TP-Link EAP653 True WiFi 6 Access Point, AX3000 Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Access Points, Omada Mesh, Support Passive PoE+ Powered or DC, Seamless Roaming Extended Range, Centralized Cloud Management

I had been using a booster in an up stairs bedroom and then another 20m down the garden in the shed to reach 45m down to the very bottom with the purpose of getting wifi to a solar powered ip camera, the camera is working better than before probably due to a better signal and less connections.I get full signal on 5g on my phone and the same speed test results 45m down the garden as i get direct from my router in the same room, with the booster setup the speed was poor and the connection was unreliable.The set up is so easy and worked straight away without any issues.

Extended my range across my garden, works flawlessly with my internal AP to provide instant handover between the two. Connection is stable, device is small, currently mounted in my garage but eventually will be moved external.

This thing is amazing. Wired it up to our booster hub and put on back of house. We have a long narrow garden that goes down a hill… was not hopeful that it would work, but it did. 70mbps in the house and the same 150m away. We now have a nature camera looking into trees on WiFi. Only slight negative is the setup… ditch the app and use the website… once on that quick and easy. Highly recommend.

Positives:- Provides decent signal in the garden. Around 500mbps download speeds next to the AP (which is attached to the outside of the house) and around 200mbps (on the 5ghz network) at the very end of the garden (and it’s a very long garden). It would probably improve if I mounted it higher as the garage is blocking the signal slightly.- Does support band steering so you can combine both the 2.4 and 5ghz SSID’s (this does of course require you to know what band steering does, it’s not obvious from the UI).Negatives:- Doesn’t have a repeater function (which would have made installation options much more versatile) so you do need to run a cable back to the router.- It does support Mesh networking but only with other TP-Link EAP devices (won’t mesh with other manufacturers AP’s) and you need a separate controller in order to configure this (either software or hardware).Update:I’ve now mounted the access point higher up and more centrally in the garden. The signal is more stable and has better coverage than when it was near the house but the signal seems to be easily blocked by buildings and trees which isn’t great when it’s meant to be used outside.Another update:I’ve finally relented and purchased another one to use in mesh mode as the signal at the very end of the garden wasn’t good enough with just the one. I’ve installed it on a fence post at the very end of the garden but still in line of sight of the existing one so as to avoid the signal getting blocked by trees. Luckily, the shed has power going to it so I was able to power it from there. So far, I have been impressed by the resulting coverage; I’m now getting a very good signal all over the garden. I was also impressed by the Omada controller software; it was easy and straightforward to configure (I didn’t even need to follow any instructions) and it adopted both the access point without issue and even allowed me to update the firmware. You don’t need to have the software running all the time either (if you don’t want to constantly monitor the network) so you don’t necessarily need a dedicated PC running 24/7 or the hardware controller.

I’ve tried way too many routers and wireless access points to improve on my BT home hub 2 and all have been a failure and not lived up to the hype of the advertising resulting in poor network reach and speed. I finally gave this one a go. Turned off my home hub 2 Wi-Fi but kept the router and plugged this in via Ethernet. Very easy to set up and configure. It has 8 internal aerials and runs at a good output. I now have great Wi-Fi coverage across the house on 2 floors running 2.4ghz on n-only I get 600mbps. No need to turn on the 5ghz and no need to turn in the Wi-Fi 6 as I don’t need it yet. Been running faultlessly with no drop outs and with the capacity to run hundreds of clients it copes seamlessly with the 30 or so devices in the house. Be careful which you buy - the 660hd has the best aerial configuration even compared to higher Tp link models. You can check out the full specs on the TP Link website. I’m happy with this. No more rumblings from the family about the Wi-Fi - it just works.

This needs some tuning of the main router in order to link clients. When I setup this there was no client linked. The reason for this the main router stills connected with those clients and the connecton range was up to -75 dBm. If any clients are withing this signal range then those are not linked to the AP. I increased the range in the main router to - 65 dBm. After this all the clients with signal lower than -65 dBm connected with this AP. This essentially needs some tuning in order to distribute the clients to different access point nodes. My main router is Ausus XT8 and this already has two nodes in two different locations in the house. The TP-Link Access Point is installed in the house extension where the signal is poor. I have a PoE switch in the extension which made my job easy to install this AP.