Linksys Velop Mesh Home WiFi System, 1,500 Sq. ft Coverage, 10+ Devices, Speeds up to (AC1300) 1.3Gbps - WHW0101

Works great always has a good signal

Originally I had this product set up as wifi connection to my main wifi 6 node. And that wasn't great. It didn't work for certain things (like the nintendo switch. But largely the NS has a horrible wifi reception in general. So that's kind of on the NS).I thought at first, well, I can just plug this into my ethernet in the secondary location and that should be better projection. But somehow doing this (or maybe it was coincidence) crashed my original router. I was so close to returning these products and buying another one from somewhere else. But tech support came through and really helped me out. I still don't know what caused the 'crash' that required me to reset the entire router/network system. But it's working now and I'm very thankful for their support.Turns out the device IS smart enough to know when it should act as a node when connected to ethernet or when to use wifi. And now it's working as it should. I did not see this mentioned anywhere, but I honestly didn't look as hard as I could have. One thought if you are connecting this as an ethernet node: First, make sure you connect it using the app with wifi (just follow instructions in the app when setting up a child node). Next disconnect it, move to the hardwired location you want to use, plug the ethernet in FIRST and THEN the power. This is the only thing I did different that caused my initial crash. Again, maybe a fluke, maybe coincidence. But I'm just glad it's working now.Bonus that this works with a newer mesh router (wifi 6 enabled). Obviously this device won't support wifi 6, but it's nice not to spend more than you need to.

The thing works as advertised; extends the coverage of my mesh router. I'm happy with the coverage I now get in the Man Cave which is about 60 feet away. I would have given 5 stars except for the confusing setup procedure. Lucky for ne I got a great tech via Linksys chat that walked me through the easy 4 step setup process. Too bad Linksys can't just print out the steps needed to hook this up.

Exceptionally easy to add as a node. It fired right up and installed quickly. No issues at all.

Awesome product!!! Router and node are super!!!

I set up a mesh system consisting of three of these. Over the span of 18 months two of the nodes have bricked themselves. The process of convincing customer service it is bricked and pre-paying for a replacement is a pain. In addition the nodes would randomly go offline and require a reboot and when moving about the house the mesh system would not automatically load balance by transferring tablets and phones to the nearest node, this was especially problematic when the entire system required a reboot because the parent node would come online first and EVERY item in the household would connect to that node and never rebalance to closer nodes that came online later. Would not recommend this product or any mesh system from LinkSys as a result.

before i bought this on i was using the powerline adapter and it crap. my ISP was 300M up/down but i only got 20 downloadand 12 up and it cost way more than this device. now i switch to this device to use the speed is up to 50% of mine ISP that i have.

Our baby node was malfunctioning. I ordered this and then a Linksys tech support person spent about 45 minutes patiently walking me through the set up process. The new node works perfectly.Linksys is a wonderful company!