![]() With the connected device an extra 35 feet away, the EX6200 came up short with available bandwidth of 70.7Mbps. MORE: How to Set Up Your Wi-Fi Extender for the Best Signal In the same test, the TP-Link RE6560 managed 333.9Mbps, while the D-Link DAP-1720 scored 337Mbps. ![]() In our mock home setup, the EX6200 took the lead by pushing 350.5Mbps to a device on the next floor up and over 30 feet away. Again, the DAP-1720 lagged behind with 21.4Mbps of extended throughput. In the 50-foot extender test, the EX6200's was a little closer with the extender moving 462.6Mbps, 13 percent less than the TP-Link RE650’s 523.9Mbps. Still, it did better than the similarly priced D-Link DAP-1720 extender, which moved only 22Mbps on the same test. The EX6200, however, came up short on the Extender Tests, with throughput of 241.9Mbps versus the TP-Link RE650's 418.8Mbps on the 75-foot test, a decline of 73 percent. Both should do well in extending a Wi-Fi signal to the uncovered extremities of a large home. By contrast, the TP-Link RE650 delivered 434.2Mbps and 525.5Mbps on the same tests, putting the EX6200 a small step ahead on the former and a step behind on the latter. It was able to push through up to 436.0Mbps and 530.3Mbps on our 150- and 100-foot baseline tests. Netgear EX6200 review: Performanceīased on performance testing at our Utah lab with Ixia's IxChariot network-simulation benchmark software, the EX6200 performed admirably and was able to retransmit a strong Wi-Fi signal to the outer reaches of a home. It carries an AC1200 rating, less than half the theoretical throughput of the TP-Link RE650’s AC2600 rating. The EX6200 can deliver up to 300Mbps over the 2.4GHz channel and 900Mbps over the 5GHz channel. Overall, it can handle 2 X 2 data streams, putting it a step behind TP-Link's RE650, which can move 4 X 4 streams. It uses the latest MU-MIMO techniques to satisfy a home full of data-hungry devices and beamforming to tailor the signal to individual devices, but the extender lacks a dedicated backhaul channel for streaming data from the extender to the host something its more expensive sibling, the Nighthawk X6S EX8000, has. Inside, the EX6200 has a dual-band design that relies on a Qualcomm Wi-Fi chip to retransmit the host router's signal across the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels. Unfortunately, you can’t turn the lights off to make it less obtrusive. There are also lights for its five wired Ethernet connections and its USB port. Green means a good connection, while yellow and red indicate that the extender needs to be closer to the router. Its control panel has nine operational LEDs that range from whether it has a link to the host router to color-coded 2.4- and 5GHz network information.
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