RP-AC56 11A/B/G/N/AC/ 2.4/5GHZ

RECOMMENDED Home Run!! This was sooo easy to set up We are getting wired speeds 60' from the router in a very crowded environment.We did however put this on a UPS power pack to protect it from summer lightning strikes and power outages just for good measure.Set it up in about 10 min and it is rock solid. For best results, do not use the DHCP instead go for the static IP address. We are using this as a wireless bridge with an ASUS AC router, and are getting speeds beyond what we were hoping for. It never drops the connection it is rock solid, with these speeds we have some future proofing built in.We paired it with the ASUS Dual-Band Wireless-AC3100 Gigabit Router (RT-AC88U) These two items are so well paired to each other that getting the max speeds was easy as pie. We did leave the old WIFI N-router in place to serve the older devices on the 2.4 band. This freed up the ASUS for 5Ghz service on AC band only with the newer standards, we turned off the 2.4 band.It seemed that serving older devices really pulled the speed to a crawl, so the kids, guests, IPADs and Smart phones get to use the older N-router. This really freed up our bandwidth and seems to make max use of our internet connection without interruptions. We have a VOIP, computer and printer hooked up to this as well as a media center, with no Lagg whatsoever. Did I mention this is set up 60' from the source router?Take a look at the speed test. Well worth the money. September 2016 UPDATE.. Flawless, and Stable!! Has not been offline since set up. I do have it on a UPS Power Pack in case of power outage, and am using Static IP so no issues there. We Live near large office complex, very crowded air space. NO ISSUES!!! Forget the negative reviews, they have not done the set up correctly. RECOMMENDEDThanks ASUSVOTE thumbs UP IF YOU FOUND THIS HELPFUL

UPDATE: This worked fine as a repeater (after we figured a few things out). But all of a sudden, after a month of working it just stopped allowing clients to connect. So it is now pretty much useless, and nothing so far has been able to resolve it. I wish Amazon's return window was longer.--------------original review ------------------I purchased this Asus AC1900 Repeater Range Extender to extend the wi-fi signal in our 4500 sq. foot house. Our main router (Asus RT68U) is at one end of the house on first floor. Signal to complete opposite end of house on 2nd floor is nearly non-existent, and the kids cell phones kept dropping off wi-fi causing us cellular data $! So I put the repeater on the 2nd floor, between the middle and end of the house, as there was nowhere closer to put it, and both signals do usually have 2-3 bars (more often 2 bars). This repeater does do the trick, for the most part. But after a few weeks, I noticed the 2.4 signal light was not lit. I looked into the menu, and it showed it disconnected from main router. The only thing that fixed this was unplugging the repeater then plugging it back in. I don't know how long it will be stable, and will have to keep an eye on it now. Ugh. I also noticed in my router's Client List that the IP address you give the repeater in setup (they only allow you to give it 1 static IP address which is assigned to both 2.4 and 5ghz channels) does not stay static on both channels. One channel seems to keep that address, while the other channel will arbitrarily change its IP address (even though it is not using DHCP)!!! This causes the repeater to sometimes have the same IP address as another device on our network. Once it took the IP address of my main router, and both router and extender were locked up, so I had to reboot both. Not good!! I hope there is a firmware update soon!Initial setup was not very difficult. I first set it up with the same SSIDs as my main router, but that wreaked havoc on both routers for some reason, with many dropped connections and errors galore in the system log (something about receiving packets with the same IP address as the source?). So I changed it to a different SSID, but made both 2.4 and 5ghz the same SSID. That worked a little better. But I also found that in order to have a constant connection, I had to turn off the feature that drops you if the signal gets too low (on BOTH repeater and main router). I did keep the SmartConnect feature turned on in the main router, though,and the beamforming turned on in both. Also, to get internet access to work from the repeater, I needed to enter the IP addresses of my internet provider's DNS servers on one of the menu screens. I didn't like that the repeater SSID is broadcast, and there is no checkbox to Hide it like there is in my Asus RT-68U router. However, this can be done (search Youtube videos) by using some Telnet commands. If you are not a technical person, I would not suggest trying this, but having decades in the IT industry, I felt comfortable enough to do this and it worked well. Another thing I did not like was that it does not have a MAC address filter like my main router does. But not as big a deal since we have the MAC filtering all set up in the router anyway. I like that you can touch the front and turn off those red lights, because they are pretty annoying. Anyway, although this does not work as smoothly as I'd like, the speeds are decent. And our phones do automatically connect to it when we go upstairs, and then reconnect back to the main router when back downstairs. I'm pretty sure that is a function of each particular phone/device, but it works with our Apple and our Android devices. For its functionality, I do think it's a bit overpriced, though.