Good product, very technical, wireless coverage was not what I expected for price
924000
I bought this product based upon reviews from many websites and while the product seemed to be very good for technical oriented people, but the wireless range of this router was not any better than cheaper NetGear routers that I own.  The management interface was also slow to respond on multiple occasions.  I purchased the 9dbi antennas to enhance the wireless coverage, but no change was noticed so I sent the router back based upon these issues.
4191491
I mainly purchased this item for my bedroom computer, which was having trouble picking up the WiFi signal from across the house with a 10 year old Belkin WiFi dongle. In that regard, it was an absolute success. It receives a much stronger signal, and has good throughput. I have 15 mbit service and was able to use my full bandwidth with a pretty good ping as well for gaming. In terms of local networking, I was able to transfer files between computers on my home network at around 3.5 mb per second, a bit lower than I hoped, but still an improvement. Streaming HD video from my NAS unfortunately did have some hiccups as well.

Be aware that the driver included on the included disk is well out of date. Since this product is a year or two out of its support cycle, I assumed the disk would contain the last most recent drivers, but it did not. The drivers were from 2011. Using them generally worked alright, except the device would disconnect and reconnect a few times per day, not from WiFi, but from the computer itself, as though the device were rebooting itself. That was a real deal-breaker, but before returning, I decided to make sure I had the most recent drivers, and lo and behold there were drivers from 2013 available on the TP Link website. Hopefully those will fix the issues, but if not, I will update.

Bottom line, for the price I paid for this item, I am satisfied (assuming the disconnection issue is resolved). If you need something with top notch performance or are not computer-literate (i.e. not sure how to go about finding and installing new drivers), you should spend a little more money on something newer.

EDIT: The disconnection issues have continued. During average use, they seem to happen every couple hours. During strenuous usage, such as a large download, it will disconnect every couple minutes. Very strange. Returning unfortunately.
2519275
I needed a wireless adapter for a older laptop I have without one. I was looking for a small one that would not stick out of a back usb port on my laptop and this unit stuck out for under 10 dollars. Once I got it is was relatively easy to install the drivers. I just used the driver files themselves to install the unit because I don't like all of the crapy software these things come with that promise to control wireless connectivity. There is nothing wrong with using windows to configure your wireless networks. The connectivity speed was as posted and the transfer rate was a little better than that of a 100mb network interface card which was to be expected but the reception was a little shady. I live in an apartment where my wifi router is in my back bedroom and my patio is 3 walls away from the router but yet when I am on my patio I only get a quarter of normal reception (24mbps) which is probable due do not having an antenna.

This is a great wireless adapter as long as it is not being used for long distances.
4459937
very good and seamless coverage.  lacking some flexibility on configuration, but happy to trade that off for stability, reliability and performance

update Oct 20th: this is actually one of the few vendors to update the firmware for the KRACK vulnerability that was recently found for all WIFI WPA2 devices.  It took them a couple of days.  Surprised by their agility and response, this is a product that i would recommend to my friends and family easily.  It is a very, very good product.  Very happy with the purchase.
4397238
I recently moved into a pretty large house (4,000+ sq. ft in two stories) and had serious issues with WiFi coverage - which particularly annoyed me as a network architect.  I had previously used  wifi routers based on DD-WRT/Open-WRT/Tomato, etc. to get the best level of control and coverage for a low cost, but as the technology has matured the price of a good off-the-shelf router with 802.11A/B/G/N/AC MIMO has gotten expensive, and still didn't offer the level of information and control I wanted and needed to monitor and manage my kids online activities.  The AC-PRO APs have met and exceeded my expectations in pretty much every way.  Setup and configuration was simple, and a pair of the APs (one on each floor) covers my entire house and then some even with sub-optimal placement due to the fact that I have not yet taken the time to properly cable the house to put the APs in the best place for optimal coverage.  The APs are very effective at the job I need them to do, and for a cost that is at least competitive with any router I could buy with similar antenna design (3x3 MIMO.)  The controller software is great and the automated channel selection, band-steering and roaming handoff between APs all works flawlessly.  Due to the controller's deep integration with the rest of Ubiquiti's UniFi product line, I intend to add a security gateway and at least one of their POE switches - giving me a single pane of glass to manage and monitor my home network.
544236
I've had this D-Link DWL-G710 for almost a year and it's performed just as I'd hoped.  Before this, I'd tried several antenna solutions but none worked to any satisfaction (only barely noticeable improvement).

With the D-Link Range Extender, though, there are no more wi-fi "dead spots" in my 2-story home.  I went from about 30% coverage to 100%+ coverage.

After experimenting with several locations, I ended up having the main wireless router in an upper corner office/bedroom and the D-Link extender in an upper bedroom at the opposite end of the house.  The signals extend downward very well, so there's "5 bars" all over the place and out to the front and back yards.

With that, the unit was frustrating to set up.  The included documentation is very general and sparse on detail.  I owe success to browsing through all of the comments here for some great direction.  Without it, I likely would have given up and returned the unit.  As it is, I'm glad I kept it because it does perform very well.  It's the poor documentation that detracted a star from my review.

In sum:  A very well-performing wireless range extender that can be confusing to many to set up.  Worth the effort, though.
3472032
Overall this is a very good router and seems to have decent coverage through out my entire house. The setup time was as advertised quick and easy. I have it setup in my basement and I get strong signal on the main level of my house. I have a few minor complaints. I have not had the time to sit down and explore it extensively but it seems there are some functions of the router you can only do from the touch screen and others can be done in both the Web GUI and the touch screen. I would love to see full control of all networking functions from the Web GUI. Secondly I feel the mobile app needs to be improved some more. Its nice to be able to restart the router from my phone but I would also like to see a detail of the connected devices. Once again these are minor gripes on an otherwise outstanding product that seems well built and conceived. Looking forward to future improvements and features. I would definitely recommend to friends.
1575513
I got this for only $59.99, while Amazon had it on backorder, so the deep discount was certainly worth a couple weeks of extra wait time. I had been using a Netgear WNDR3700 v1 (dual band) but the best throughput I got with it in my living room (30ft and couple of walls away) was with the 2.4GHz band, getting 30-35Mbps (measured with iperf between 2 computers, one on wifi, the other on my LAN). The 5GHz band would give me high speeds (over 100Mbps) only in the same room, and few feet from the router. So I decided that 2.4GHz will work best for my situation, and got the Buffalo WZR-HP-G450H based on reviews saying that it has high throughput at long range. The reviews were right, I got 60Mbps at the same spot in my living room that other routers I tried gave me no more than 35Mbps. I did my tests using a Macbook Air 13, which can only establish a 150Mbps link (20MHz channel width) in the 2.4GHz band, by the way.

DD-WRT seemed ok, but I noticed that the filesystem was not writeable, and you had to create a /jffs space and mount directories from it manually to override parts of the regular filesystem to do interesting stuff; some good instructions are here: howtogeek.com/98408/how-to-install-additional-software-on-your-router-dd-wrt/

That seemed rather restrictive to me, so I put openwrt (12.09-rc1 with squashfs from downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09-rc1/ar71xx/generic/) on this router, which allows me to easily modify files and left me with a whopping 30MB of free space (an order of magnitude more than the WNDR3700 did by the way) to install packages, so I installed tcpdump, iperf, igmpproxy, fdisk, sdparm, and some scripts that toggle wifi on and off on the router when I press the AOSS button, so I can easily turn it off at night.

This webpage was great help: wiki.openwrt.org/toh/buffalo/wzr-hp-g450h
since it explains the hoops you have to go through to install OpenWRT the first time on this router, ie set your IP address to 192.168.11.2 and a static arp entry for 192.168.11.1 to 02:aa:bb:cc:dd:23, and tftp the image during a 4-second window after boot... All this was harder to deal with than the WNDR3700, but not enough to warrant subtracting a star from my review.

The big antennas of the router seem to help it not only transmit, but also receive weak signals from remote clients. This is an often overlooked but crucial aspect of wifi, not only is it important to get a good signal from the router, but your laptop/tablet/device needs to be able to send good signals back to the router, and often these devices are weak, so having a sensitive router is very important and makes a big difference especially in upload speeds.

The WZR-HP-G450H router is definitely a keeper for me. I don't make use of the 450Mbps link capability, but at 150Mbps (which most client devices support anyway) it performs far better than any other router I have tried.
1179007
I purchased this extender device as a replacement for my Netgear WN2000RPT that was being paired with an old Belkin N300 Surf F7D2301 v1 Wireless N Router.  I have since upgraded to 802.11 AC with my new D-LINK Dir-850L 1200mbps router and this Netgear AC extender device is working in tandem with it.  Overall, I just haven't been pleased with the speed and wireless coverage in my home and having to use 2 devices to extend coverage to hard to reach areas is kinda annoying to me.  I wish I could just set up one router in the cubby under my desk and be done with it.

I rate this product 3 stars because without it I would not have good coverage in my living room where I watch TV and use my iPad 2.  I think wireless technologies are still in their infancy and there needs to be an affordable permanent solution to getting powerful WiFi signals into large 5,000 square foot homes with zero dead zones.  I also don't like the fact that this device is obtrusive and takes up one of my outlets.

I purchased the device for $89.99 at OfficeMax so it was reasonably priced for what it does.
2319562
I got the Netgear WGT624 after lots of problems with a wired Linksys cable modem/router combo unit.  It installed easily, it is compact, and has a nice setup web page.  The feature set is quite complete for a router of this price point, and the wireless system works reasonably well.  The wireless is fast, but the range is quite limited.  I have a very small 2 bedroom condo, and the wireless doesn't work on the opposite side of the unit.  Also, it seems that the router requires to be rebooted every few days.

Overall, it's a good product, and I recommend it.
2391462
I use this at 720P 2 floors up from my MIMO G router and it works pretty well with the exception of live HD video.  Navigating the media center interface is not as fluid as when the PC is connected directly to the TV, and it takes a long time to update my large library everytime I turn it on.  I think the dual band Linksys wireless N router would help here (a $250 upgrade).

A big disappointment is lack of DIVX support, but a free download called Nic's FourCC changer will adjust your DIVX files to appear to the extender as XVID, which it does support.  In the end, this was not a showstopper for me.

You cannot play ripped DVDs with this product, which is another missed opportunity for Linksys and Microsoft.  My extender does not work with the MCE 2005 keyboard, but does work with my HP MCE remote, which is superior to the remote included here.

This extender is small, silent and light.  It lacks a remote dongle, which would be very useful for keeping the box out of sight, particularly in wall install scenarios.

I've wanted a product like this for a long time, and although it is far from perfect, I probably will keep it since at the moment there's nothing else available in this product category.  I'd recommend it, although not at a $299 MSRP given the limitations I've pointed out.

Unless you are into the digital home as a hobby, it may be worth waiting for feature improvements, price drops, and competitive product introductions (such as the forthcoming D-Link box).
4499235
The dir825 product is very good once up and running, with good speed and coverage and seems pretty solid. It is effectively two wifi devices in one, one on 802.11a/n, one on 802.11b/g/n, so you can get all your laptops which do 11a onto the 5GHz band freeing up 2.4GHz for handheld devices.

It is a little bit complex to configure to get the best out of it, but mainly all you need to do is set the WPA pass phrases on the wifi and the admin password for the router itself.

One downside is that if you want to set static routes, you can only do so for the outbound/WAN interface, and not for the LAN. I encountered this in a small office where there was a VPN appliance on the LAN, and I needed to remotely admin the DIR825. Dlink said that if you want full control of static routes then you should buy the professional/corporate models. However, I discovered via a forum that it was possible to use firefox with the firebug extension and change the web page on the DIR825 so as to make the route's interface change to LAN.

If it weren't for the routing issue, I'd give this five stars, as this is a good price for a simultaneous dual-band model.
2931057
I live in a highrise appartment building in New York City and have had significant problems with this wireless setup on the 802.11b standard.  I disabled the WEP Security hoping that it would help performance, however; I keep getting disconnected from the access poing every 20 minutes on average.  I also get dropped every time I answer my phone 2.4ghz phone.  The problem is not so much with Linksys, the product does work as advertised, but with the overcrowding of the 2.4ghz band.  The FCC allows manufactures to produce many types of products in the 2.44ghz range (802.11b).
I plan on returning my unit and see if I have better luck with the Linksys WAP54A which runs at exclusive 5 GHZ bandwith.
Overall, I will say that the product does work as expected, once you update the firmware to the latest version.
3739664
I bought this access point to provide wireless coverage to a 2 story colonial house.  Even with a Netgear ANT24D18 Ant 18DBI Patch Panel attached, it provided less coverage than what I was using before, a Netgear WPN802 v1.
  What I am using now is this WG302 w/ ANT24D18 patch panel as the access point, and the WPN802 as a repeater.  This is working well.
4215878
Want to add wireless network to your computer? Have a bad wireless connection? You should consider getting this. This gives you speeds up to 300Mbps Download and 300Mbps Upload. It supports the following wireless protocols: 802.11b,802.11g,and 802.11n . Sadly, this thing doesn't support 5ghz. Instead it only seems to support 2.4ghz. You won't see as much networks with this because of this and that it doesn't support a lot of wireless protocols.  It comes with a software CD that installs a REALTEK Wireless LAN Utility. That software gives you information about your network as well as some control functionality. Testing the speed of this, I got speeds of 59.07Mbps Download and 6.07Mbps Upload with a Ping of 12MS. That's pretty much the best I usually get with a wired ethernet adapter. The connection is not as steady as wired of course since wireless connections always usually have that slightly drop in quality. Overall, I would recommend this product because it gives you wireless functionality and it works great.

Pros:
 - Small size.
 - Wireless N. Offers speeds of up to 300Mbps Download/Upload.
 - Software CD. Always fun to see what software comes with products.
 - LED indicator letting you know the adapter is on.

Cons:
 - No instructions. That's pretty important. Some people can have trouble installing things like this. They might need to refer to the instructions.
 - Does not support 5ghz. Should have said in product descriptions it only supports 2.4ghz.

**I received this product for a discount in exchange for my honest and unbiased review**
3247459
Works fine, setup was easy. Range isn't what I expected but it is good for the price
2328921
I like this product and continue to use it after I discovered that it interferes with WiFi on certain channels. I have confirmed this with a spectrum analyzer (Wi-Spy). Please consider this when installing the product. You may need to reconfigure the WiFi channel to 1, 6, or 11 depending on the interference experienced and your neighbor's WiFi access points.

Sound quality is excellent. Very easy to install. I like it so much I am keeping it.