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

I purchased this router a week ago, so I cannot comment about the longevity of it. I'm out of my element when it comes to IT since I don't really know what I'm doing or what to look for when it comes to IT-related devices, network, etc., but I took a chance on this since the reviews were pretty good overall. I was worried about the many poor reviews and the chance that I'd get one that didn't work, but I haven't been disappointed. I had a Cisco Linksys router that needed to be replaced which is why I bought this one. My connection is SO much better with this router. I would constantly get buffering and connection problems with Netflix and Plex, and my wifi status on both my laptop and Surface would switch to "Limited" pretty often. Even browsing on my phone was a pain and often I'd have to turn off the wifi. It got much, much worse over the last month. For now, though only a week old, this router has been great. The set up was quick and easy. I did it myself (and I'm not super tech savvy) within five minutes or so. The only problem I had with the set up was the cable that came with it; it didn't work. I swapped it with one I had lying around and it worked just fine. I was able to easily log into to the router using the internet and set up a static IP for my NAS (with A LOT of help from Google searches!) and that's worked well so far. I had no problem connecting all my devices and I have not experienced any problems with my connection. I have been able to watch things on Netflix with no buffering, no stopping for "internet connection" issues, no problems whatsoever. My download speed is also much faster. My phone can say connected to my wifi and I can browse quickly with no issues. It is seriously night and day with my connection. I understand it seems like this router is fantastic when it was actually the old one was just poor from the start, but for the money this router seems to be pretty great. I'm assuming this router acts like a router is supposed to so I have no complaints thus far. Once I've had it for a few months, I'll post an edit to this review stating whether it still works well or not at all as some people have claimed.

This is a GREAT Wi-Fi router especially for its price of $30! I've had at least a half a dozen different Wi-Fi routers in the past. About 6 months ago I upgrade my cable modem and Wi-Fi router to a combo modem/Wi-Fi router - a $149 Motorola SBG6580 DOCSIS 3.0 so I could upgrade my Comcast speed to 57MB. This worked very well but on the other side of my house the Wi-Fi signal would degrade a little, I'd lose a bar or two, some speed and it would be noticeable on occasion streaming HD videos. This was further complicated by numerous Wi-Fi routers across all 2.4Ghz channels in my neighborhood. I tried a pair of TRENDnet Powerline adapters for a direct connection but they were worse. Since this was cheap and had good reviews I gave it a try. I plugged it in to a port on my existing router, downloaded the latest firmware/updated it and just sat it a few feet away from my Wi-Fi router. I tested it on two smart Wi-Fi enabled TV's, one with a Chromecast, a tablet and my notebook. In all cases there was visible improvement, one or two extra bars and faster internet speed tests on my tablet and notebook at far distances. I have a free program named inSSIDer that I got off the web. It will show you all visible Wi-Fi signals in your area, their strength, what channels they are broadcasting on, rank them and assorted information. I left this router set at all of the default auto selections and did not choose a channel. Most Wi-Fi routers broadcast on a single channel that overlap the frequencies on either side (1.5 channels each way) of the channel for a spectrum of 20. Some router can broadcast on two channels for a spectrum of 40. BUT in the US routers are supposed to automatically kick down to 20 when they encounter competing signals (like I have in my neighborhood). This router does not kick down and broadcasts on channel 3 & 7 for a very wide and stable signal.

If you are new or still learning about computer gadgets and networking this is a very easy product to handle and will do what you need. This is older tech, there is no 5 Ghz radio only 4 Ghz wireless N. It will do what most people it is not a Fancy MIMO gaming router by any means it will do what most people need in a small house or apartment. The app that controls the unit makes it beyond easy. That's my only real complaint there should be an option to open up all the settings to those that know what do with them. I have a new wifi 6 router that runs my gaming rig this was bought to connect up with all the google home smart devices (switches, plugs, lights, security cameras) because many of those lower priced products came out before the Mesh routers and have issues connecting to them. After you've had to setup your house network after something happened to put em all in pair mode again (like your power hopped three or more times which is usually the pair mode command) or if you change out your main router you'll understand why I decided to get a product like this just for all the house wifi devices as this is not going to be changed out as much as the main one will be.

I have only had this router for a little over a week, but so far I love it. I'm even using an EoL modem that Comcast doesn't recommend or fully support. You can get the modem cheap and refurbished from Woot (have to catch the sales), or new one from here: ARRIS SURFboard SB6141 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem - Retail Packaging - White . This router's range fills my 2 story house just fine when centrally located (N450). I can name at least 3 reasons it seems better than my stock, high spec gateway from Comcast. 1) The gateway always seems to go out at least once a week. So far this router has been steady as a rock. 2) What I didn't know, is that the newer AC type wifi that my gateway has, though much higher speed, has much less range than the older N type, which this is. Considering I don't have the fastest internet 150Mbps (per 3 Bands?) is just fine for me, and probably most users. The 800Mbps routers would probably be good for those who want to transfer information between devices over wifi, or have a lot of wireless devices that soak up the wifi bandwidth, but that's it. Also, the wired connection is only 100Mbps, so super fast 800Mbps file transfer would have to be wifi device to wifi device. 3) With the gateway, I had to reconnect the wifi every time I booted up my laptop. I suspect that this is because it is older with an EoL wifi network card that isn't even really compatible with Windows 10. It doesn't seem to agree with the newer AC wifi. The N works like a charm every boot up. I suspect many would have a similar situation. If you've gone through the reviews, you will notice that almost all the negative ones are related to range, and not to this one but the N300 (A big factor in why I bought this one instead). I don't know why you would buy the N300 when the N450 is much better for just a little more. I have linked my modem also, but there are better, non EoL ones that are still supported by the cable companies if you are willing to pay.

Update: I was away, we had a severe thunderstorm in the area, power was out. I monitor my house remotely and thought unless I was physically there, everything would be off. The TP-Link went back online, the Netgear didn't even respond. All the cameras, Z-wave house controls went back on with the TP-Link. I never had such luck with the previous Netgear. I strongly recommend this inexpensive and work great router. It is a bit early for rating since I tested only for 1 day. I may come back and give 1 star if it is dead after 1 week. However, for the time being, if you are looking for basic, low-price (the emphasis is low-price), this one is hard to beat. I used to be a tad leery of second tier network equipment makers like TP Link, but the it improves and the product is getting to be quite decent. There are two features that aren't great, but one shouldn't complain for this price: 1- it is not very responsive to admin access. oo many times it gives a page to tp-link website because the http server part doesn't work. A bit frustrating that one has to turn on, off, or reset. Also, it doesn't allow more than 1 admin log in at a times. The problem is that it doesn't detect the admin log in is broken, hence should allow open another log in to reboot. 2- It doesn't have DHCP list for wired connection. This is a real problem for me as I use both wifi and Ethernet. I have to use other network software to find out the IP's of wired devices. Other than those two, for a minimum typical user, this one is perhaps as good as any in terms of bang for the buck. I purchased it only as a backup and an aggregate access point, but it impresses me enough to let it be the main wifi router and relegate the other router to be the access point. One last thing about speed: I tested it side-by-side with a Netgear and a Linksys. As the other two are older models (1 year or more), I expected TP-link to be better with the newer 450 Mbs protocol. It is indeed proven better from 20% to 35% depending on location of my laptop within the house. So, again, it is a decent one.

It's been about 18 months since I installed this router to replace another cheap TP Link that I gave away. For the first 6 months, this router was flawless. There was nothing to complain about...speed was faster than what my Comcast service allowed, and multiple laptops, phones, and tablets over WiFI worked simultaneously. WiFi range is quite good. After 6 months, I began to notice some particular device would not get through on the internet, while others worked fine. I tracked it down to the router assigning the same IP address as an existing device. Assigning static IP didn't seem to help. The only way to fix the problem was a power cycle. In the last couple of months, a new symptom started, where all the devices on the router would be denied internet traffic. Again, a reboot solved the issue. I have to reboot the router about once a week. I never had to reboot my previous $20 TP LInk, which would run for years. One has to keep in mind this is a $30 router. For what it costs, there's not much to complain. While rebooting it once a week is no big deal, when the router dies during an backup to the cloud, I get annoyed. I will be replacing it with a Mikrotik hAP AC UPDATE 2-Jan-2018: Yes, it's running latest firmware for V3 hardware. I think it's on the fritz, now various devices randomly lose WiFi connection every few hours. I used to spec TP Link routers for a lot of my projects, but from now it will be Mikrotik UPDATE 6-Jan-2018: Every device now lose WiFi connection every 2-3 hours. Reconnecting to WiFI requires entering password each time. Thank goodness my Mikrotik hAP AC arrived today -- I no longer have to deal with this TP Link mess. Will next replace the TP Link at my mom's, which has developed exactly same issue after approx. 4 months of trouble-free use.

I am in IT Tech. I do this stuff 40 hours a week. I really just wanted a range extender, but set it up as a router. It is 10x better than the garbage verizon provides you with, but I have to keep that one for it provides the actual co ax connection from the box outside. The interface is super easy to use. It has everything right there on the left-hand side that you could need. Why, if you ever need to reboot it you can even do that via the interface and it reboots very quickly. Update: 2/23/2021 I updated the firmware and my laptop kept losing signal every 3 minutes or so. Contacted their support and got tired of their troubleshooting so I reset it to factory settings. Problem resolved. I recently added a new high yield wifi printer. Printers should always have a static IP address and usually, you need to get the IP from DHCP and the MAC address assigned from the printer config page, but no. It is all right on the router interface. I was able to easily copy and paste the mac and IP address and reserve them so the printer always has the same one. I really don't know what people on here need such high speeds for at home. Unless you are providing service to NASA anything around 100 Mbps is just fine. Just make sure to upgrade the firmware first thing after setting it up. In future you will have to back up the router and then upgrade the firmware, for it will most likely revert back to factory settings if you don't and you will have to set up all your stuff up again, but even then it is no big deal...especially if your devices are all DHCP. I recommend this router to my clients as well. It is inexpensive for them and advantageous for me, since I am accustomed to working with this device already.

Bought a TL-WR940N, TL-WA901ND, and TL-WA801ND and they do NOT work well together. I purchased all TP-Link products because I was hoping that it would mean they would work well together. Nope. The Router: I can connect to the router, but most of the time the internet connection is really spotty, and half the time the internet connection drops. the Router is in the DMZ zone of the cable modem's router. The room I'm trying to access from is directly above the router. The Repeaters: The two repeaters are about 30-35 feet from the router. One is placed so that two wifi cameras can connect to the network. When I connect to the repeaters, I know I am connected because I can see the cameras on the network, but most of the time I am unable to access the router (via IP address), let alone the internet. Ironically, the wifi cameras' connections are solid, but the repeater-router connection is spotty. I've reconfigured I don't know how many times, with reboots, power cycles, etc etc ad nauseam. This setup is essentially unusable for me. I'm sure there's someone out there who's gotten it working, but I think I lost a couple days off my life from the frustration of finding that one magical combination of resyncs, reboots, power cycles, and alignment of the planets to get this to work. I have a computer science degree and even took a networking project course at the time so I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what I'm doing. I guess it takes a MS or PhD to figure this thing out. These are actually the first items I'll actually be returning to Amazon because they don't work. The only other items I've returned were wrong items or flat out broken.

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Its a good basic router. Decent security and routing options. Good for small home/office use. Works with up to 7 devices streaming Netflix simultaneously. Starts struggling after more than 7 devices.

De tp link w 940 en is een simpele router/ accesspoint die simpel is te installeren. Werkt perfect, goede zend sterkte. Ik gebruik hem als accesspoint. Ook mogelijk om verschillende apparaten bekabeld aan te sluiten ( 3 poorten) enige nadeel wat verouderde beveiliging. Updaten via tp link site goed.

Je l'ai acheté pour compléter ma box (trop souvent échangée !) pour avoir des adresses fixe pour mon Jeedom. Rien à reprocher.

I will divide the review in 17 stages. My house is about 1500 SqFt. And has 2BHK in a Single floor. 1. My plan is YOU Broadband (PPPoE connection) of 50 MBPS DL/UL 1800 GB FOR 3 Months. 2. Consider only 2.4 Ghz single band wifi router. 3. Prefer this only if connection speed upto 100 MBPS. 4. If someone's speed geting limited to 10MBPS, it's not router fault, ask the technician to connect to gigabit port or any other lan port on junction box. 5. Donot change any duplex settings, as it is not required. 6. It has MIMO technology, thus has better range than tplink 300N anyday. 7. The Archer C20 model has less range than this 450N model, also it has disconnection issues due to multiple 2.4/5ghz support. 8. My WAN cable is Cat 6E cable with two pairs(4 wires) lan cable and not 8 cable but my wire supports it. 9.lso, if anyone has any issues can contact me. 10. I also used dlink 750 819IN, it did not connect to PPPoE connection. 11. This 450N tplink has no issues with PPPoE, Static/Dynamic IP and also has auto detect and auto detect features. 12. There is other features such as guest wifi and bandwidth control. 13. Also, as only 2.4 ghz there is no disconnection issues due to no dual bnad support. 14. I had exchanged various routers due to PPPoE issues and other problems but this is the best one I would suggest this router for everyone. 15. Protip - keep connection settings to connect automatically or manually with 0 ideal time(Both works). 16. Additionally - good wifi signals everywhere due to MIMO technology, easy setup process and I did not talk with tech support yet. 17. Also, update to latest firmware available as of August 2020.