D-Link DAP-1650

Hard to set up – changing my review, although this was not easy to set up, i called the dlink help line and they were really helpful. The signal boost from the extender is ok, not great, should do the job i think.

Easily setup. Strong signal – I set this up wireless extender as my WiFi modem is in one corner of the house and the signal gets weak in the other end of the house. I didn’t manage to setup via the one touch WPS method but was able to setup easily via the browser. I have plugged both the Xbox and the TV into the ports. I would recommend this unit.

Set-up and Configuration Issues – Selected this repeater as it has 4 ethernet ports, I'm using it in the office which is some distance from the service entry and wifi router at the front of the house. I prefer to have my non-roaming devices on cable, even though yes the 1650 is wifi back to router. Trouble with setup, could not connect via ethernet cable what-so-ever, tried 2… Read more

PC's. Eventually was able to connect to the 1650 via wifi (no internet to start though) and the default ssid, which then allowed admin access and setup including my own ssid's (one for each of 2.4G and 5G), passkeys, etc.

Once I completed setup, including being connected back to the base wifi router, and the internet, it seemed OK. But then the next day it lost its connection back to the router. I did another setup and the 1650 could not see the router at all after a scan, even though the office devices in the same location could (albeit with a low-medium signal). After concluding the problem was RF related, I suspected the 1650 might have been interfering with the wifi router and vice-versa, on the 2.4G band. So I used the admin login and changed the setup to specify 2.4G Channel 6, as opposed to 'auto -select'. That seems to have done the trick. 3 days and all OK.

So I would conclude that setup is not so easy, lots of monkeying around to connect to the 1650, then after that the reception on a weak 2.4G signal from the base wifi router is not great - you may have to force it to another channel and avoid potential interference issues on the same 2.4G band being used by the base router.

I've also read the USB 2.0 port isn't very modern, should be 3.0, but I won't be using that anyway. If you want a repeater with more than 1 ethernet port, it's hard to go past this as it has 4, and its cheap (paid $115). Tentatively would recommend, despite the difficulties. I'm connecting with cable for 2 PC's, and wifi for mobiles and tablets and a laptop. The Netgear NightHawk EX7000 might be a better choice (USB 3.0, 5 ports) but it's twice the money and I read you are forced to sign-up for support, may or may not be true.

Don't bother with the "No-help line" – It doesn't work, then when you ring the help line, they run you through the procedure, then hang up before you get it going. Ours is going back to the shop. Just don't waste your time!

Shonky. Does this really work!! – Not easy to set up. 3 times now I've been on the phone (45mins each time) to try set it up. All operators speak bad English and none have been unable to set up!! + they have each 'put me on hold for 2mins' = hung up on me! The roduct feels dodgy so unfortunately I have no other choice but to return it to the shop!

Ok but a lot of work to be done – Well our Optus wifi modem is absolutely useless on its own as its range seems to be around 5m, so dad went out to Officeworks to buy this D-Link wifi range extender. Brought it home, put it together and finally, after (literally) more than 3 hours on the phone to a D-Link customer support person who, although trying to be helpful, seemed to be… Read more

understandable in every other language but English, we managed to get a bit of progress. Another hour and a half after we had spoken to the D-Link bloke and we were finally able to use the thing properly.

It has now been a few weeks since we got it and it works ok, but only when I can connect to it. It keeps saying "the connection is limited" when I try to connect but then when I go back onto the main Networks page it says "connected" which normally means it is functioning properly. But when I go onto the network icon on my taskbar it says "no internet access"! No idea what to believe now, the network icon or the network page :/ but anyway eventually it does connect but it certainly takes a very long time. This is probably a one-off issue given the other 2 reviews for this product say it is pretty good, but I feel I should certainly put this out there just so if anyone else experiences any problems they can at least know it is a rare issue from what I can gather and that its not all of D-Link's products. In short, its a pain for my computer but my phone seems to connect to it easily enough.

An AC1200 bulky range extender that's basically the DSL-2890AL without the WAN port – While all of the features worked and worked pretty well on the unit, it's just too big for a range extender. It's probably better used as a VPN and adding a private network to your home/office. With 4 Gigabit ports, a USB2.0 (really should be USB 3.0 in this day and age) for media streaming, dual bands (300Mbps on 2.4GHz & 867Mbps on 5GHz) it's… Read more

got a lot of features. You could use it as an extender to a media centre where you have multiple Ethernet enabled devices (such as DVD player, media box, TV, Play Station, etc.) where you wouldn't want to run separate cables from the router. You'd have to have at least 2-3 devices to make the purchase worthwhile. However I find Wi-Fi is still fast enough these days for streaming and not needing Ethernet anymore.

Connection is a breeze, either by WPS or by logging in to the unit itself where you can manually change settings (as you can with most routers). The range isn't too bad (I was getting a decent signal extending dual bands through walls to about 8-10m) for the 2.4Ghz band and the through put was also quite fast and snappy on most apps. The 5GHz band was slower as the signal was a lot less at that distance. However I'm pretty sure you can speed the unit up by extending on one band (either 2.4 or 5GHz) and connecting on the opposite band. Interconnecting to different routers was easy enough as well (I connected it to a Netgear AC1200 router).

Streaming wasn't a problem and I'd imagine that setting it up with a USB hard drive you could stream content to multiple devices through the extender. This would be a good feature except for the fact that most routers these days already come with that feature and you'd already have that setup on your main router (unless you had multiple HHD's). I'd imagine that D-Link had a lot of older router PCB's and cases laying around of the older model to the DSL-2890AL so they've shipped these as an extender rather than a router.

The price is also pretty good for an AC1200 extender (around $129 if you shop around), however being that it's so bulky you're limited with where you can put the unit. I actually took mine back and exchanged for a much smaller unit (1/2 speed, 1/2 price, 1/4 size) as I bought on price and not on what I actually needed (didn't need Gigabit ports or USB). However, if you really need 4 Gigabit ports you couldn't go wrong with this unit.

Great Value For Money - Range Extender To Boost Wifi – We live in a remote rural part of Sydney and needed an extender to boost our wifi signal in our large two storey home. It works extremely well and we are very pleased with it. We purchased it on eBay for $100 it was excellent value. We will buy another to use upstairs too.