Netgear EX2700 N300 WiFi Range Extender

I puchased this because I was having a hard time streaming movies, programs, audio books, etc., in my sewing room or in the other end of the house. I’m self employed and work in both ends of the house throughout the day. Our router is located in the center of the house.. If my retired husband was watching something in the den, I was having a very hard time pulling anything else in.. This has fixed that problem. It took me a bit to figure out how to connect it to our router (maybe 1/2 hour), but once I figured it out, it was very easy to do. I watched a video on Utube, then followed the directions included with the device, and had it working in no time. It’s very easy to unplug and replug in the other end of the house when I need to move it. With our internet program, we’re suppose to be able to stream two video’s at once, but it just wasn’t working.. To upgrade to the next higher service would have cost $30 a month more..This device fixed the problem and all at a low price.

Great extension of my wireless. I have a” man cave/office” in my unattached garage about 100 feet away from my cable company supplied Wi-Fi modem. It actually was able to reach this but the signal without the extender but it was weak and often dropped the connection or slow speed. I installed this NETGEAR N300 about 50 feet away. I now get great connectivity for my laptop.
The initial setup is to:
– Plug the Range Extender into an outlet (I put them side-by-side) very close to the modem. You DO NOT use an Ethernet cord to set this extender up.
– Wait for the solid green LED power light of the extender.
– Push the WPS button on the extender and another LED light will blink.
– Push the WPS button on you old Modem and watch them connect. I had to look for the WPS button on the old modem because it not obvious but it does exist.
– Once the Router LED light on the Extender is solid green, unplug the extender and move it into an area that already can receive some signal, (I placed the Extender 1/2 way between my office and the old modem) as it cannot “extend” what it cannot detect!
– Select the new Network name it has created (it will be your old network name with an -EXT at the end)
– Use the password you use on your existing Wi-Fi system and you are done!

What a frustrating experience this was. Setup seemed simple enough per the directions. I spent four hours yesterday trying to set it up with no success. I followed the instructions exactly as described for both ways to set it up countless times. Tried to go online to find a way to reach a support person or phone number… no luck. I even spent an hour on the phone with my internet provider. Got nowhere. I tried again today and wasted another 3 hours. I somehow managed to get to an online Netgear support person who told me a tech rep would call me. I finally got a call from the tech rep and he wanted access to my computer to see what my settings were. I reluctantly gave him access only because I could see everything he was doing. He promised me we would get it resolved. After checking a bunch of things, he informed me that I didn’t have a firewall (which I know I do, because I pay for it every year). He quickly realized that I’m not a technological savvy person. So he proceeded to tell me that there were files on my computer that needed to be removed and that there were outside people using my network. He said that would need to be resolved, or my extender would never be able to connect to my network. He said he would check with his supervisor to see if there was something they could do for me. A few seconds later he came back on the phone, and told me they had a Netgear firewall program that was only $99 per year or $299 for a lifetime plan. When I told him I wasn’t interested in purchasing it, he said OK well I can’t help you, have a nice day. REALLY?????!!!! Well, this gal is going to put this extender back in the box and it’s getting shipped right back to where it came from. Won’t be buying any Netgear products again.

wanted to have a way to provide “whole home” back-up internet for when my cable internet becomes unavailable & also provide a wired connection for control & monitoring of a whole home generator. While this can be done by purchasing a cell router, that is an expensive solution.
This extender will serve the same purpose… All one has to do is set the extender up to log-on to a phone mobile hotspot, place the phone near the extender, & the extender provides a wireless connection with virtually whole home coverage. It also provides a wired Ethernet connection that is normally not available from a mobile hotspot.
Product works reliably, & Netgear’s customer support was very good. Highly recommended!

The N300 is a “signal booster, ” but it uses its own SSID. You will still be able to see and connect to your old SSID if necessary. They are separate connections.
After configuring the N300, I plugged it in upstairs, directly above the (downstairs) wireless router. The N300’s upstairs signal strength is now usually one or two bars more than the router’s. The N300 does disconnect from the router on rare occasions, which is probably the fault of the router. Without the N300, disconnects happened every day.
I went through several wireless adapters trying to solve my disconnect problem. This has been the only solution that has worked well enough for me to live with.
Setup is trivial. Plug the N300 into a wall socket that is not too far from your both your wireless router or access point and a computer with wifi, look for the N300’s SSID in the computer’s available connections, connect, open a browser, and follow the instructions. After you finish the configuration, if necessary you can unplug the N300 and move it to to an electrical socket midway between the wireless router and the computers you want to connect.
You should check your signal strength with different plug-in locations and different antenna positions. Putting the N300’s two antennas both parallel to the floor worked best for me.

After four hours trying to get this to work, I have given up. The power comes on. My Netgear Router doesn’t recognize or even find this gizmo. The directions are skimpy and don’t have much advice for troubleshootikng. I have windows 7. I have been on line to netgear support (tedious) which is gobbledygook, to an assist forum because I get a “bluetooth not supported by server” notice which recognizes the problem but has no solutions (that I can understand) , to my cable company (everything works), and as a last resort to netgear by phone. I have been on hold now for over a half hour, being “4th in queue” for 10 minutes. Nobody mans the phones. what should be simple, isn’t. do not buy this product. Update: 47 min on hold and netgear person came on to help. 1 hour and 30 min later we got it working via phone abandoning computer. Now to start yhe locating properly process. Netgear: too too long in set up and assist!!!!!!#&#%÷#/$

Had ZERO difficulties getting it up and running and then connecting my devices to it. Didn’t have to change any passwords, wasn’t hard to do. Not sure why people are experiencing difficulties. I’m a 70-yr-old woman, and it installed easily by myself. I didn’t do anything special.

Note: After getting it up and running (just plug it in, turn it on, and then press the Wifi button or whatever it is), you will want to scan for alternative wifi sources when you try to use your existing devices, and choose the one that has a suffix of “_EXT”. Then click to connect, and Presto, I was connected. ** I should add that I had to press the scan button on the Netgear router I’ve always had. Regardless, you do that everytime you want to add any device, so this is normal. Just regard the extender as another device on the router, but you don’t have to add a password to connect the extender to the router.

The speed was just a trifle slower than the main router source, but then I can’t ever connect at the far end of my house to the main router, so it’s irrelevant that connecting directly to the router provides faster service. There’s no service at all at the far end of the house unless I connect through this extender.

Works beautifully! Now I can watch Netflix and Roku stuff in my far-away bedroom. What a delight!