TP-Link Managed Network Switch 8-Port Gigabit, Support QoS VLAN IGMP Snooping, Network Monitoring through Web Interface, 3.68 W(TL-SG108E), Black

Excellent WiFi extender from TP-Link.This is a self contained WiFi repeater/extender that works flawlessly. It's my first piece of TP-Link network gear and after a little research, this seemed to be one of the items I kept coming back to.It's a plain white box with 4 LED indicators along the bottom showing power, link status and which of the WiFi signals is currently connected and being forwarded from this device ( 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz )After reading the large instruction sheet, it seemed pretty straighforward and it was. I opted to use the Android app. called ' Tether '. After creating a Login & Password, it's as easy as following the on-screen prompts on your phone. As long as you have the router password and know the SSID you're golden. I was up and running with a phone and a tablet out in the back garden, a long way from the router wifi source with a decently strong signal.It's way stronger and faster than the previous Netgear repeater, by no less than six times faster and a full strong signal strength.I've been using it all afternoon since setting it up and have no issues at all.It is very unobtrusive and has no external antenna like the outgoing Netgear model which is a big plus, it's very lightweight and runs fairly cool. There's a little heat when under load, but barely noticeable and nothing to be concerned with. The LEDs are plain warm white when all is working well, and may change to red if there's an issue. It appears to be a fit and forget device which I appreciate.Overall, I'm extremely impressed with my first TP-Link device and really is great value for money.

This is a great low cost switch. I had to rebuild my editing and post production studio. You can imagine the amount of network cables running about. I originally bought the 'unmanaged version" because it was cheaper but found when using multiple ethernet items some of them slowed.I switched it for this mamanged one and instantly saw an improvement. I knoiw have 5 running the studio machines, wifi, computers, speakers, recorders, printers, scanners blah blah. What i love about these switches is that if i have a slow old printer on the network or a slow old computer ... it compensates and just send signal at the speed it needs 10/100 or 1000Mbps. Thanks to these switches i have the fibre broadband in 4 rooms and they all run now at full speed ... even if we are all using at the same time. Lastly, I had a friend who is a technophobe ! He had wires and splitters all over the place from his router to run his heating, Sky, TV, Amazon Cube, Computer, Wifi, Streamer, etc. A real mess. I bought him one of these and he stripped all the wiring out. Had just one cable from his router to this switch and then plugged all the items into this switch. Everything now all run at full speed. No setting up. Straight out of the box ... plugged it in ... plugged the ethernet cables in bingo bango all up and running. Fantastic bit of kit for the price.

OK, I live in a modern build town house, when we moved in 10 years ago we had BT broadband (router is middle floor front) and had a dead zone in the ground floor (rear) conservatory & garden, I bought a Netgear extender to deal with the issue.Eight years later (Sep 2018) time to upgrade the tech and I bought a TP-Link RE200 V2, the 5GHz between the extender and the router was a little unstable but we could stream, make video calls, no issues. I then changed to Sky broadband and developed a second dead zone in the top floor rear bedroom (the most important room in the house, the daughters and a teenager with bad internet!) so I purchased a second RE200 V2 (Nov 2018, which was when the last firmware update for the V2 was released), All good.Nearly two years on, the connection on the ground floor extender was getting less stable and the speeds very slow, there had been changes to the house, in particular a recent upgrade on the house intruder alarm and the control panel with the sim card which had been on the top floor front had been relocated to the ground hall between the ground floor extender and the router which I think may have had a slight effect on the network. The top floor was still functioning perfectly. I am also starting to move to smart home tech, so wanted a stable link for these products.Anyway time to upgrade the tech again, yes finally we get to the product under review, so having been happy with the TP-Link products, I purchased a RE300 (AC1200). I set it up via the app and gave it the same SSID (3 APs, 3 SSIDs) and password as the one being replaced so no devices would need to be updated to connect. We have always connected manually from our phones to each access point so we know which one we are on, to get the best connection depending where we are in the house. Although the RE300 has Mesh tech to eradicate this problem, yes of course the Sky router does not support this tech, so manual selection was the way to keep going.I set the RE300 from the app and all went well, at least for a short period when my phone lost connection and said it was "unable to obtain an IP address". I rebooted the extender and it reconnected, a short time later the same thing. I work with security systems so I am use to remoting directly into devices and although I had never tried it with one of these extenders, I got the IP address from my router and gave it a go, success a much more comprehensive menu than the app. I applied DST, so the devise had the correct time and set a static IP address on the extender and assigned it on my router.Fantastic problem solve, no more "unable to obtain IP address" but now after a period "connected without internet". As I said earlier I'm starting to install smart home devises and these only use single band 2.4GHz so I tried using the high speed setting Router 5GHz-Extender-2.4GHz-Device but found speeds on a mobile extremely slow. It was at this point I turned to the internet and found this to be a common problem but no fixes available.Anyway over the last week, I have tried the extender in different locations and different settings, the most stable I found was by disabling the "Connect to 2.4GHz Network" in the Wireless-Connect to Network settings and leaving the dual band active between the extender and devises, but as you will see from the System Log image I'm still getting the DHCP errors which are causing the issue.The ironic thing is, that having learnt so much about the settings, I revisited the old RE200 and comparing it to the top floor one noticed it had an old version of the firmware, I've updated this and it is now stable and giving fantastic speeds!It's time to admit defeat and return the RE300 but I cannot give it a bad review as when it is running I get excellent coverage and high speeds, I just have compatibility issues which hopefully a future firmware update from TP-Link will resolve, so when it's time to update the tech again, I will be looking at these.

This simple to use WiFi signal extender. We already have the all singing and dancing model which is as simple to setup via the tethering app. We live in a very old cottage with walls designed to keep invaders out, but that also applies to beaming a WiFi signal to all parts of the property. We now have 100% coverage throughout the property. Setup is straightforward using the tethering app and takes a few minutes to get connected. Brilliant piece of equipment.