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TP-Link N450 WiFi Router - Wireless Internet Router for Home (TL-WR940N)

Reviews by Features

Value

(38 reviews)
Coverage

(47 reviews)
Price

(117 reviews)
Setup

(95 reviews)
Work

(54 reviews)
Range

(142 reviews)
Tech support

(35 reviews)
Expect

(15 reviews)
Product

(150 reviews)
Signal

(186 reviews)
Speed

(118 reviews)
Money

(29 reviews)
Apartment complex

(23 reviews)
Pos

(3 reviews)
Wifi issue

(6 reviews)
Service

(20 reviews)
Wire

(12 reviews)
Connectivity issue

(10 reviews)
Spot

(12 reviews)
Hour

(6 reviews)
Connection issue

(16 reviews)
Doe

(10 reviews)
Zone

(6 reviews)
Connection problem

(9 reviews)

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Reviews around value (4.67 of 5)

  • You can also very easily limit the bandwidth or impose parental controls on specific machines in the admin page as you need them.
  • Once you turn it off, this router becomes the greatest value for the money
  • Very good value for money, makes everything else look overpriced
  • the range isnt as great as i would guess for our house.
  • Great value, cheaper than most others and works very well, large improvement over previous router, easy to set up, great
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Reviews around coverage (4.61 of 5)

  • Far better than some of the lower end units out there - but seems to have spotty coverage
  • Having good coverage is very handy outdoors as we entertain a
  • Easy to set up but spotty coverage
  • I have good coverage through my whole house and halfway out in my yard.
  • Bought this hoping to replace my ISPs rental router and get better coverage in my house.
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Reviews around price (4.58 of 5)

  • Easy setup, super strong signals, great price, great product.
  • Great price, works great, very good range, easy configuration, very satisfied
  • When I saw this model come up for what I thought was a crazy low price of $30 (reg $50 it said
  • Product works great, strong signal and the price is great
  • This has worked great from the get-go very good price for the money.
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Reviews around setup (4.57 of 5)

  • Easy setup but was actually slower than the original router the isp provided making it difficult to do multiple things on our internet at once
  • Setup was also relatively easy - about the same as setting up any other router
  • I am using it as an access point and the setup was very easy.
  • I am not very tech savvy so the setup for this was very easy for me to connect
  • Setup was very easy and have had no problems with functionality.
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Reviews around work (4.55 of 5)

  • Very easy to set up works great .. Only down fall is that its not wall mountable
  • Has some spotty work.
  • Have had it for about a month and it's been working great so far
  • It's work good no trouble with my internet work great
  • Cheap router that works for our 2,600 sq ft home
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Reviews around range (4.45 of 5)

  • No dropouts and great range throughout my bi-level house
  • Great Range, Phenomenal speeds when close to the router as well
  • The price was good, the install was super easy but the range is lacking
  • This is a very good router with the excellent cover range
  • Great price, works great, very good range, easy configuration, very satisfied
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Reviews around tech support (4.32 of 5)

  • Then we had a severe T-storm and my modem and this router blew.
  • It took me forever to get through to a tech support person
  • It is unstable at best, and this was even admitted by the tech support!
  • Then we had a severe T-storm and my modem and this router blew.
  • Amazons tech support sucks because they outsource to the Philipines and their accents are so thick I have to have them rephrase whatever they're saying
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Reviews around expect (4.23 of 5)

  • Very slow to boot up and sometimes fails startup, but works as expected upon successful start.
  • Works as expected, just realize this is only a router, NOT a router-modem, so you'd still have to buy a modem if you get this thing.
  • Then we had a severe T-storm and my modem and this router blew.
  • Not working as expected
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Reviews around product (3.83 of 5)

  • This is a great product which should be very easy for you to hook up, Unless your in your seventies
  • This product failed after 13 months which is unacceptable.
  • Although the product is cheap, it seems not very useful.
  • Perhaps it was just a faulty product, but I chose a Linksys N900 when this one did not work.
  • Beware of their terrible product and even worse customer service!
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Reviews around signal (3.67 of 5)

  • Getting good signal all throughout the house on both floor
  • The only downfall is that the signal is not very strong.
  • It works really really good and the signal is very strong.
  • For the 2nd floor room, some portion of it, closer to the entrance, gets a weak signal
  • This solved the problem and broadcasts a strong wifi signal throughout our entire house.
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Reviews around speed (3.40 of 5)

  • There is no way it can support those speed to your internet connection.
  • Very easy to install and it works great speed is fast no complaints
  • ive been having multiple issues with internet drop off and slow connnection speeds
  • It does not matter how fast the wi-fi is if I cannot get to the internet at a speed faster than 100Mbps.
  • But a great option for slower internet speed and it secures well.
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Reviews around money (3.37 of 5)

  • If you plug anything over 100mbps into this router, you will be throttled back (even on a direct ethernet wired connection) and will be wasting your money for the 300, 400, 1000 mbps internet you are paying your service provider for.
  • I'd like my money back, but that's not going to happen.
  • money worth .Have 2 working problem less now for months ,
  • I feel like spending more money on any other router is useless unless you need extremely long range or it provides some kind of extra function that this does not
  • bad connection even when I use my phone next to the router, absolute garbage, don't waste your money
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Reviews around apartment complex (2.97 of 5)

  • Having good coverage is very handy outdoors as we entertain a
  • No matter how many are on they go as fast as when only one is on
  • No matter how many are on they go as fast as when only one is on
  • Then we had a severe T-storm and my modem and this router blew.
  • I live in an apartment complex and the speeds are abysmal since everyone and their pet dog has their own router
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Reviews around pos (1.95 of 5)

  • The one from the provider is terrible, but not as terrible as this POS
  • At least this POS is cheap so no big loss...but the aggravation and inconvenience!!
  • This really helped boost my wifi modem’s

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Reviews around wifi issue (1.87 of 5)

  • This really helped boost my wifi modem’s
  • Absolutely solved my weak wifi issue by using it as an Access Point.
  • The TP link solved all my wifi issues
  • At this point the router is working find, will come back if I start to develop wifi issues.
  • This really helped boost my wifi modem’s
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Reviews around service (1.85 of 5)

  • just the horrible service we get from viasat that sucks
  • But if you have questionable internet service anyways from living out in boondocks, wouldn't recommend this one.
  • I ordered on amazon knowing they have awesome customer service and would accept returns if needed
  • Beware of their terrible product and even worse customer service!
  • Spectrum made me upgrade my modem for faster internet, I had to purchase a new router to go with it, service has been terrible from day one.
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Reviews around wire (1.54 of 5)

  • Have a hard wired desktop and multiple wireless devices.
  • It runs less than half the speed when connected via a hard-wire connection ... bypassing the router doubles the speed.
  • Almost same speed as my wired and the wireless distance is good especially for the price.
  • Started slowing the internet connection to less than 1 Mb/sec after a little over a month while having over 25 Mb/sec service on my hard wired desktop
  • The wireless network worked fine; wired didn't work.
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Reviews around connectivity issue (1.54 of 5)

  • Then we had a severe T-storm and my modem and this router blew.
  • This really helped boost my wifi modem’s
  • ago I bought a cheap wireless N router and installed it in my aunt's house.
  • ago I bought a cheap wireless N router and installed it in my aunt's house.
  • I have regular connectivity issues : (and i am sure its the router , not the pc , since I take my laptop everywhere , but i have problem only when i am home , where this is the router i am using)1
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Reviews around spot (1.44 of 5)

  • I bought two of these routers so that I could use one as a router and one as an access point to fix these dead spots
  • This router met all my requirements, I used a extender to cover all the dead spots but with this router I just removed the extender from where it was as I dont need it anymore, it looks great and the set up is very simple
  • I needed a router as an access point /extender to fix the dead spots in my apartment
  • This really helped boost my wifi modem’s
  • I had a dead spot in my apt that my old router couldn’t quite reach
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Reviews around hour (1.44 of 5)

  • After an exasperating hour, I took it to our pro IT guys and they initially thought I was an idiot
  • Why should waste 6 hours of my time to try and get help, are they going to pay me for waiting 6 hours
  • Every device now lose WiFi connection every 2-3 hours.
  • Spent a few hours via chat sessions, and phone sessions ... lost phone conversations twice ... long hold times ... had to re-explain things
  • I wasted over an hour trying to get this piece of junk to work with no success
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Reviews around connection issue (1.32 of 5)

  • ago I bought a cheap wireless N router and installed it in my aunt's house.
  • ago I bought a cheap wireless N router and installed it in my aunt's house.
  • no stopping for "internet connection" issues, no problems whatsoever.
  • This really helped boost my wifi modem’s
  • ago I bought a cheap wireless N router and installed it in my aunt's house.
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Reviews around doe (1.25 of 5)

  • Performance is superb and does not cause any latency
  • This did not work at all, the wifi still does not work
  • It's a pain to setup in that aspect, but it does work.
  • Cheap price, but my does this thing fly
  • does not work
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Reviews around zone (1.00 of 5)

  • I had a dead zone in my house and needed a cheap but reliable router
  • Sadly, my bed is in one of the dead zones, so I can't surf before bedtime
  • My basement is a dead zone but the hard wire to this device works very
  • ago I bought a cheap wireless N router and installed it in my aunt's house.
  • 4 stars only because there is a room in my house that is a dead zone
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Reviews around connection problem (1.00 of 5)

  • They work fine for the first month, and then you start getting connection problems and unless you power off and back on, they continue.
  • ago I bought a cheap wireless N router and installed it in my aunt's house.
  • ago I bought a cheap wireless N router and installed it in my aunt's house.
  • ago I bought a cheap wireless N router and installed it in my aunt's house.
  • When I first bought it there was some connection problems and i needed to restart it at least twice a week
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