - Turn off mobile data from the start if you are using the app on mobile. Seriously do, or it will fail to connect in the last stages of setup. - Even with setup running fine, sometimes the extender just didn't work as expected: once everything was done, the 5GHz light didn't light up until 10-20 minutes after successful setup. Restored to factory settings. - Then the ethernet ports didn't work, to which I wrote to their useless customer support and they advised me to connect a cable between the router and the extender to set it up as a wired access point. Do you see how stupid they are? How can I connect a cable to an ethernet port that is not working in the first place and why the hell did I spend so much money for wireless cableless router to extender mesh when for less than £30 more I could wire a full RAX80 to my RAX200 as an access point instead. Returned to Amazon as faulty. Now, without it, I can connect better with the Apple Airport Extreme and the router itself. It might have been a problem of interference but hey for the price, the extender should negotiate channels with the router.

Once you understand that this device can be configured as a wired extender as well as a WiFi to WiFi extender then the possibilities are enormous. I have very thick walls and used to use Apple products that were falling over all the time. That meant I had cabling in place and after a call to the help desk quickly managed to configure these extenders. I now have three extenders and a RAX200 router. The two routers are used in wired mode to bring WiFi to areas of our house that were unreachable and one to make a traditional WiFi to WiFi extension. All works well and fast!

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 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.

By James T 12345 I live in a L shaped house with the router at the end of one of the house. The furthest point from the router had almost not Wi-Fi signal. I looked at several options from budget friendly plugs to full on money no object mesh systems. The nighthawk extender was my final pick. Easy to set up and it now gives a decent Wi-Fi signal throughout the house. Decent price from Amazon and quick delivery made the whole job very easy.

Sold as a mesh range extender, it is neither. It is a wifi repeater. It receives a wifi signal (and for 5gz has to be near the original router) and makes a completely new wifi signal. You can name it the same as your original one, or have a different name but your phone, computer, ipad or whatever see the signal coming out of the "extender" as a completely different signal from your original router and the phone etc has to specifically log out of the old signal and log on to the new signal even if the names of the wifi output (SSID) are the same. The Nighthawk has nothing to do with the traditional view of mesh as an evenly distributed common amplified single wifi network picking up signal uninterruptedly as you walk through your network/house. You cannot daisy chain with it so the range is limited by just one boost - so go through a couple of walls and you are done. There is nothing you can do to extend any further with the unit. No signal and no good. If you have two extenders, unlike a mesh system, if the units have the same wireless name, they end up talking to each other not the router and all you get is a powerful wifi signal connected to nothing. Useless. If you want to site a single wireless repeater in one place to extend the signal a small amount in one direction from your router and connect and disconnect as if there are two separate signals, it is fine, but if that is the case the super fast advertised wifi speed is redundant because you are limited by the wifi speed of your original router. If this is your aim, buy something much cheaper and avoid wasting your money on this very expensive repeater. Maybe just used an old router if it has WDS on it, or a cheap repeater. I bought two in error and returned them. I think that Netgear are misrepresenting their product. Actually the Netgear technical desk told me to send them back because the very helpful technical agent who talked me through the situation over about 30 minutes, explained to me that I had bought in error.

Ottimo ripetitore fa il suo lavoro in modo eccellente, per sincronizzarlo basta posizionarlo vicino al modem principale accenderlo ed aprire l'app netgear. Pochi semplici passi ben dettagliati e il ripetitore è configurato, e si può posizionare dove si preferisce per distribuire il segnale in modo ottimale. La velocità wifi è eccellente uguale (inferiore solo di pochi Mb/s) rispetto al modem di casa, passando da una stanza all'altra non ci sono discontinuità di segnale. L'ho configurato con modem FASTGate di Fastweb con linea in fibra

Ich hatte seit längerem immer wieder Probleme mit dem WLAN. Sobald ich das Stockwerk wechselte war der WLAN Zugang reine Glücksache. Ich habe versucht das Problem mit einem einfachen Repeater zu beheben, leider ohne Erfolg. Jetzt habe ich etwas mehr Geld investiert und mir diesen Router gekauft. Die Installation war denkbar einfach. Strom anschließen, einen Moment warten, WPS an beiden Geräten drücken, wieder etwas warten. Danach habe ich noch den richtigen Standort gesucht und seit dem habe ich im gesamten Haus ein stabiles, starkes WLAN Signal.

Easy to set up and did the jobe required, to eliminate floor cables in an area that represented a possible trip hazard.

EAX80 połączony jako wzmacniacz z AX12 Netgear , metr od routera pokazuje moc sygnału ok. 70% .Słabo wzmacnia sygnał , słabe transfery w sieci , robi tylko zamieszanie . Narazie wróciłem do poprzedniego wzmacniacza EX8000 który jest zdecydowanie lepszy .

Je suis vraiment surpris par la puissance de ce répéteur ! Je je n’ai plus une seule zone où le signal WIFI est faible et le WIFI un régal pour les appareils qui sont compatibles. Installation facile grâce à l’application sur iPhone. Un prix plus que raisonnable quand on compare sur internet, les nombreux ports ethernet sont bien utiles. Je ne regrette pas mon achat en achetant Netgear je savais que je ne serai pas déçu.