Tp-link is a Chinese manufacturing company, has its goodwill from 17 yrs back by satisfying customers with their reliable products. Tp-link is renowned for bringing smart home connectivity products in the market. From September 2016, tp link started expanding their products to the smart home products changing the lifestyle of the people.
Tp Link is one of the leading brands to manufacture wireless network gadgets. The company has their goodwill on so many reliable products such as ADSL, router, IP cameras, print servers, power banks and much more to let the people enjoy their facilities and amenities. The organization has their control over many magnificent products, the supply chain of which is also maintained by traditional retailers, direct market sellers, wholesalers, service providers, value-added resellers and much more who are still managing to distribute their products in wide range of the world.
One of the most awaited and demanding products of Tp-link is Repeaters. Repeaters are one of the most reliable products of Tp-link company because of their efficiency and essence in the market. Extenders have able to maintain their as well as organization goodwill in a far better way.
Features of Tp-link TL-WA850RE Repeater
- This tp link repeater is having the mode to boost up the wireless signal to hard-to-wire areas flawlessly.
- Minimal size and wall-mounted design to make it easy to deploy and move flexibly
- A push Range extender button to easily expand the range of wireless coverage.
- Ethernet port is there to allow the Repeater to operate as the wireless adapter to connect the wired devices.
- Tp-link has also sophisticated their customers with the Tether App to allow easy access to the management of the Tp-link extender by using any mobile device.
- It also presents Night mode for LED control function which will give you a peaceful sleep.
Tp-link repeater setup
Tp-link repeaters are used to gain access to the wide range signals. They are renownedly known as range extenders. These repeaters are not only efficient in catching the far range of network but are also beneficial in avoiding the barricade between the network source and your router. It enhances the network speed of the router which in turn increases the efficiency of your tp link router.
Tp-link has provided the ease to easily access the setup of the Tp-link repeater with the help of www.tplinkrepeater.net. The set up is utilized to configure or personalize the network settings.
Follow these easy steps to configure your tp link repeater.
- Open the management website of tp link repeater by typing tplinkrepeater.net on the URL of the browser. You can also use the assigned IP address 192.168.0.254 to open the admin page of the tp link repeater.
- The screen will prompt you to fill up the Login Credentials. Fill up the User ID and Password of the admin page to get enter into the management page.
- After entering into the web page.Click Networ Make sure the IP address in the IP segment on the screen should be the same as the IP address assign to your TP link device. Then click the Save button.
- Then Click Quick Setup>Next>Wireless. Select Extender as the Operation Mode. Then click Search.
- There you can see the router’s SSID on the list, Find your router’s SSID and then Click Connect.
- Click Save
- Click Wireless, then Wireless security. Select WPA-PSK, and Encryption AE Input the password test link in the PSK password field.
- Click System Tools>Diagnostic. Then type IP address168.0.254 in the IP address. Then, click start
- Your Tp-link repeater gets configured successfully
How to hard reset the Tp-link Extender?
A hard reset of Tp-link extender will restore your Tp-link extender back to its default settings. You have to reconfigure your device after the reset process or have to again install the configuration file which you have backed up before resetting the extender.
Follow these instructions to perform a hard reset on your Tp-link extenders
- First, located the factory reset button behind your Tp-link extender.
- The button will probably be beside the Ethernet port of the Tp-link extender.
- Press and hold the reset button which is on the rear panel with the sleek pin or paper clip for approximately 10 seconds.
- If you can see the lights flashing going off and go back on gradually, it means the device has been successfully got reset.
Note: Resetting your Repeater will bring back all the default settings along with your Password of the management site of the Repeater. So, be careful while logging into the admin page of the repeater which is easily accessed by www.tplinkrepeater.net. Do not enter the password which you have maintained by yourself. Fill up the password bar by the “admin”.
Can I use two tp link extenders?
Yea sure, you can easily use two repeaters with few caveats.
Note: Performance can be degraded by connecting one extender to another extender wirelessly. So, in order to maintain the speed, each extender should be directly connected to the main router
Can I use wireless range repeaters as a router?”
Range repeaters cannot be used as the router to enhance the Internet by public hotspots. You cannot also connect a repeater to the wireless network of another repeater.
Where should I place my Tp-link extender to get the maximum speed?
The appropriate location to place your tp link extender is between the network source and your tp link router. There is also another method if there is a barricade exists, Then, place your repeater tplinkrepeater.net just before or after the barrier to get the best speed of your router.
How do I log in to my tp link repeater.?
Easy steps to log in to your tp link repeater.
- Get a browser open, typetplinkrouter.net on the link of the browser. You can also type local IP address 192.168.0.254 in place of www.tplinkrouter.net.
- After typing the above link. A login page will appear.
- You have to fill up the login credentials which will be constituted with Username and password. Fill up the username with “admin” and password with “admin” to log into your tp link repeater web page tplinkrepeater.net.
Note: In case, you have reset the password, so type the password that you have put in place of the default password.
What is the need for restoring the default setting of Repeater.?
The most probable case of restoring the default setting of your repeater is when you forgot the login password of your repeater. As Tp-link does not give any option to recover the password of your Tp-link repeater tplinkrepeater.net.