Netgear EX6120 AC1200 Review: Small Size, Super Performance

Petite and simple to set up, the Netgear EX6120 AC1200 Essentials Edition Wi-Fi go extender can massively extend a Wi-Fi arrange while remaining about undetectable. In any case, its innovation is out of date, it presents poor execution, and the extender incorporates just 90 days of help.

Basic, little and direct, the Netgear EX6120 AC1200 Essentials Edition Wi-Fi run extender is a snap to set up, however it frustrates on execution, and the organization offers help for just three brief months. The extender's $60 sticker price makes the gadget alluring, yet its execution will probably be a setback for clients.

Design

The white and silver EX6120 estimates simply 2.6 x 2.1 x 1.6 inches, in spite of the fact that its two aimable radio wires broaden 4 inches. These can't be supplanted. Miniscule contrasted with its congested cousin, the Netgear Nighthawk X6S, the EX6120 has a two-prong plug that goes directly into an AC outlet and doesn't square adjoining outlets. It comes up short on a go through AC outlet.

The EX6120 utilizes four LEDs in advance to demonstrate that it's controlled on and that the WPS framework for rapidly associating with a customer or switch is dynamic. This extender does not have a multilight flag quality meter, yet the Router and Device lights shine green when the connections are solid, orange when they're frail and red when they're poor.

As an afterthought are catches for utilizing WPS to interface and to kill the gadget on and. A reset catch is recessed, tucked away among the gadget's cooling vents.

Performance

Little in stature, the EX6120 was similarly little in execution. Tests in our Utah office utilizing Ixia's iXChariot programming demonstrate that the EX6120 conveyed a throughput of just 41.2 Mbps in our 50-foot extender test (in which the extender is set 100 feet from the switch).

In spite of the fact that this outcome is generally twofold the yield of the Coredy E300 (22.6 Mbps), it fails to measure up to the TP-Link RE650's 523.9 Mbps and the Netgear X6S' 526.1 Mbps. The EX6120's capacity to convey 51.2 Mbps on the 75-foot test (in which the extender is 150 feet from the switch) was better, yet at the same time well off the pace of the best extenders.

Highlights

Agreeable with the 802.11ac spec, the EX6120 exceeds the 802.11n-based Coredy E300 extender, yet it's still obsolete. It utilizes neither pillar shaping nor MU-MIMO innovation to continue associations with numerous clients on the double. Netgear extender setup helps you extend the range of your wifi to every corner of your home or office.

In view of its capacity to hypothetically move 300 Mbps in the 2.4-GHz band, the EX6120 has a greatest throughput of 867 Mbps in the 5-GHz band. It conveys an AC1200 rating.

On the drawback, similar to the Coredy E300, the EX6120 utilizes the outdated 100Base-TX standard for its Ethernet port instead of the quicker GbE gigabit spec. While the EX6120 can be set up as an extender or passageway, it does not have a USB port, so you can't straightforwardly interface a printer, scanner or hard drive. You can contact mywifiext.net for support anytime required.

Setup and Software

In view of Netgear's Genie programming, the EX6120's setup routine mirrors the Netgear X6S'. This extender can be designed either with WPS or by means of its program based everyday practice. Utilizing the last methodology, it took me 9 minutes to get this gadget to broaden my home system.