NETGEAR WN3000RP-200UKS 300 Mbps Universal Wi-Fi Range Extender (Wi-Fi Booster) with Smart LED Indicators for High Wi-Fi Coverage, White

We live in a typical 1930-built 3-bed semi-detached. Our Virginmedia superhub is located upstairs at the front. The signal is OK in the front downstairs room but then fades down to 1 or 2 in the back room and is lost at the end of our extension kitchen at the back.Setup of this wifi extender is very straightforward. Anything I setup tends to encounter unusual problems or doesn't work properly, but I had no problem with this. As recommended in the instruction booklet I plugged the extender into a socket very near the superhub, about 3 feet. I think that as long as it is in line of sight it is OK. I then pressed the WPS button on the extender (it is marked) and then the WPS swith on the superhub (it's the bright blue illuminated button at the front showing the Virginmedia logo). After a few moments lights began to flash on the extender and then stayed on showing (a) the power was OK (b) the WPS protocol had been established with the superhub, and (c) on the front of the extender a green light, top left, showing it was getting an excellent signal from the hub. On the hub itself there was a sort of blue-red light but after a while it went back to its usual colour - it didn't affect any of the setup.I then switched on my laptop and looked up available networks. The extender appeared as a separate entry. It had the same name as the superhub plus .EXT on the end. I just selected that one, checked it out with a web browser and it worked fine. This confirmed that the extender was working as it should. Looking at the extender it now also showed a constant green light top right indicating that my laptop was connected OK.Next stage was to unplug the extender and move it downstairs to see how it would improve wifi coverage there. I didn't turn it off, I just unplugged it. When I plugged it in again it took about a minute (or maybe less) to reconnect with the superhub.I tried it in the downstairs front room and it got a green signal from the router i.e. good. Using my phone I checked coverage by switching its wifi to the extender (it uses the same password as the superhub) and then walking around. The signal in my phone was good (3 to 4, with 4 being max) in the back room and better than before in the kitchen. I moved the extender to the back room and it showed a red (poor) signal from the 'superhub' - the wifi signal from the Virginmedia kit seems to tail off quite dramatically. Ours is a brick-built semi and the router is located just inside the upstairs front window so that may be the reason.Despite indicating a poor signal in the back room my phone showed that the wifi signal was now maximum, and it was much improved in the kitchen. The main reason why we wanted better coverage in the downstairs back was for our phones, kindle, laptop and chromecast. Initially, when the extender was in the front downstairs room the chromecast dongle seemed to struggle a bit to stream BBC iPlayer and YouTube to our TV. Casting the internet via Chrome on my laptop was also slow.However, once I moved the extender to the back room the signal was significantly better and the Chromecast dongle's streaming is now only limited by the iPlayer's own bandwidth/prime time usage and we very occasionally get a brief pause while it buffers (usually about 9.30pm!). We recently stopped our cable TV service and have gone over to Freeview so the Chromecast now gives us a catch-up facility, at least for the BBC. We're not interested in paying for streaming movies etc. but if we did install Netflix or whatever I am confident that the signal for the back room TV would be fine due to this extender.[UPDATE 10/4/2015] The Extender continues to work well and we are satisfied with its performance. Getting the BBC iPlayer to work consistently is another matter. Wifi for the Chromecast widget is excellent and it will handle YouTube, Chrome etc. without a glitch, but iPlayer is still very twitchy at times and we have had to abandon watching a programme because it buffers every 9 seconds (very irritating). There have been two updates to iPlayer since we got the extender and I haven't tried it with the last one yet. As this is a very specific use of the wifi and the extender provides a good signal for kindle, phones, laptop etc. I still think it deserves 5 stars, whereas the BBC gets 2 for its iPlayer (also don't like the new layout).I've written this long review because I wanted to explain our experience with the extender and, I hope, answer questions that prospective purchasers may have. I've given it 5 stars because it does exactly what we want. I suspect our brick walls don't help, nor the placement of our superhub. Overall, I can reassure anyone thinking of buying this bit of kit that it is good value for money and is very straightforward to install, move about for best results, and then forget it while it does its job.

What a fantastic product. Buy it - install it as per Option 1 on the instructions and your drop-out from poor coverage are solved. Set-up takes 10 minutes maximum.However, to use Option 1 in the set-up you need to find the WPS button - all recent hubs/modems should have one of these. Don't try Option 2 unless you are VERY tech savvy.I have a Virgin Super Hub and after an hour of trying to find the WPS button on my Virgin Super hub I realised that the front blue Virgin Logo is actually the button !!!! Once I had found it I was away.This is copied from a 2012 post and explains very well what you have to do (it certainly helped me):The guides advice is to place the extender box in the centre of the house or certainly between your superhub and your other wifi using devices. Which is what I did.Once you've done that the guide gives you two options1. Connecting with WPS. This looks really simple but needs a button on the superhub (Which it does not appear to have)2. Connecting without WPS (using a browser) ...To cut a very long story short I spent hours trying to connect using option 2.(Find the wireless network you want to connect to) Wait. What's the passphrase? Wait. Cryptic messsage. Cryptic message. Cannot integrate extender into network Wait Cancel restore factory settings try again using laptop try again using Ipad / System cannot find that Path??? (Who writes this stuff? Venusians?) Tear hair out, find something soft to kick.Finally I looked through the reviews again and found someone who happened to mention in their review that the Virgin Superhub's WPS Switch is in fact the Virgin sign on the front of the Superhub!! Sounds of angels singing...So Option 1 is press the green button the front of the Net Gear extender box , walk slowly and with confidence to the Virgin Superhub (inside 2 minutes) and press the Virgin Media blue logo button on the front of the Superhub (hold it 'til it blinks) and you have just extended the coverage of your Wifi network!As an after note for Ipad users I did have to reset the network settings on our Ipad. Hit settings ==> General==> Scroll down to reset==> Reset network settings and then find the new extended network. Give it the passphrase for the network and life was all good, just a little bit faster , with less cursing and waving of Ipads.So hope this tip helps. Its a really great product and if you use the WPS set up (Option 1 ) its an absolute doddle.