TP-Link Archer C3150 Product Details
- Boost Your Wi-Fi — The Archer C3150 V2 runs at combined speeds of up to 3150Mbps across its 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands*
- Larger Data Streams — Broadcom® NitroQAM™(1024-QAM) technology with 4-Stream lets the Archer C3150 V2 transmit 25% more data
- Multiple Reliable Connections — MU-MIMO (Multi-User MIMO)** technology allows the router to run several devices at the same time to achieve speeds up to 4X faster than standard AC routers
- Smoother Performance — Smart Connect technology assigns each of your devices to the best available Wi-Fi band
- Powerful Processing — A 1.4GHz dual-core processor ensures simultaneous browsing, streaming, and gaming without delay
Making Incredible Speed a Reality
With combined speeds of up to 3150Mbps, the Archer C3150 V2 easily handles demanding activities at the same time. The router uses the latest innovations in Wi-Fi technology to create a faster, stronger, more reliable wireless network for your home. With the Archer C3150 V2, lag, dropped connections, and dead zones will become a thing of the past.
NitroQAM and 4-Stream for Maximum Wi-Fi Speed
The Archer C3150 V2 boasts a powerful combination of advanced Broadcom® NitroQAM™ technology and 4-Stream technology, which boosts wireless speeds up by 25%. This provides the speed and elite performance that you need to support your most demanding online applications, including simultaneous 4K streaming and online gaming.
More Throughput for Connecting Multiple Devices at the Same Time
MU-MIMO has been fine-tuned for better performance, providing more than twice the throughput across multiple MU-MIMO devices. It lets the Archer C3150 V2 talk to several devices at once, while Smart Connect automatically places each device on the best available Wi-Fi band. With both working together, everyone can hop online at the same time without having to wait, and each device can always get the best connection.
Moreover, dynamic Smart Connect technology automatically selects the best available band for each device.
Extraordinary Home Entertainment
Archer C3150 V2 can support many devices when you invite friends to your large house to entertain. It can maintain multiple simultaneous HD streaming, online gaming and other content consumption without lag. The Archer C3150 V2 can provide a maximized coverage and enable your devices to stay covered, near or far as it. Don’t let your mobile lifestyle stop the streaming and enjoy your home party.
Airtime Fairness for More Efficient Wi-Fi Distribution
We’ve all encountered slowdowns when multiple devices are trying to connect to Wi-Fi at the same time.
Phones,laptops, and tablets using older Wi-Fi standards can slow down your home network.
With Airtime Fairness, the Archer C3150 V2 equally divides attention between newer and older devices
improving overall Wi-Fi performance and reliability without letting older devices limit your network.
The Power at the Heart of Your Router
Unlike normal routers, which usually have single core processors, the Archer C3150 V2 features a powerful 1.4GHz dual core processor.
This unlocks the full potential of MU-MIMO and 4-Stream technologies, helping your dual band router maximize its performance potential.
Coverage for Your Entire Home*
Four high-performance dual band antennas and high-powered amplifiers help create a strong, far-reaching network for your home. Beamforming technology focuses the Wi-Fi transmission in the direction of your connected devices, concentrating the signal where you need it the most. This allows you to enjoy fast, stable Wi-Fi in every part of your home, as well as on the patio, by the pool, and even in the yard.
A Router You Can Show Off
An elegant, minimalist design allows the Archer C3150 V2 to be integrated seamlessly into the decor of any room. The LED indicators can be switched off to prevent distraction at night when placed in bedrooms or common spaces.
Plug Into Sharing, Plug Into Stability
You can quickly and easily share photos, music, and other files with family and friends. Just connect an external hard drive to the Archer C3150 V2’s USB 3.0 port or USB 2.0 port and immediately start enjoying lightning-fast transfers. To help your wired devices reach peak performance for smooth gaming and streaming, you can also create fast, stable wired connections using the four Gigabit Ethernet ports, which transfer data at speeds up to 10x higher than standard Ethernet ports.
What’s Included:
- TP-Link Archer C3150 Wireless Router
- Ethernet Cable
- Power Supply Cable
- Online Installation Manual
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Duc N. –
I thought it worth my money until i start to play game, the ping is so unstable that keep jumping up and down. 200$ really?
Rough-N-Ready –
Completely changed our home internet experience with the TP-Link AC3150. We were running a Netgear N600 dual-band WNDR3400 that was not taking advantage of the fiber optic upgrades Spectrum has done in our neighborhood. Nothing in our home has buffered even once since I set up the new router last week. Just ran a 70.76 Mbps Speedtest, where we were lucky to get 30 Mbps, with connectivity issues, before. On recommendations I placed our older devices on the 2.4 GHz channel and newer/faster devices on the 5 GHz. Seems to be working very well so far. I wish I would’ve made this upgrade sooner, as it would have saved a lot of the time I spent trying to diagnose an old router’s quirks. Oh, and setup was very simple following the included quick start guide. I would definitely recommend this router. We love it.
Judi –
This machine has been better than we could’ve ever expected! We just had 14 people here using it! Streaming, wi-fi, TV and internet all at the same time!
Stephen –
Xfinity Blast Pro, TP-Link TC7650, Cat 7 Ethernet Cable Gold Plated, Monster Coax Cable
TomK –
I thought I did my homework and ordered what I really wanted/needed to improve performance of my Wireless-N installation, I even returned an AC2300 router thinking I had ordered wrong. Not true. But first…the first delivery of this router the power supply was DOA. The replacement order was received two days later and was OK. My goal was to replace my aging Netgear R6300 router which is rated for 300 Mbps and can actually deliver 220 Mbps wired. Now that my service has shot up to 400 Mbps the specs on the 3150 V2 indicates that it can easily handle that speed and the wireless-N spec of 1000 Mbps would really give me a boost in speed over my wireless network. Not true, not even remotely true. Performance was spotty and less that what I am presently getting. This router has four antennas. That means to start with divide all data values by four. That would mean wireless-N should deliver a max of 250 Mbps. Divide that number by 2 for simplex communication and my theoretical max should be 125 Mbps on any one antenna (channel). I got 10-15 Mbps. The Netgear R6300 gets 25-40 on speediest.net. They call this a gaming router for multiple users. It did not like driving my external 15 dBi OMNI antenna. My SSID Broadcast was down almost 15 dBi from my existing signal from my Ubiquity Outdoor+ radio.Lastly, since it did not perform well as a replacement for my Netgear router, I decided to use it in WDS Bridging Mode to replace an old TP-Link WR841N 150 Mbps router. Unfortunately for me this has to be the ONLY router in TP-Link’s list of 30 plus routers that cannot be placed in WDS Bridge Mode. Access Point yes, Bridge Mode no. On this item I had to email TP-Link support to find this out. For me I have to return this router.Not to be so negative though, I wired my computer directly to a LAN port and it easily hit 417 Mbps down/42 Mpbs up on speedtest.net. I suspect that to achieve great through-put in Wireless-N mode you have to “aggregate” (combine) all LAN ports to achieve what I get from my Netgear router. I don’t have four external 15 dBi antennas to try with it but it would be interesting to experiment with that configuration.
Srv –
Initially I was skeptic about the speed that this device can deliver, i have 300MBps up and down speed internet, I was able to get 294MBps down speed through wifi and the same over the wired lan. This device is way better than I anticipated, although it is advertised as 2133 mbps, it is delivering more than that. And what is more awesome is that I have a 3 storey house 3000 sqft, I get atleast 220MBps speed at all levels and even in the very corner of the home. The setup took me less than a minute. I’ve owned this for a day now and i’m very happy with the purchase so far.Update: within a day of usage, I saw some flaws. Some of my Android APPs do not load pages when on Wifi, but it shows up on my mobile LTE. My wife has observed the same issue on her mobile. Google APP does not show searches, Facebook app does not open the images.Update: I had to update the DNS under the DHCP settings to make the apps load the pages properly, that fixed the issue, but there is occasional slowness in the network.Update: I’m returning this, constant drop of 2.4 ghz was way too annoying . Tried fixing but nothing worked. Didn’t want to waste time troubleshooting.
Derek Miller –
I bought this router along with a few other models and this one got me the best range /speed. I didn’t like the fact that if you had the TP Link app open on your phone and had the web browser open on a computer also, you can only be logged into one at a time so it would log you out of whichever one was logged into first Also, the app and the web browser don’t have all the same functions. Which isnt that uncommon, but there are features on the App that I wish were on the browser.Everything was working fine for the first week or two, but now the router keeps dropping its internet connection. It’s still broadcasting its SSID, but my phone and laptop will show that its not connected to the internet and my TV will stop playing and keep buffering for a fee minutes before it comes back online. I’ve tried resetting it, changing all the settings back to stock (Some forums said that turning on MU-MIMO was causing the issue so I turned it back off and to no avail)I then found out it’s been doing it far more often that I thought because my mother never bothered to tell me about all the issues she was having while working from home and having to turn on her mobile hotspot to continue working.I know it’s not the modem/router supplied by AT&T because I actually have 4 wireless routers in my house and when this TP-Link unit would lose connection, I would connect to one of my other networks and it was still operating just fine.So this unit is now going back and I’ve decided to try TP-Link’s powerline adapter and just hooking one of my other wireless routers upstairs to try and get a faster connection.For those who are still looking to purchase this unit, I’ve got a 1Gbps down and 1Gbps up fiber connection from AT&T and being upstairs from this unit I could get right around 300Mbps down and 270 Mbps up on a good day.Standing right next to the router I could get 468 Mbps down and 399 Mbps Up.What doesn’t make sense is everytime I used their app to check that the incoming connection speed was (see attached screenshots) it was NEVER over 600 Mbps down and rarely over 200Mbps Up. So how I was able to get a faster speed through the router than what was supposedly going into the router is beyond me. Also had days where speeds on up and down couldn’t even get over 40Mbps….also see attached screenshots to get an idea of how over the place the speeds were.
Nano –
After setting up MAC address filtering and playing with it a bit via the web interface and the tether app I started noticing some devices were blocked that should not have been and vice versa. I then started getting errors in the management interface. I decided to return the router since this basic functionality is not working reliably.
Albertodh –
Very bad purchase, after a few hours the 5ghz wifi disappeared and I could never make it work again, the technical support asked me for all the data, I gave them to them and they replied that they did not know what was happening and suggest me to change it. While in the tp-link forum there are a lot of cases like mine. It really is a big disappointment and I suggest not buying anything from this brand.
Camilo Cerchiari –
Problems became evident as soon as I finished installing the Archer C3150 V2. it is supposed to provide 2.4 and 5 GHz connections, each has its own SSID. I used a wifi analyzer app to verify the signal of each SSID.To my surprise, this is what I found:- 2.4 GHz connection is not available.- 5 GHz connection is there, but with the SSID I have configured for the 2.4 GHz connection (check the screenshots).- I get lots of errors codes when I try to change settings for these wireless connections via the web administration (check the screenshots).- the featured MU-MIMO has to be turned on via the web administration, if you can. I got an error when turning it on (check the screenshots).Tech support showed interest in helping but the problems did not get solved.
Seth Fowers –
This is Consumer Reports best ranked router and when I bought, this is strangely the ONLY place on the internet to purchase it. Unfortunately it arrived in an unmarked box and upon opening I found the face of the router to be all scratched up. This gave concern for the overall condition and availability of a warranty so it was returned. I can’t comment on the functionality. This begs the question, if this is the best wifi router, why isn’t it sold as new anywhere at this time? Hmm…