I want to purchase a device that will connect to WiFi and provide an ethernet socket for providing ethernet connectivity. I’m thinking of either the Netgear EX6410 or the EX6120.
Are either of these good options and if not what might a good alternative be?
dap-x1860 ?
all routers running openwrt can do this.
+1 for the dap-x1860. Nice and small range extender with proper OpenWrt support and WiFi 6/AX.
Looks appealing:
But EU socket though? That’s frustrating.
official D-Link store, should be returnable ?
Was looking at the D-Link UK store, also there only EU plug on the DAP=X1860. That's kind of weird.....
Edit: I assumed an UK plug is needed because of the amazon.co.uk link above...
It could be a UK plug - it’s just a bit unknown. Pics show EU plug and I saw something about it coming from Spain.
Any alternatives?
is it legal to sell devices without UK plug in UK ?
Not sure actually.
I'd guess they didn't have any UK device during creation of the page, that's why it's an EU photo.
Really good WiFi capability would be a huge bonus since it’d avoid me having to poke an ethernet cable through this:
Namely I could leverage the weak WiFi signal in the adjacent boiler room (this is just to allow me to connect boiler for app control).
If you want something extremely cheap the Pix-Link LV-UE01 might fit the bill.
No OpenWRT though.
Would you expect this device to have good WiFi connectivity and beat the Netgear alternatives?
AX vs AC, to start with.
that's very incomplete, try "repeater" too.
You're right, however I just checked, there are no Repeaters in the table view I shared.
Should go for the full ToH and then filter on WiFi AX and 'range extender' and/or 'repeater'
Edit: Hmmm, in the full ToH view also no 'Repeater', can it be they've all been renamed to 'range extender' ?
But this put me off immediately:
Please try Chrome or Microsoft Edge for the upload
Then I noticed it is an MT7621, so a very old low performance SoC (that must be fast approaching EOL) that has a MT7915 wifi6 chip spliced onto it. Can the SoC even keep up with the wireless?
This is particularly important in a wireless extender...
I'm sure it will work, but will it be performant?
Yes it is only two thirds the price of a Filogic based equivalent device and if every penny counts and if performance is not so important then maybe... Or is the jumbo wall wart format more important than anything?
if you're fine with AC, check TP-Link RE450 and RE650 too, they're cheap on UK eBay.
I've been using it as an Travel Router. It worked fine for that purpose, but I was not stretching it in terms of wifi load or multiple users.
So @Lynx should think of the use case in terms of performance needed.
