NETGEAR WiFi Mesh Range Extender (EX6250) - Covers up to 1,500 sq.ft. and 25 Devices with AC1750 Dual Band Wireless Signal Booster & Repeater (up to 1750 Mbps Speed), Plus Mesh Smart Roaming

NETGEAR WiFi Mesh Range Extender EX6250Price as of 11/11/2020List Price: 119.99Discount Price I paid: $89.00_______________________________2.4Ghz is slower speed wifi but the signal travels farther5Ghz is faster speed wifi but the signal doesn't travel as far_______________________________My Goal:Extend my verizon fios router wifi signal for both 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz to my entire NYC apartment.(Large apartment with many bedrooms, many walls, some of those walls are concrete)My Verison fios wifi router is on one end of my apartment and i need to boost the signal from that to the other end of the apartment._______________________________Currently:I have a Linksys wifi extender i bought years ago but it's too weak to boost both 2.4ghz & 5ghz to the other side of my apartment, it's not strong enough to penetrate all the walls.All the walls in my apartment eat up the wifi signal._______________________________New Setup:With this new Netgear wifi extender, i was able to remove my older wifi extender and i plugged this new Netgear wifi extender into an outlet on the other end of the apartment and now i get FULL BARS for both 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz in the ENTIRE apartment!_______________________________The Netgear status shows me the signal strength the extender is picking up:2.4Ghz signal strength: 162Mbps5Ghz signal strength: 585Mbps_______________________________INSTALLATION (setup):(It comes with a paper instructions booklet plus the instructions are online)Google: EX6250The instructions are on the Netgear website.Very basic simple instructions.Connect to the netgear extender using a device that has wifi (i used a windows 10 PC), connect it to the netgear wifi extender and then in your web browser go enter this URL address:http://192.168.1.250(You should be able to do this same thing on a mobile phone or tablet)That will take you to the Netgear admin page where you can follow the steps to configure your device._______________________________Additional options:There is an ethernet port on the device if you want to hardwire an ethernet cable to the wifi extender to configure the admin settings and as another way to connect the wifi extender to your network.Fastlane option. From what i read, that will boost your 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz signal. You have to turn this option on and then you need to pick which signal to boost. You can only do one. So have to pick 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz. So if you only need 5Ghz then you can use fastlane on the 5Ghz and the 2.4Ghz will be turned off. And now your 5Ghz will be faster.NOTE:I would not use the "fastlane" option because Amazon Alexa smart plugs use 2.4Ghz. They won't work with 5Ghz unless you can find ones that do.There is a 1 button quick setup. (WPS) but i don't use that. That basically lets you configure your home router so that if you press the WPS button on two devices (router and wifi extender). They will quickly sync together (quick setup) but you need to have that WPS option on your home router for it to work and that option needs to be enabled to allow it.NOTE:I don't use that because that will also allow anyone to walk over to your router and connect themselves to your network without needing any passwords. (bad security)Access point option. I don't plan to use that option. The wifi extender has a ethernet port on it, for the access point to work you need to use an ethernet cable and connect your router and this wifi extender together. I'm not 100% sure what the access point would be good for because the wifi extender option works really well. It's all you really need.I don't know much about how that access point would work or how you should or could use it so i wont comment much on that.In the end i ended up using the Ethernet port on the WIFI Extender to connect an ethernet cable from the WIFI Extender to my Roku.Another good option, buy a small 8 or less port Ethernet Hub. Connect an Ethernet cable from the WIFI extender into the Hub. Now you can connect devices with an Ethernet cable (laptop, ethernet printer, etc), directly to the WIFI extender (assuming you need / want a wired connection)The only reason to do this? Possibly a more stable internet connection? If all else fails. Try that._______________________________CONCLUSION:This Netgear wifi extender is POWERFUL while being very compact. No external antennas required. Looks very clean when installed into a wall outlet. If you install at the top outlet, the bottom outlet will NOT be blocked.I highly recommend buying it. A little pricey but it works well! Now it may be overkill if your apartment is very tiny. But if you have a ton of bedrooms with lots of walls & weak wifi signal. This should easily fix it.If you have a big home especially with a big backyard and you currently have a weak signal. This might also be useful to cover a huge range and get wifi across your whole home and yard.BUT check the specs first. The specs show the range it covers. It looks like you can connect two of these wifi extenders together if you need a bigger range but start with only 1 because it works so well you might only need 1.

Works very well and extended coverage. Was getting 20mbs upstairs (router in the basement). Now getting 140mbs.

I bought a Netgear EX6250 in a brick-and-mortar store about four months ago and my experience with it has been good overall...though not without its complications. Past experience with late-model Netgear products can be helpful in getting this unit set up and operating as the process is not always straightforward. It took me (who has a lot of experience with Netgear products and home networking in general) rather a few tries to get onto the right track in the Nighthawk app to set the thing up - you can run into roadblocks due to aspects of the Nighthawk app's design being less than intuitive (I know I did). I can't remember specifics now...so you know what I'm going to do? Out of lovingfriendliness for my fellow Amazon customers, I'm going to reset the extender to factory settings and set it back up, taking notes along the way, so that I can relate my experience more clearly and in greater detail.Okay, so:First you want to jump online and download the Netgear Nighthawk app to your phone. I don’t know if this unit can be set up without it.Next, plug the extender into power - somewhere where it’s in range of your router. After you first plug the unit in, or after resetting it using the little recessed paperclip button on the side, the power LED will glow orange for rather a long time - two to three minutes in my experience - before finally turning green. Green means “go” - but orange doesn’t. So you just have to wait until that light turns green in order to be able to proceed with the setup process. Good opportunity to focus on the breath. And the fact that patience is a virtue.Once the power indicator turns green, launch the Nighthawk app and check the little circle confirming that you accept Netgear’s terms and conditions and that you’ve read their privacy policy…even though you probably haven’t. Then tap “I Agree”.On an iPhone, at least, the next screen says that iOS requires that you enable local network access in order to be able to set up your extender (which at this point the Nighthawk app is calling a “router” because it doesn’t yet know any better - you haven’t yet told it what you want to set up). Obviously, since you want to set up your extender, you’re going to okay that local network access. Tap “Continue” and your phone will ask you if you want to allow the app to find and connect to devices on your local network. Tap “OK”.The next screen asks you to allow push notifications. This one’s up to you. I think I’ve always allowed them and I haven’t seen one yet, let alone been annoyed by excessive/unwanted notifications that are, in the end, just trying to sell me crap or otherwise waste my time.The next screen tells you Netgear needs access to your device’s location services to automatically connect to your wifi network. I always allow this.Next you’re told you have to create a new Netgear account or log into an existing one. Do that.Then you’ll be asked if you want to enable Face ID and you’ll also be asked…something else I forget because I just blazed past it, momentarily forgetting that I was writing this detailed description of the process. But…y’know. You can read (because you’re reading this), so…tap the things on your screen that accord with your wishes. :)At last we come to a screen that says, “Let’s set up your Nighthawk”, and tells you what to do if the unit’s been set up before. I don’t think I’ve ever had any luck using the “been set up before” option, so I always reset the extender to factory settings (by pressing and holding the paperclip/pen-point button on the side of the unit until the power light blinks orange) when I have a problem with the connection (which I seldom do, and when I do it’s usually because the power’s blinked or something else explicit has happened to make me need to set the extender up again). If this is your first time setting it up, tap “Set up a Nighthawk”. Even though I don’t think this extender is technically a Nighthawk. Doesn’t matter - you can still set it up with this app.Next you’re shown a rundown of what’s going to happen. Read that as you’re inclined, then tap “Get Started!”.On the product selection screen that comes up next, tap “Range Extender”.The app tells you where to plug in your extender. Follow its instructions and tap “Next”.The next screen just tells you to actually plug it in now, and wait (…and wait…and wait…) for a solid (green) power LED. Do that, and when you’ve got the solid green power light, tap “Next”.On the next screen, the app will ask you to let it join your extender’s network. Tap “OK”, and wait while your phone connects to your extender. When it does, the screen will change to display “Great, we found your extender”. Tap “Next”.Tap “Next” on the next screen as well.Now your phone will look for your router’s network (which is your pre-existing wifi network, the one you want to extend). I think what it’s doing now is acting as a liaison between your router and the extender - introducing them to one another, as it were. Because what happens next is that your extender looks for and - ideally - connects to your wifi network. (When you’re asked to allow…something…to join your network, tap “Join”.)And if all has gone well, that’s pretty much it. You’ll see a screen that says you’re up and running, and…there it is: you’re up and running!Obviously, all of that is how things are *supposed* to go. If they go otherwise…you’ll probably need to be able to apply a searing laser beam of logic to the process and figure out how to make it work (that’s been my personal approach and, lucky for me, it’s always worked so far), or else to contact the dread Netgear Support People. I hope for your sake the laser beam works.Good luck and enjoy!