Asus RP-N53 Wireless N600 Range Extender Review
Chris Hadley / 11 years ago
Performance
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In our office environment, the extra coverage that the repeater gave was one of the best we have seen to date, the speeds experienced as well were (from the same point we could get a signal from the router direct) slightly better than we was expecting. This is a good example that for some devices, signal strength is highly related to speeds experienced.
With the unit installed in to my home, the extension to the coverage naturally wasn’t as great as the office, again due to the walls, but the speeds experienced in today’s set of tests were very good – again noting a slightly better speed when connected through the plug at 2.4GHz.
