TP-Link N450 WiFi Router - Wireless Internet Router for Home (TL-WR940N)

I purchased this router a week ago, so I cannot comment about the longevity of it. I'm out of my element when it comes to IT since I don't really know what I'm doing or what to look for when it comes to IT-related devices, network, etc., but I took a chance on this since the reviews were pretty good overall. I was worried about the many poor reviews and the chance that I'd get one that didn't work, but I haven't been disappointed. I had a Cisco Linksys router that needed to be replaced which is why I bought this one. My connection is SO much better with this router. I would constantly get buffering and connection problems with Netflix and Plex, and my wifi status on both my laptop and Surface would switch to "Limited" pretty often. Even browsing on my phone was a pain and often I'd have to turn off the wifi. It got much, much worse over the last month. For now, though only a week old, this router has been great. The set up was quick and easy. I did it myself (and I'm not super tech savvy) within five minutes or so. The only problem I had with the set up was the cable that came with it; it didn't work. I swapped it with one I had lying around and it worked just fine. I was able to easily log into to the router using the internet and set up a static IP for my NAS (with A LOT of help from Google searches!) and that's worked well so far. I had no problem connecting all my devices and I have not experienced any problems with my connection. I have been able to watch things on Netflix with no buffering, no stopping for "internet connection" issues, no problems whatsoever. My download speed is also much faster. My phone can say connected to my wifi and I can browse quickly with no issues. It is seriously night and day with my connection. I understand it seems like this router is fantastic when it was actually the old one was just poor from the start, but for the money this router seems to be pretty great. I'm assuming this router acts like a router is supposed to so I have no complaints thus far. Once I've had it for a few months, I'll post an edit to this review stating whether it still works well or not at all as some people have claimed.

NEWSFLASH: An average computer user does NOT need to spend $200 on a wireless router! We do computer service and sales, and we constantly are asked what we recommend in wireless routers. Back in the day, almost all routers were under $100. Today, things have gone completely crazy! This unit, like most other routers, can handle up to 100 devices with ease, no drops, and little interference right out of the box. I set this one up in our busy store to test it in less than two minutes. Between wired and wireless devices, all sharing 100 MBPS cable internet service, I had 73 devices simultaneously connected and all doing something online with no noticeable drops in performance. Even our network specialist was impressed with the TL-WR940N performance. The range is admirable but not crazy. We connected wirelessly to devices up to 40 feet away through two walls with metal studs. If you have a large 3,000 square foot home with multiple stories (like ours), chances you're going to need a repeater even with that overpriced super range router. The FCC regulates the amount of power routers are allowed to transmit, so don't believe the hype. Yes, some produce a little stronger signal, but it's negligible at best. Bandwidth-wise, gamers are always complaining about lag (although it's usually a lame excuse for poor performance), so gamers should be hardwired. Your Smart TVs should also be hardwired if you intend to run the tiny bit of 4K content currently available. Honestly, I can't see the difference in 1080 and 4K, and we have Samsung's SUHD 4K Quantum Dot TV. A good wireless signal is enough to run 1080p Netflix streams, and this router does that just fine, transmitting about 30 feet with no drops through a complete episode of Better Call Saul while simultaneously streaming Pandora, Spotify, and lord knows whatever else those crazy techs were doing at the time. For under $30, this is a terrific deal. If you're concerned about reliability as poorly described in some of the negative reviews, buy two, and you'll still be well ahead of the game. We're a week into hours with occasionally heavy 24x7 usage, and it's performing flawlessly. Just bought a second WR940N that I will use at home - this will be our third router (the cable modem itself is a router that connects the first floor, a Linksys runs the kid's rooms upstairs with the gamer hard-wired, and this TP-Link will supply wireless to our outside patio, which is very important to the boss. Happy wife, happy life.

I have had this router 23 months. It has been a bargain router that has performed well. Easy to navigate the menus. No guest network option, but what do you expect for $28? It has been rock solid, until the last month. The wifi drops every 6-10 minutes. If you wait 30 seconds, it comes back. Naturally, I remembered I had a 2 year warranty! Warranty support has been somewhere between Purgatory and Idiocracy. I explain the problem, and send screenshots of the problem. They ask more questions. They do not understand basic router terminology. Being that the router is $28, it is pretty much disposable. I should have just bought a new one and skipped customer support. Looking to replace it with an ASUS router, as I can't let these open-mouth-breathing tech support guys win.

This is a GREAT Wi-Fi router especially for its price of $30! I've had at least a half a dozen different Wi-Fi routers in the past. About 6 months ago I upgrade my cable modem and Wi-Fi router to a combo modem/Wi-Fi router - a $149 Motorola SBG6580 DOCSIS 3.0 so I could upgrade my Comcast speed to 57MB. This worked very well but on the other side of my house the Wi-Fi signal would degrade a little, I'd lose a bar or two, some speed and it would be noticeable on occasion streaming HD videos. This was further complicated by numerous Wi-Fi routers across all 2.4Ghz channels in my neighborhood. I tried a pair of TRENDnet Powerline adapters for a direct connection but they were worse. Since this was cheap and had good reviews I gave it a try. I plugged it in to a port on my existing router, downloaded the latest firmware/updated it and just sat it a few feet away from my Wi-Fi router. I tested it on two smart Wi-Fi enabled TV's, one with a Chromecast, a tablet and my notebook. In all cases there was visible improvement, one or two extra bars and faster internet speed tests on my tablet and notebook at far distances. I have a free program named inSSIDer that I got off the web. It will show you all visible Wi-Fi signals in your area, their strength, what channels they are broadcasting on, rank them and assorted information. I left this router set at all of the default auto selections and did not choose a channel. Most Wi-Fi routers broadcast on a single channel that overlap the frequencies on either side (1.5 channels each way) of the channel for a spectrum of 20. Some router can broadcast on two channels for a spectrum of 40. BUT in the US routers are supposed to automatically kick down to 20 when they encounter competing signals (like I have in my neighborhood). This router does not kick down and broadcasts on channel 3 & 7 for a very wide and stable signal.

Update: I was away, we had a severe thunderstorm in the area, power was out. I monitor my house remotely and thought unless I was physically there, everything would be off. The TP-Link went back online, the Netgear didn't even respond. All the cameras, Z-wave house controls went back on with the TP-Link. I never had such luck with the previous Netgear. I strongly recommend this inexpensive and work great router. It is a bit early for rating since I tested only for 1 day. I may come back and give 1 star if it is dead after 1 week. However, for the time being, if you are looking for basic, low-price (the emphasis is low-price), this one is hard to beat. I used to be a tad leery of second tier network equipment makers like TP Link, but the it improves and the product is getting to be quite decent. There are two features that aren't great, but one shouldn't complain for this price: 1- it is not very responsive to admin access. oo many times it gives a page to tp-link website because the http server part doesn't work. A bit frustrating that one has to turn on, off, or reset. Also, it doesn't allow more than 1 admin log in at a times. The problem is that it doesn't detect the admin log in is broken, hence should allow open another log in to reboot. 2- It doesn't have DHCP list for wired connection. This is a real problem for me as I use both wifi and Ethernet. I have to use other network software to find out the IP's of wired devices. Other than those two, for a minimum typical user, this one is perhaps as good as any in terms of bang for the buck. I purchased it only as a backup and an aggregate access point, but it impresses me enough to let it be the main wifi router and relegate the other router to be the access point. One last thing about speed: I tested it side-by-side with a Netgear and a Linksys. As the other two are older models (1 year or more), I expected TP-link to be better with the newer 450 Mbs protocol. It is indeed proven better from 20% to 35% depending on location of my laptop within the house. So, again, it is a decent one.

Potential DD-WRT users, I received hardware version 2.1, which I verified to have the Atheros AR9341-DL3A wireless chipset inside. The storage chip is an ESMT M13S2561616A, which is 4MB. The WR940N v2.1 that I received shows in its own web interface that it is "Hardware Version: WR940N v2/WR941ND v5 00000000" After researching for a while now, I am unable to find a version of DD-WRT that can successfully flash to this router via the stock firmware's web interface. I have tried all the tricks for flashing via the web interface that the internet had to offer. I have not tried flashing via serial connector. If you want dd-wrt, but want something cheap, then I suggest this router's little brother: the WR841N. Most hardware versions of the cheaper TP-LINK TL-WR841N ($20 right now) are supported by at least a beta of dd-wrt (Router Database -> Other Downloads tab). I got dd-wrt working on hardware version 9.0 easily once I found the betas (though with 20 MHz channel width/150 Mbps link speed only). It's not a 3x3 Tx/Rx, but if you want a cheap, non-gigabit, 802.11n wireless router for dd-wrt, that one is potentially a good choice. Otherwise, if you want a hassle-free dd-wrt experience, consider something with a supported Broadcom chipset. The ASUS RT-N12 is less than $40 right now, looks good, is supported by dd-wrt, and uses Broadcom. If you can afford something closer to $80, or if you need gigabit LAN ports, look no further than the ASUS RT-N16... though if you're willing to pay $80 for a router, then you're probably not reading this review. ;-) If you need performance, then a refurbished ASUS RT-N16 has good value. **** **** **** **** Stock Firmware The stock firmware seems to have a lot of features that are more advanced than many other wireless router vendors'. However, one shortcoming I noticed right away is that you can only use numbers, letters, hyphen, and underscore for the router's admin password- no special characters! I especially like that each settings subsection has detailed information in a frame on the right that describes what each setting does. In addition to the basic stuff, here are some other things I noticed. There is a QoS engine labeled as "Bandwidth Control" with customizable rules. There is built-in support for several dynamic DNS solution providers. You can run ping and traceroutes from the web interface. In the basic security section, there are options for SPI firewall, VPN passthrough options, and ALG options. Under advanced security, there are a few options to protects against DoS attacks by filtering different types of packet floods. For wireless, there are settings for things such as transmit power, beacon interval, group key timeout interval, and channel width, among others. Range seems okay, though wireless range will always depend on many, many variables.

I am not happy because its cheap. I am happy because; 1. Easiest set up: Took less than 10 minutes to make it up and running WITHOUT CD. I recommend not to use its supplied software CD. Its way easier and clean installation without it. 2. Range: I compared my previous TP-Link WR 642G link range with this 940N, which was way superior. I comfortably captured wifi signal bars at 50 feet on my Thinkpad and on my Nexus 4. I opened yahoo in IE (Thinkpad) and yahoo in Chrome (Nexus 4). Both opened in a blink of eye in no time. Meaning I tasted to separate browsers running on full OS and a mobile OS. Speed and browsing experience was consistent. 3. Speed: I captured speedtest.net result screen on a hard wire connection on comcast which was 52.44mb/s(DS) and 11.37mb/s(US). Captured results were 52.35mb/s(DS) and 10.88(US) after hooking this router. So speed was consistent here. I like to mentioned that I have DoCIS3.0 modem motorola SB 6141. 4. Number of devices: I ran Mac, Thinkpad, 2 ipads, Nexus 4 and an iPhone same time running you tube. All ran smooth video with no streaming load. 5. TL Customer Support: It took less than 2 minutes to get TP-Link tech support on phone. Easy conversation and was short. All I say is reliable. I read 100s of reviews of dozens of make and models. I was in a market for reliable router. This was an upgrade to my 8 years old modem (Dlink 202 DoCIC 2.0) and router (WR 642G). I bought new pair of technology modem (motorola SB 6141) and this router. Makes sense when you compare apples to apples and bananas to bananas. I didn't want to review this router with DoCIS 2.0 modem. Bottom line is, it served my purpose and worth the value (I am not talking dollar value which is already unbeatable to put smile on your face at this price).

Bought a TL-WR940N, TL-WA901ND, and TL-WA801ND and they do NOT work well together. I purchased all TP-Link products because I was hoping that it would mean they would work well together. Nope. The Router: I can connect to the router, but most of the time the internet connection is really spotty, and half the time the internet connection drops. the Router is in the DMZ zone of the cable modem's router. The room I'm trying to access from is directly above the router. The Repeaters: The two repeaters are about 30-35 feet from the router. One is placed so that two wifi cameras can connect to the network. When I connect to the repeaters, I know I am connected because I can see the cameras on the network, but most of the time I am unable to access the router (via IP address), let alone the internet. Ironically, the wifi cameras' connections are solid, but the repeater-router connection is spotty. I've reconfigured I don't know how many times, with reboots, power cycles, etc etc ad nauseam. This setup is essentially unusable for me. I'm sure there's someone out there who's gotten it working, but I think I lost a couple days off my life from the frustration of finding that one magical combination of resyncs, reboots, power cycles, and alignment of the planets to get this to work. I have a computer science degree and even took a networking project course at the time so I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what I'm doing. I guess it takes a MS or PhD to figure this thing out. These are actually the first items I'll actually be returning to Amazon because they don't work. The only other items I've returned were wrong items or flat out broken.

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Its a good basic router. Decent security and routing options. Good for small home/office use. Works with up to 7 devices streaming Netflix simultaneously. Starts struggling after more than 7 devices.

De tp link w 940 en is een simpele router/ accesspoint die simpel is te installeren. Werkt perfect, goede zend sterkte. Ik gebruik hem als accesspoint. Ook mogelijk om verschillende apparaten bekabeld aan te sluiten ( 3 poorten) enige nadeel wat verouderde beveiliging. Updaten via tp link site goed.

Je l'ai acheté pour compléter ma box (trop souvent échangée !) pour avoir des adresses fixe pour mon Jeedom. Rien à reprocher.

I will divide the review in 17 stages. My house is about 1500 SqFt. And has 2BHK in a Single floor. 1. My plan is YOU Broadband (PPPoE connection) of 50 MBPS DL/UL 1800 GB FOR 3 Months. 2. Consider only 2.4 Ghz single band wifi router. 3. Prefer this only if connection speed upto 100 MBPS. 4. If someone's speed geting limited to 10MBPS, it's not router fault, ask the technician to connect to gigabit port or any other lan port on junction box. 5. Donot change any duplex settings, as it is not required. 6. It has MIMO technology, thus has better range than tplink 300N anyday. 7. The Archer C20 model has less range than this 450N model, also it has disconnection issues due to multiple 2.4/5ghz support. 8. My WAN cable is Cat 6E cable with two pairs(4 wires) lan cable and not 8 cable but my wire supports it. 9.lso, if anyone has any issues can contact me. 10. I also used dlink 750 819IN, it did not connect to PPPoE connection. 11. This 450N tplink has no issues with PPPoE, Static/Dynamic IP and also has auto detect and auto detect features. 12. There is other features such as guest wifi and bandwidth control. 13. Also, as only 2.4 ghz there is no disconnection issues due to no dual bnad support. 14. I had exchanged various routers due to PPPoE issues and other problems but this is the best one I would suggest this router for everyone. 15. Protip - keep connection settings to connect automatically or manually with 0 ideal time(Both works). 16. Additionally - good wifi signals everywhere due to MIMO technology, easy setup process and I did not talk with tech support yet. 17. Also, update to latest firmware available as of August 2020.