Asus - Dual-Band Wireless-N Range Extender

It is a solid Wireless Range extender. It is very easy to setup up and I have found that it has excellent range and can handle a heavy work load. Of all the personal home range extenders out there, it is on the start of the more expensive side (but it does look cool). Worth the purchase if you want to plug it in and not worry about any issues.

I needed a wi-fi signal boost for an old tablet that didn't work well. The Asus EA-N66R does the job. A lot of older equipment like my tablet still uses "G" wi-fi. The Asus will boost either G or N, but not both at the same time. I am using it as a repeater. It also will give you a connection for a wired ethernet device or can be an access point. The selling point for me is that it was the fastest (450 mbps) one on the shelf at Best Buy. I can't comment on range because I haven't experimented with that. The blue light is only for show and doesn't appear to have a function. It was easy to set up and appears to be a solid performer.

I have used a number of modems, routers, combos as well as extenders over the years. to be honest the last extender i picked up worked okay but this one is exceptional no doubt about it. i have one device in particular that does not pickup wifi signals well. as mentioned i had purchased another brand/type of extender awhile back, even used a parabolic ant. but still could only get full strength unless within 20 feet of the signal source. then came the asus extender, i decided on it because of the orthogonally-arranged antennas designed to lessen interference and boost signal coverage. i set it up and literally can walk a full block away now and get one bar shy of full strength!! needless to say anywhere on our property i now get full strength and all my other devices which benefit too. one tested, my alienware laptop was able to use it three blocks away, again substantial improvement. i am very pleased with this device needless to say more. fyi the ethernet cable which comes with is used during setup, there after it is not necessary.

I give this 4 stars instead of 5 because the documentation is horrible and misleading. I purchased this product to use as an Access Point and THEN read the reviews on this site. Over the first 3 days I experienced many of the same problems that others have reported here. Mainly, not being able to hold a consistent wireless connection and not being able to log-in to the GUI. Mine would drop my connection every few hours or so. Over the first 3 days of owning the EA-N66 it dropped my connection at least a couple of dozen times. Instead of ripping my hair out (which I thought of doing many times) I stuck with it. And the reason I stuck with it was that when it worked, it was great! Great speed and great range! So I started reading all the reviews here and anywhere else I could find them. There was some nice information in those reviews and I'm glad to say that I have now have seemed to fix all of the problems I was experiencing. I have had a solid connection for the last 6 days. Not that this is a long time, but considering that it couldn't stay stable for more than a couple of hours, this is great and makes me think that the problem is solved. Everything is working great and I've had zero issues during this time. So my goal here is to tell you what I did to resolve the issues that had so many people, including myself, frustrated to the point of throwing this thing out the window and ripping ASUS a new one. Hopefully this information will save you the 3 days of time it took me to figure this out. I am using this in Access Point (AP) mode. I cannot vouch for its effectiveness in any other mode. I'm not going to bore you with a list of features as they are printed in other reviews and on the ASUS Website. As I write this the current firmware version is 1.0.1.8h. This is the version I am using. Other posts and the documentation tell you how to get to the internal setup page for this product. After getting there and going through the Quick Internet Setup, there are a few things that I found that were needed to make the EA N66 work consistently:. Here they are: Be sure to: * Give this unit a different SSID than your router. * Put this unit on a wireless channel that is open in your area. (There is a great free tool to help you in this regard. It's a program called inSSIDer HOME. Download it metageek.net. Go the the Downloads page and scroll to the bottom. Download the HOME version which is free. This tool will show all of the networks available in your area, what their SSID is, what channels they are on, and the strength of their signal. This is all great information to have when you set up the EA N66.) * In the LAN Settings, Disable DHCP Override! This product wants to re-assign IP addresses to your devices if it ever looses a connection which can create IP address conflicts with your router. Disabling DHCP Override will allow your router to assign the IP addresses. * Give the EA N66 a STATIC IP ADDRESS! Do not let it get its IP address automatically. I would loose connection to this device every couple of hours until I gave it a Static IP Address. This seemed to solve all of the connection stability problems I was having. These last two are very important. Good luck! This is a great product when it's stable and hopefully this will save you some frustration.

I purchased this to extend my wifi signal to the upstairs bedrooms that had 1 or 2 bars, after installation the bedrooms have 5 bars consistently. Easy to set up, No complaint so far it has been up and running for about 2 months with no drops.

The device works very well as a repeater for my ASUS wireless router. I am able to keep my wireless signal strength at or near five bars and can stream movies easily in HD anywhere in my house (two-level home with about 2000 sq ft per level). Without using this device as a repeater, this was not possible. The set-up instructions were lacking in clarity. The instructions seemed to suggest you could go directly to the ASUS web site through the wireless network to access the set-up page for the device. I found that the device needs to be hard wired into a computer using the supplied Ethernet cable in order to connect to the device's on-line set-up page. Once I figured this out, I found that the set-up was fairly straight forward. Overall, I am very happy with this device.

I bought this to extend my wireless range to the upstairs bedrooms, the signal went from 1 to 2 bars to consistently 5 bars with no drop signals. Very easy to set up and looks great with the blue lights as well.

Good for device to support 3 modes (WAP, bridge, range extender). I use it for a WAP. Fairly easy for techie to configure; otherwise, not. Poor documentation enclosed; must search web for advice and shared info (always sucks to unravel poor sentence structure and inconcise communication). Well constructed; fairly strong signal; configurable; stable. Bright operational light(blue); some prefer bright/extensive - I do not. Small form factor.