Amped Wireless High Power Wireless-N Smart Repeater and Range Extender (SR300)

Haven't had any problems and if one Wi-Fi signal is not strong enough I can always log into it go online to the website and change which wi-fi I am hooked up to and it helps to where you can move the antennas to get in a better signal

I had the satellite TV guy out to add some stuff to our account. They said I needed to have a router, but it turns out I really needed one next to where the satellite came into the house. I moved our router and then had no or poor reception in the part of the house I wanted it, so I bought this. It installed quickly and with very little work from me. However, I expected it would be able to boost the existing signal and rebroadcast it under the same name. Instead it needs it's own name. So, now I have network 1 and network 2. The problem with this is that I use the network for iPads and cell phones. When I attach to 1 but move to the other side of the house I get a very poor signal, but there us still a signal so it does not automatically change to 2. This is obviously not a problem with the product, but with my understanding of how it would work. It works great, but is not the solution for me. I will keep it in one end of the house and buy something else to boost the signal from 1 so I can use it everywhere with my mobile devices.For the price of this unit now you can't go wrong!

PROS: This repeater does what it is supposed to do, which is extend the reach of the WiFi signal from your main router. Our house is not particlarly large (I do wish I had a 5,000 square foot home, like some of the reviewers seem to have), but the problem we encountered is that one of the prior owners had built an extension, and between the extension and the main house was an exterior wall. For some reason, the main router's signal did not do a good job of penetrating that exterior (now interior) wall to provide coverage into the extension. I mean there was some coverage, but streaming video from, let's say, Hulu Plus was really annoying. You had to move the computer so many times and had to perform so many crazy tricks that it harkened back to the days (and I am dating myself here) when people used to put tin foil on the TV antennas (does anyone remember those?) and hold them in their hands to watch the news. It was THAT bad.This repeater has eliminated that problem completely. Not only does my HP running Windows 7 receive a perfectly fine signal (5 bars), but my wife's MacBook Pro also gets a rather strong signal now (alternates between 4 and 5 bars when before it received none) and my friend's iPad (which probably has the worst wireless card of the three) also gets internet access in the extension.Set up was surprisingly easy. I am not a techie, but I followed the instructions and was up and running in about ten minutes. No calls to technical support were needed, and if you follow the instructions on a Windows 7 computer, you will be just fine. To repeat, I was very pleasantly surprised with how easy this was to set up after just following the instructions.CONS: So why four stars? Well, the Hulu Plus streaming works pretty well, but if I am streaming in HD (720), there will be at least one hang up during the show. Then you wait for about half a minute and then it resets and you are fine. Not that big of a deal, but annoying nevertheless, there should be no hang ups at all. If you set it at ED (420), there are no hang ups, but the picture is slightly fuzzier, so there is a trade off I'd rather not make.Another thing is that the security on this repeater is slightly lower than that of the main server. Usually I get them confused, but one is WEP and the other is WPA, and I think that this repeater has the lower security. While this usually is a non-issue, if you are streaming program such as MS Office onto your computer from a secured site, it would not stream properly, or at least it didn't for me as I kept getting corrupted files. This problem seemed to be resolved when I brought the computer over to a place where it could receive a signal from the main router.So, there you have it, a very nice repeater, with a couple of things to consider. For me, at this price, after looking at what's available in the market at this price range, it seems like the issues that this repeater may have (which are occassional and minimal) are somewhat easier to live with than those of other repeaters that cost the same or more, but that decision is up to you.Best of luck to you with your shopping.

First, I will commend AmpedWireless's customer service. They were available to take my call (domestically staffed) and try to get it to work with me. I had two problems, one with DNS delays I could have grudgingly lived with (waiting on every lookup through each device) but in the end the devices simply would not keep the wifi connection "in the needed situation" (though they did work "when in the same room as a testbed"). I was using both the SR300 and the SR10000 and a Wifi router. I was only concerned with relaying (repeating) the 2.4GHz, 40MHz 300MHz "802.11n" connection from the WiFi router through 40 feet of indoor "old house" (plasterboard, some wire mesh, lots of wood and nails and screws - not the best) to the SR10000 (high sensitivity receiver and high power transmitter) which showed me 73-75% (signal (supposed to be over 70% for a reliable connection) then retransmit a 80-85 foot gap through windows (between buildings) to a SR300 used as a bridge. I did NOT need nor care about the "retransmission" of the SR300 - it was a perk but the "3rd Wifi SSID" was not really used since several devices were plugged into the SR300's ethernet ports. I thought this architecture would be good - the SR10000 "in the middle" and a SR300 so I could have multiple IPs at the endpoint (rather than a "gaming adapter" which only connects *one* ethernet IP to Wifi by simply re-writing the MAC/ARP parts of the packet header) - I needed it to work with several IPs at the far end. This all is taking place in an environment rich in 2.4GHz signals but monitoring with inSSIDer on a laptop showing my 3 SSIDs standing 30+db above the rest (though stacked on each other since they have to be the same channel via Amped's implementation). If possible, I'd have desired the repeated signals to have been on different channels, and I suspect they interfered with each other more than the other background stations interfering. I did "force" them all to the same channel (6+2) as I know there are issues when the originating station (the first router) changes channels so I disabled any "auto-channel". The DNS operation of the SR10000 and SR300 was very frustrating, intercepting and trying to be the DHCP server on all ends. This "feature" is so that if the link fails on the "far" end (primary), then the users get the "setup page" of the SR300 or SR10000. I wanted high power reputable equipment of the SR300/10000 so the link would be "solid and strong" and I wouldn't have to be concerned with "users getting the status page if link is down". Besides I had a DHCP server already in the system and most of the end user devices had static IPs. I forced both Amped devices to have their own static (and different) IP in my network, not 192.168.1.240 as the default (and identical!) (would conflict if you have both devices present with the defaults). I did have everything working (when separated by 20 feet each in my home) by disabling the DHCP servers in the SR300 and SR1000 but there were still delays ONLY on DNS queries! And still delays "passing DNS queries" when I had STATICALLY assigned the DNS servers (not let DHCP assign them) of the end equipment though other data went right through. Also, in the actual situation (even using directional antennas), each device kept trying to lower the speed and/or bandwidth and lose track of the next link. I didn't think I was asking too much distance wise, as I had been using 54g not-"high-power" re-purposed (ddwrt flashed) devices for this "fairly reliably" but wanted to use the SR300/SR10000 for a more solid connection at higher throughput (40MHz, 300Mbps) because of the promised higher sensitivity and much higher power output (particularly of the SR10000). My next attempt will be to run ethernet cable to extend the first in-building link to a simple 300n bridge (between the buildings) but the cable run will be difficult and I am not sure what devices I will use for that wifi link yet but probably 2 "ddwrt" bridges in 300n hardware.Having said all this, these SR300 and SR10000 repeaters are individually probably a good solution for a situation where you don't need the "advanced menus" of the devices (and are doing just one relay, not chaining two). I tested them "as designed" (in the same room) and it worked but I *had* to use the advanced setups so as to not have both devices defaulting to the same IP when the link is weak or fails. In all cases however, there were serious delays in DNS relaying! I spoke with the manufacturer and wanted to have the devices "NOT be so smart" but just pass DNS traffic like any other traffic instead of trying to do the lookups themselves (or be ready in case the link failed). I still had trouble with this when the DHCP and built-in DNS was supposed disabled in them. The only other "not normal" setting I changed was to disable WPS (which everyone should do now because of the known weakness of it).