Not great by any means, but usable for sure. I was getting about 80Mpbs on the 2Ghz band and 160Mbps on the 5Ghz band. Once I changed to “wired to Wi-Fi” (ethernet) mode. Once I enable the 5Ghz network, I was able to slightly increase performance (around 55 Mbps). In my testing, performance dropped by about 80% (to about 20 Mbps) when using only the 2Ghz network. Next this also means that the WINEGARD - EXTREME 2.0 HIGH PERFORMANCE OUTDOOR WI-FI EXTENDER is stomping on the source Wi-Fi and adding to the congestion by rebroadcasting on the same channel. First, there seems to be only one 2Ghz radio that must be utilized to both transmit and receive on the same channel. Next you can’t have the source network be one 2Ghz channel (like 3) and the rebroadcasted channel to be something less crowded (like 2Ghz / Ch 9). (I have confirmed this with WINEGARD support). If you are attempting Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi extender mode (the default mode), you should know that the source Wi-Fi can only be on the 2Ghz Network. My baseline speed from my (2021) laptop to my in house Wi-Fi network (2019) is about 500Mbps to the internet. At least with their antennas they, usually include 25-100 feet of coax. It would have been nice if WINEGARD include a cable or two for initial setup and maybe even deployment. Every time you change anything on a setup page, you need to press “Continue” to save the settings, and then wait a few minutes for the router to incorporate the changes. Wait for the Wi-Fi Name to come up, connect to it then configure it using the information printed on the instruction sheet. The setup is really easy and straight forward. I do highly recommend that you enable the 5Ghz band, as I had far better performance (faster) than 2Ghz even at 400 ft from the WINEGARD - EXTREME 2.0 HIGH PERFORMANCE OUTDOOR WI-FI EXTENDER. If you can barely get a signal outside your home, then unless you wire this to your home network you will not get any usable additional bandwidth. A lot of it depends upon what you need the Wi-Fi for. However, if you are connected to a wired network, then you can probably get close to 90-100Mbps (assuming 100Mbps is your normal max speed). If you get for example 100 Mbps just outside the wall of your house, with the overhead of WiFi to WiFi you might get up to 40-60 Mbps a 100 feet into your yard / outdoor space though likely closer to something like 20Mbps.
In Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi mode you are only as good as your weakest Wi-Fi link. However, if you are hoping to boost a weak Wi-Fi signal and suddenly make it stronger this is not how things like this work. I was able to get a “usable signal” at about 400 ft line of site.Īs long as you can physically connect the included POE (Power Over Ethernet) adapter to your wired network or a spare port on your router, then you should be satisfied with the performance. It does a good job, when configured as a wired to Wi-Fi access point, but it is not so good as a WiFi-WiFi extender. The antenna is well protected, and it is nice that there is mounting gear included.
The WINEGARD - EXTREME 2.0 HIGH PERFORMANCE OUTDOOR WI-FI EXTENDER is very easy to use and to setup. WINEGARD - EXTREME 2.0 HIGH PERFORMANCE OUTDOOR WI-FI EXTENDER
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