TP-LinkTL-SF1005D 5-Port 10/100 Mbps Unmanaged Desktop Switch - White with EU Plug

Recommending. Bought this after so much research and stress about what wold work well with our house. Although positioned about 13 meters from the main router (fibre connect), it picks up great signal and has improved data connectivity to the bottom of the garden.

Excellent product. Easy to set up, worked straight away. Discounted price as well, Happy days.

Haven’t found a bad TP-Link product yet.Recently switched to full fiver broadband at 900mbps and was disappointed to find I was only getting about 100mbps through Wi-Fi.I bought a Wi-Fi 6 router to combat this, but it turns out that Wi-Fi 6 isn’t very good at penetrating walls and ceilings.Got this little fella to give me a more stable connection in my living room. It was easy to set up and works great. TP-Link have a great app that makes it all very easy to sort.Speed is much better, now getting between 150 - 200 mbps. I’ll probably eventually switch to a mesh. But for now it’s very stable.

I'd say overall this is a great product and once you have it set up, you're good to go. I've increased my speed from 50-60mbps to 250mbps+ using this device. It does take a little know how to set up though as there were IP settings that needed changing in my case to get a stable connection. So in most cases, it may be plug and play once you've set up WPS. It's a big device but it makes sense for it to extend the connection well.

Got this a few days ago, after a previous wifi extender just stopped working after a couple of years, and that supplier was pretty inept at offering solutions other than 'contact the seller'! I've tried a number of extenders in the past, many just not acceptable at all, and were returned for refund.It seemed impossible to get this TP-Link to initialise, and I tried various ways. So I sought online for troubleshooting solutions, and one was to download their 'Tether' app to my phone. That worked seamlessly right away, asking for my Wifi network password, and device to connect, and it was all set up in a few minutes.So I moved it to the bedroom where my desk is located. This is the dead area, that CAN connect to the living room router, but not consistently. In the bathroom next door it doesn't connect about 95% of the time. When I CAN connect my laptop to my router, speeds are up to about 140 Mbps. Now with the extender, I can get this speed but more usually it's in the 50-80 range. If the router connection is slower (like at peak times), the extender is always faster than the long connection. Works very well in the bathroom too.So it's an improvement on the inconsistent direct connection and much more accessible.Only niggly thing Is that if my phone connects to it and I move back into the living room, it doesn't always switch back to the direct connection [showing xxxxx_EXT instead of just xxxxx], and even vice versa, so I have to check at times that it's on the nearer one. That might just be my phone. But for the static laptop, this is no problem.If this stops working at any point, I'll come back to downgrade the review. (Oct. 24)Update: 18/11/24. I wasn't getting great results from this. I was due an upgrade on my Wifi from 125 to 250, so I thought that would help. Not that much. While the booster is consistent in providing connection, the speeds were consistently between 20 and 30! Just not enough to make the price of this purchase worth it. Returned for a refund, and the engineer who upgraded the broadband told me to get a mesh instead of a booster; always better, and solves the problem of switching between the main and the extension, as it's all under the same network name. I've done that, and speeds are consistently higher now, over 50 up into the 70s.

I have Cat6 boxes behind each TV and at my phone line input, all run to the garage. My ISP has provided me with a wireless hub which has the ASDL switch built in so it has to go at the front door and not in the garage where the other Cat 6 cables run...At present MOST of my devices are wireless however one room is too far away and has no signal yet I want a DLNA client there to stream movies to the TV. Therefore I needed some sort of hub or switch, initially tried an old wireless router with built in hub, that requrired disabling the wifi, then disabling DHCP, then changing its default IP as it clashed with my main router. When it was done it worked but kept disconnecting so purchased this instead!This was ideal as:1, Its very small! really fits in well!2, It looks well, i have it stuck to the wall in the garage, its profile and appearance blends in well.3, It has NO DHCP this was very important, if you have an existing router and you just want to add some wired network capacity you usually dont want an additional DHCP server messing with your network!4, Its fast enough to max out most domestic broadband connections, there are very few scenarios right now where realistically you can say this is not fast enough.5, No setup, its plug and play6, I searched here and other such websites, this was the best value switch I could find and very happy with it.Please note, dont be worried if you look in and see its not using all 8 pins, remember your broadband runs on a phone line which only uses 2!

Really good product.

Verdict, absolute tosh. Standing in the exact same spot, pictures prove without a doubt when performing a wireless speed test that this device hinders instead of helps, you lose around half by using it. You get a stronger signal but what worth is it when you lose half the bandwidth? Both tests where run oke after the other whilst standing no more than a couple feet from this device. Will be going for unbranded next time.Pic one is connected via wi-fi to my router.Pic two, the slower speeds is whilst connected to TPLink supposedly acting as a repeater….more like a (reaper) than a repeater of bandwidth.