About
All Feedback (677)
- housewares-shop (20227)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGood buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.
- homelive_9 (3162)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchasePlease feel free to contact us if you have any questions. If you are
- moneycruncher (531490)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseHope to deal with you again. Thank you.
- *****- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseGood buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended.
- *****- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThank you for an easy, pleasant transaction. Excellent buyer. A++++++.
- agora0771 (52155)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat communication. A pleasure to do business with.
Reviews (1)
29 Nov, 2020
Worse than useless
2 of 2 found this helpful I have confirmed what others have said; this thing slows *everything* down. I had a cold spot in the living room and bought this to replace a wall-wart Netgear extender that worked, but took up a socket and used a different SSID to the main wifi, which was a faff when moving between rooms. The socket is in the same position as the old Netgear extender. Did some measurements:
- Download speed at router (i.e. the best I can expect): 7.2Mbps.
- Download speed at socket position, socket wifi switched off (connecting direct to router): 5.3M .
- At socket position using Netgear extender: 5.7M.
- Same position using BG socket wifi: 0.3M with a 250ms delay! In practice this is unusable; everything just times out.
In the cold spot - about 3m from the socket in direct line of sight, I get:
- Direct to router: 1.7M, 31ms delay.
- Netgear extender: 5.7M, 35ms delay.
- BG socket extender: don't know, it was so slow the speed test bombed out.
In every test I did, the speed is an order of magnitude better with the thing switched off! Yes it does boost signal strength in remote areas, but with those transfer speeds I might as well use carrier pigeons. I guess the problem is the link from socket to router, which is obviously specific to my installation, but both my phone and the Netgear extender seem to manage the same link OK.
My advice, if like me you're stuck with it until you can be bothered changing the whole socket: pressing the little button 3 times turns it off.