NexusLink Gaming Router Extender, Optimized for Online Play, Streaming, and VR, High-Speed AC1750, MU-MIMO for Low Ping, Single Unit

I have a 200 mbps Spectrum internet service and trying to get my computer connected to the router at full speed has been elusive for over a year! Wired Ethernet is out of the question as unable to run cable in existing building, and best I could do with MOCA was 100 meg. Attribute this to being in a condo and not able to completely trace all the splitters, etc and even with gigabyte MOCA something is limiting it to 100 meg. Wireless from the wireless card in the computer to the router (top of the line Netgear) just would not get much over 80 meg so finally found on Amazon this system primarily for gaming, but no reason it shouldn't work for station to station as advertised. Connected one unit to the router by Ethernet cable, and then 50 feet down the hall, inside two doorways set up the other unit. Fired it up in about 20 seconds, and initially got only 40 meg and high ping (150ms) was devastated! BUT!!!! After a few moments, the ping went to 40 ms, about normal, and speed clocked at over 200 mbps! Seemed almost like the setup had to find a correct channel or whatever, and has been working at these high speeds ever since.VERY pleased and hope it continues. Sometimes it takes a second or so to reach full speed, but comes up every time. Could be a quirk of the router, etc. but after a moment or so full speed.Must say extremely easy set up. Plugged each unit in to power and connected the ethernet cable to the router port and other to the gig port on computer. After a minute or so pushed the WPS setup button on each unit, and viola! Found each other and rock solid ever since. Have a connection monitor running on my computer to pick up any momentary drops in connection, but after and hour no drops at all. And this measures drops of under a second.So, at this time, highly recommend this to give problem connections between a computer and router beyond what the router wireless and computer wireless can give, at least in my situation. No way to test higher speeds as 200 meg is all i have available, but handles this fine. If anything changes over time will update this, but after trying many different ways to connect, this is the best I have found. A little expensive but beats the heck out of powerline adapters (tried all there were)....do not work very well at least in my setup, and have used elsewhere, and not very impressed. MOCA I like, but if your cable and splitters do not allow over 100 meg, then no good. And if ANY 100 meg adapters in your system anywhere, gigabyte MOCA defaults to 100 meg maximum. Once again, not using this for gaming, but simply as a high speed wireless connection between a router (using gig port..NOT WI-fi function) and computer.A satisfied customer.Update: 6 weeks later still going strong and zero dropped connections. Even after several power outages. Have not had to adjust a thing.Weeks later, has never dropped a link or connection. Ordered two more as they were lower in price, and intend to us at a frequent location we go to and take each time. Only two power connections and two Ethernet connections. Use for laptop across room from a wireless router that cant get much with the wi-fi card in it over 120 mbps. Router has gig internet (verified) output so hope to get high speeds in laptop as has gig ethernet card. Saves running a cable 80 feet across floor in large LR/DR ( no way wife would allow). Have high hopes for this setup and will add to this review after trying in several weeks.BTW, I asked manufacturer a question and one of the tech managers saw it and responded same day! Was can you use the “base” unit as an AP for cell phone and indicated just use the password on bottom of unit for a dedicated 5G link (plus the bandwidth of the laptop of course) if desired.Very pleased, 10-24-2021.UPDATE 1-29-2022…initial setup still running fine as never dropped a connection…and has been on continues to stay linked since purchased. Say 3 months..Second group did not perform as well, and could not get to all signal lines and junctions and pre-installed splitters. But ran at the speed of slowest device connected .Highly recommend if running cable not available and works like a charm!Have set up several friends and love it😀UPDATE....After several months still rock steady connection and never once dropped as far as can tell. Still getting full supplied internet speed since installed on day one.Update: 7-15-2022Keeps on impressing me. Pretty much acts like ethernet cable (direct and no losses) for my needs.Changed setup a little from first and now have single transmitter and receiver. But now did away from MOCA for some of my connections and using same receiver but now using the splitter function of receiver so Dell desktop on one port and other port ran to the access point had been using with MOCA. Easily handled this with zero comprised speeds. Eliminated all the MOCA that fed an access point in same room and get full max speed (200 meg) from my Spectrum internet rated 200 meg at source. MOCA had been limited to 60-100 meg due to splitters in walls (condo) that would not allow MOCA 2.5 to operate at this speed.And as far as can tell, since initial install, never dropped any signal compared to MOCA having to be reset every now and then.Love this device and so far has not disappointed me. Just bought a spare NexusLink pair to keep in reserve so as not to even leaving MOCA setups in the way as backup. MOCA served me well…but time to put in boxes should need ever arise.

I live in a pretty densely populated area in a house and I just could not get this thing to work properly for more than a week in the month I've had it. I changed every setting I possibly could in it, my regular internet and my computer and it just did not help for VR. I had one week where the performance was pretty good but the other 3 were just miserable. I'm not sure if its my ISP's fault, this devices, or my own. Speedtest shows I'm getting 600mb download and 25mb Upload which I thought would be enough considering I have friends playing on 2.4ghz WIFI from another room with no complaints. I have one other person in my house and made sure I played when they were sleeping with as many WIFI devices turned off as I could and it made zero difference.I'm Using a Quest 2 with Virtual desktop, and using WIFI to stream to the headset is unplayable despite being 3 feet away from this Access Point and giving myself every advantage I possibly could. I get constant unplayable lag spikes, ping spikes, and microphone glitches. I got constant black bars and screen tearing in my headset before and after using this device no matter what I did. Wi-Fi was a horrible experience and this didn't help at all.I'll use VRchat as an example because its my most played game in VR. Using this Access Point over WIFI, I was getting about 120fps in the home world, and not even close to 100fps in any other world. I would get constant lag spikes, Spacewarping, screen tearing, black bars on the sides etc. Extremely uncomfortable and unplayable. I play for much longer than the Quest 2 battery can sustain me so I ended up tethered to a wire anyway just to keep the thing charged. Switched to a link cable instead of WIFI and I don't even know why WIFI is an option. VRchat looks at minimum twice as good as it ever did over WIFI with a link cable, giving me over 500fps in the home world, and minimum 200fps in other worlds with 40 people in it AND using XSOverlay to watch Twitch streams and YouTube, playing music and using a voice changer through Voicemod while STILL playing VRchat with a 980 TI GPU.If you're looking for performance gains for VR I cant say if any WIFI setup is the answer. I cant believe I wasted a month trying to get WIFI to work when a simple cable quadrupled my performance at minimum.The unit was very easy to setup and mess with settings. I was up and running in probably 10 minutes. I already had my desktop connected to an ethernet cord but I will say this device improved my download speeds by about 20Mb's or so but definitely not worth $100 for that.I'm giving this thing 4 stars when I want to give it 3 but I cant because I honestly cant say if its me, my ISP or it just doesn't work. I'm sure its fine for normal PC/Console online gaming but I never had an issue with those in the first place.Again, If you're looking for massive VR gains, get a link cable and a pulley system if you have to and leave WIFI in the dust. This was a waste in my personal experience but I cant rate it low because I don't know where my true problem lies.

This is my initial review based on using the WB-1750 for several days (2020-07-02 through 2020-070-05). I will post a follow-up around next weekend so I can report longer-term observations.First, some background: I have an existing mesh WiFi system with a router with a satellite unit. The router is downstairs close to where the cable modem services enters the house. This system covers a two-story house where there are WiFi-connected devices upstairs and downstairs as well as a small LAN or wired Ethernet-connected devices upstairs.This mesh WiFi router and satellite do a great job at supporting three always-on computers, several intermittent-use computers, various mobile devices/tablets (iOS and Android), and many Smart devices (light switches, lamps, etc.). In addition to providing the mesh WiFi functionality, the satellite unit also provides Ethernet bridging which is how the upstairs LAN communicates with the router and the Internet.Before I installed the mesh WiFi system I had a mid-range WiFi router which, I found, did not provide consistent coverage for all the WiFi devices. I even experimented with a WiFi Ethernet bridge to support the upstairs LAN. The connection speeds were adequate but the consistency was still poor and I would occasionally have to power-cycle the WiFi router and/or the WiFi Ethernet bridge. This unreliability led me to purchase the mesh WiFi system.The mesh WiFi system solved the consistency issue and provides excellent coverage and high connection speeds which I’ve measured with both Speedtest.net and Fast.com at between 170-190Mbps. My WiFi devices routinely connect at speeds between 30-45Mbps.Thus, the WB-1750 was going into a situation where I already had a solution that was working very well and I would know fairly quick if the WB-1750 wasn't working as well as the existing solution.Having installed the WB-1750 and observed its operation for a few days I can say that the WB-1750 works as advertised. In fact, it does a bit more than advertised as hinted by the review title.Firstly, the advertised feature: Wireless Ethernet BridgingYou need WiFI ethernet bridging if you need to connect a device that only supports wired Ethernet (i.e. it lacks WiFi support) or if you want to take advantage of faster WiFi versions which the device cannot support because the device’s WiFi components cannot be upgraded (as would be the case with a game console).Since WiFi ethernet bridging depends on the WiFi router you have, the consistency of your WiFi connections and the potential speeds you can realize over your WiFi connections is dependent on your WiFi router’s capabilities. Your existing WiFi router will support only those WiFi versions that it was equipped to support when you bought it because most consumer WiFi routers do not have upgradeable WiFi radios.For example, it might only support WiFi A/B/G/N (802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n) whereas current WiFi routers support those types as well as WiFi AC (802.11ac). The WiFi type(s) it supports will limit the maximum speed of the connections it supports.The number of antennas the WiFi router supports is fixed as well and, generally, having more antennas is better than having fewer.Finally, your exsiting WiFi router may lack MU-MIMO which is a feature that specifically allows a WiFi router to support multiple, simultaneous users (the “MU”) using multiple antennas (the “MIMO” which means “multiple-input, multiple-output”). If you have two or more heavy WiFi users in the house, MU-MIMO is recommended.So, if you want to take advantage of newer WiFi versions you would have to replace your WiFi router with a newer unit. This introduces the possibility that that the new WiFi router may provide different support to your existing devices if only because its different from your previous WiFi router and so will have slightly different WiFi performance. This could be due to many issues such as it’s WiFi transmitter power, number of WiFi antennas, type of WiFi antennas (internal vs. external, external standard antennas vs. high-gain antennas), etc.If your existing WiFi provides adequate and consistent coverage but lower speeds, replacing it may put that consistency at risk as well as costing $200 or more.The WB-1750 allows you to keep your existing WiFi router as-is (so everything still works as-is) but support a newer, faster device (like a gaming PC or console) since it allows you to connect it via an Ethernet cable to one of the WB-1750 units. The two WB-1750 units communicate with each other over a dedicated WiFi AC (802.11ac) channel so you get faster speeds supported by newer WiFi as well as a more reliable connection since the dedicated WiFi channel isn't shared with the WiFi provided by your WiFi router. This solves the problem of connecting that new, faster device without having to replace your entire WiFi router set-up.Since the WB-1750 units have two Ethernet ports, you can connect two devices to it—a gaming PC and a gaming console if you happen to have both. At the WiFi router end, the WB-1750 unit connects to the WiFi router via one Ethernet port leaving the second port available for a nearby, Ethernet-connected device.This is where the "a bit more than advertised" comes in.I found that you can connect an Ethernet switch rather than a single device to an Ethernet port on the WB-1750 unit. This allows you to support more than two devices at the same time. Moreover, the two Ethernet ports on the WB-1750 appear to be a two-port network switch as well so any computers/consoles plugged into a connected Ethernet switch can connect to the computer that is connected directly to the WB-1750. This capability isn't mentioned on the packaging nor is it mentioned in the Amazon product listing.The computers on my wired Ethernet LAN have their WiFi turned-off so that they always and only connect over wired Ethernet to the Ethernet switch. By moving the connection of my Ethernet switch from my mesh WifI satellite unit to the WB-1750, my entire LAN became dependent on the WB-1750 to provide the connection (the WiFi ethernet bridge) to the downstairs WB-1750 unit that is connected to my mesh WiFi router. And it worked seamlessly.I am not a heavy gamer but I do play a few games as well as make use of cloud file storage, streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.), torrent-based file-sharing, etc. I spread these uses over several computers so it’s important that whatever device I’m using to provide the Ethernet bridge function support multiple devices at the same time.My testing of the WB-1750 was my similar to my normal daily-use:* The torrent server supporting multiple, low-speed connections 24/7.* Playing an Internet-aware game on my PC. I primarily play “Rust” which isn’t too demanding of a high-speed connection but does require a reliable/consistent connection.* Watching YouTube/streaming video on my Mac. I did this for my initial testing while playing Rust to just load-up the network with constant demand.* Cloud service file-transfers to multiple Macs and PC (these happen at all hours since I have shared folders that other people use).I would ocassionally run a internet speed test using both Speedtest.net and Fast.com and saw download speeds between 120Mbps and 190Mbps. Upload speeds were between 8Mbps and 9MBps. These reported speeds are the same as I usually see when I use the mesh WiFi satellite unit so the WB-1750 doing the job I needed it to do.It's worth pointing out that the mesh WiFi satellite unit is still "on" and being used by various devices in my WiFi network (e.g. Smart devices, my iPhone, etc.) and there does not appear to be any interference despite the WB-1750 units and the mesh WiFi units being within 1 to 2 feet of one another both upstairs and downstairs.One subtle benefit the WB-1750 provides that I did not have with the mesh WiFi satellite unit is that the WB-1750’s connections occur over it’s own WiFi network so the network traffic going through the WiFi ethernet bridge does not affect the speeds/connections over the other, WiFi network in my home.That is all for now. I will leave the WB-1750 connected as it is and just use my computers like I normally would. As mentioned at the start, I will post a follow-up around next weekend so I can report longer-term observations.

No huge complaints to begin with other than that the interface was a little hard to get to due to having to find the specific IP and the settings which feels slightly lackluster. I'm getting quite good and stable connection with both my phone and Quest 2 connected and the IP portforwarding works perfectly from my main network so that's a plus.The reason I'm not giving it a better score is because it was advertised with "wave-2" spec which should enable 160Mhz wide channels but it only goes up to 80Mhz.EDIT: the "wave-2" claim does not seem to exist anymore. And on another note the performance seem to be degraded compared to when I first bought it about a year ago, why this is I can't tell but average latency have gone up to above 70ms when it was below 40ms when I got it.So another star goes

WiFi bridges/extenders have become more common in house-holds to improve performance and reliability with streaming and gaming. The NexusLink Gaming Bridge is an addition to that line up that comes in an incredibly well-designed package.The most important question those interested in purchasing this device are asking is, how is the performance? As attached in my review is a comparison of connecting an Xbox One X. On the left is a typical wifi set up, you can see that wireless strength is severely degraded, with a severe loss in speed, and an increase in latency due to distance between the gaming console and router. On the right, you can see that while using the Wireless bridge, you obtain a tremendous speed increase and decrease in latency.What does this mean?While using your average WiFi set up, downloading and streaming is much slower. You will also face lag spikes and instability in connection (due to low wireless strength), creating issues while gaming. This is incredibly frustrating to those frequently playing online games. I have faced scenarios where my game will "freeze" due to lag, ending with a loss once the connection restabilizes.While using the NexusLink bridge, you have a much more reliable connection due to a priority of the bridges communicating with each other. Download speeds are drastically improved which helps in downloading large updates (frequently seen in games such as Call of Duty, Fortnite, Apex Legends, etc) while also minimizing lag spikes due to a more reliable connection. In addition, the bridge can act as an access point which allows the device to rebroadcast WiFi signals in weaker strength areas of your household.Another note I like about the NexusLink bridge is the low-profile design. I have a router from a competing company that runs overly hot and takes up a larger amount of space. The design of the NexusLink bridge is slim, which makes it easy to find a location to install or move around if needed. I also find the matte black inside contrasting with the glossy white outside very pleasing to the eyes.An area of improvement I would like to see is the ability to disable the LED indicators. That was a feature I found useful on my previous router. I also would like to see a greater amount of ethernet ports for those that want to use the wireless bridge as an ethernet hub. In a future model, the implementation of WiFi 6 would also help with future proofing for new devices.Otherwise, I am very happy with this device and am looking forward for using it as a daily driver.