Any suggestions for a wireless WiFi extender for the TP Link C1200 ?
Cannot get WiFi connection in one of my bedrooms.
I am in an apartments where the walls are thick.🙁

Remove the powerline from your network. It is very unreliable.

Yes, should be enough. But, I highly recommend the C2300 or the C3150.

Suggest you change router rather than use extender or powerline.

I guess u agree to this now?

Best to Worst
Ethernet cable > WIFI > Powerline

Time provided AC1200 router with 802.11ac as default configuration, why would anyone comparing 802.11n?
Are you ok?

Yeah removing the powerline setup soon, waiting for the flat cat7 cables from Ugreen to arrive

Once they arrive i'll run the flat cables and use double sided tape to put them on the wall, go under the door gap and then to my desktop. By around that time would need to sell of the powerline adapters HAHA

That's hilarious for someone who created an account yesterday and comparing ages tech over here, when one explained what would be optimum setup today is capable he then start talk about old devices limitation. Farneee ~

When you brought out the wireless-N crab, that's when the ego unleashed....

M thinking still worth to upgrade from tplink ac1200 to ac2300?

This morning I tested out my speeds again with my iPhone X
I can get 500Mbps down and about 300Mbps up

I think if you are getting 200-300Mbps now, you should just wait a bit. And also take stock of your current devices as they may not be able to get these speed. And even if you get 500Mbps, do you really need it?
I kinda regret not getting the Deco M9 instead cause at least with that I can get both speed and range.

I just read some of the comments for ugreen seller on cat7. It seems like got one guy say the cat7 cannot use for poe. That means the cat7 is not real copper cat7, is what we called CCA cable. The core is aluminium but clad with copper. No wonder so cheap and it is confirmed inferior compared to nornal full copper cat6 cable.

Haiz, i already bought 2 before reading the comment. Hopefully the 20m i ordered is not shitty. Should had paid a bit more to get real copper cat6 product or made my own.

PC wired can get close to 500Mbps no issue.
Wifi can get about 300Mbps if 3 - 4 meters away.
Maybe upgrade also not much significant difference.

Hi everyone could you please help me to answer this? Hahahaa

And should I call TIME to ask them to change my router to support 500Mbps? Cz now is TP LINK AC1200

Thanks a lot in advance

This post has been edited by stij: Oct 11 2018, 02:56 PM

Wanna ask are tp link deco M5 works like a repeater? Where the bandwidth throughput performance will cut by half something like that?

TPLink supports 500Mbps "technically".

I believe if you downgrade from 500-100 your contract will be reset to 24Mo,
but if you upgrade to 1Gbps it won't reset. Someone correct me if i'm wrong.
However if you already have TPLink C1200 router you will not get the new DLink 882 router upon upgrade.


Usually mesh wifi system will have a backhaul channel with high bandwidth to do all the heavylifting. Your performance won't be cut by half, but will be slightly reduced.

Sorry wrong port.

This post has been edited by kelvin: Oct 11 2018, 03:09 PM

Hi Bro,
Can help to check what is the hardware version of this router when you install to next customer.
Thanks.

Do you mean most of the cheap cable are sold on the it stores are not legit?

Dang just wasted 50ringgit for cat7 cable lol

OK that mean better than those repeater on the market. Coz my house layout was the wifi signal needs to penetrate 2 brick wall only reach master bedroom. So I am not sure which option I should go for.

a) Change a better router
b) Use homeplug and setup an AP
c) Mesh wifi like tp link deco m5

Anyone else notice that since the recent upgrade exercise that their router seems to drop the connection more often?

Router has beed rebooted 4 times in the past 3 days to reestablish a connection.

500Mbps in Damansara area, if it's any indication.

Is it true? I received mine on Monday and immediately installed and connected between my router & PC, so far it is working well.