The RE305 performed particularly well in our 150-foot line of sight test and a multi-story test where the router was placed in an enclosed, soundproofed room 30 feet away from the extender, with the test laptop 35 feet away and a floor above the extender and router. We conducted all tests using Ixia’s IX Chariot to monitor network speeds both with and without the RE305 between the router and end-user laptop. Most Wi-Fi extenders we tested only managed to capture and rebroadcast a portion of the original wireless signal, but the TP-Link extenders, including the RE305, RE450 and RE650, maintained or improved network quality in almost all our tests.
In fact, it offered the second-best performance. We tested it in our office and lab, and it easily handled our 400 Mbps+ network speeds. This more than covers the needs of most home networks. Wirelessly, the RE305 has max speeds up to 300 Mbps on the 2.4 GHz band and 867 Mbps on the 5 GHz band for a combined max throughput of 1,167 Mbps. The Fast Ethernet port does not affect wireless speeds or connectivity when the RE305 works as an extender, so it’s still one of the best options for expanding Wi-Fi into dead zones. And if you plan to use your extender as a wired access point, the port limits the broadcast Wi-Fi signal to 100 Mbps as well. Fast Ethernet speeds top out at 100 Mbps, so any device connected to the extender with a wired connection only gets a 100 Mbps connection at best. With AC1200 speeds, the RE305 can handle Gigabit Ethernet wirelessly, so it doesn’t make sense that the device would introduce a speed-limiting factor into its design. Although it has almost every feature we evaluated, it has a Fast Ethernet port instead of a Gigabit Ethernet port. The RE305 is a small wall-plug device that features Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), helpful LED status lights, two rotatable external antennas and dual band connectivity.
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