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UPDATED REVIEW : In my original review below I gave this extender 4 stars. With it installed close to the router it seemed to be performing well in both the 2.4 and 5.0. The signal strength was good and the speed tests, as you can see below, were very acceptable. All was well, for a couple of days, and then the 5.0 began to fail. After five or six resets I gave up trying to use the 5.0 and started using the 2.4. Although not as fast it was still fast enough to keep up with anything I do. Because it's 2.4 is faster then my other extender I was considering just keeping this one in spite of its 5.0 failure. Well, it only took a day and a half before the 2.4 followed in the footsteps of the 5.0. I didn't buy this extender to power it on and off 5 or 6 times a day, so back it goes. My other extender, an MSRM, my not be as fast but it's much more reliable. To the seller: If you don't want peoples experience with this extender to turn them against trying your other products, as you state in every negative review response I've read, then here's my advice to you...GET IT RIGHT OR DONT SELL THEM!! As you can see below, I tried to be fair and did everything necessary to allow this extender to perform at its best, but it's just a bad product, or at the very least many of them are. Do you really expect people to believe that your other products are going to be any better? Come on, get real....Time to go shopping for a 5.0 MSRM. ORIGINAL REVIEW : You have to be fair to the extender. It is MUCH more important that the extender be close to the router than be close to you, especially when we're talking about the 5.0 signal. Placing the extender 20 or 30 feet from the router, especially if there is a wall or two between them, is not going to cut it when we're talking about using a 5.0 signal. Remember, the signal strength you see on your device reflect your connection to the extender, NOT the signal strength between the router and the extender. If that signal is weak your full signal bars shown on your device is meaningless. Now, that being said, of course you want to place the extender as close as possible to the area you want to extend to, but not at the expense of signal strength between the extender and the router. To find the best location to place the extender, stand next to your router and connect your device to your 5.0 router signal. You device should now show full bars signal strength. Now, start walking in the direction of the area you want to extend to while keeping an eye on your signal strength. At the first sign of a weakening signal that's your distance limit. You must place the extender within that distance. Anywhere outside of that and you're going to have 5.0 connection issues between your device and the extender regardless of the signal strength between your device and the extender. In reading many of the negative reviews I believe this is the cause of many of them because I had most of these issues myself until I placed the extender within the full strength 5.0 signal range of the router. The first picture below show the speed test of my 5.0 signal between my iPad and my router at the location I placed my extender. In the second picture I connected to the extender and ran the speed test while being right next to the extender. The 4 star rating is because I was disappointed with the amount of speed loss, but it's still quite fast. I then went into the bedroom, the area I wanted to extend to, closed the door and ran the test. Although there was quite a bit more speed loss, my connection is stable and still fast enough for video streaming despite having two instead of three bars of signal strength. (After submitting this review I realized I didn't show this speed test results. Picture 5 is the results) I will add that without the extender I can't get any 5.0 signal in the bedroom and my 2.4 is only one bar and unusable. However my extender 2.4 signal is three bars and quite fast. Picture 3 reflects that test. Picture 4 shows the test of the 2.4 one bar router signal I mentioned. So far, over all I would recommend this extender, and as long as it keeps working the way it is now I will be pleased. I will update this review if anything changes.