TP-Link RE705X review: Warranty and support It’s well hidden in the experimental Tether Lab area though. There’s a cool add-on that can interrogate your LAN, looking for security weaknesses called Wi-Fi Detective. It can’t extend a Wi-Fi 6E 6GHz signal, however. It adds TP-Link’s Adaptive Path Selection system that picks the best route for the data to travel. The RE705X can spread a Wi-Fi network across unconnected parts of a home by using many of the latest Wi-Fi 6 tricks, like MUMIMO, beamforming and 1024 QAM modulation to boost speed. Despite having lots of cooling vents around its perimeter, the RE705X was one of the hottest extenders I’ve seen or felt at 115 degrees Fahrenheit. If you pay the national average of 15 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity, it will cost an estimated $6.30 a year to use the RE705X. Over my two weeks with the extender, it easily handled emails, 4K videos and music, had a range of 110 extra feet and used 4.8-watts of power. With the receiving test system set up a floor above, the RE705X yielded 255.5Mbps of throughput, still ahead of the other plug-in extenders but short of the larger EAX80’s 320.0Mbps. While that’s ahead of the other plug-in extenders, it is 22 percent off the EAX80’s 301.9Mbps under the same conditions.

When I moved the test notebook 40 feet farther away, the throughput dropped to 248.1Mbps. With the extender 40-feet from the Asus AXE-11000 router and the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro test system another 10 feet farther away, the RE705X delivered 528.0Mbps, several times what the other plug-in extenders we tested delivered and over a third more throughput than the EAX80’s 358.0Mbps. It has the power to put the LAN where it belongs – everywhere. The TP-Link RE705X extender pushed wireless data into previously unconnected areas of my home and did so with excellent speed.

Happily, the LED lights are not particularly bright and can be turned on or off as well as scheduled with the company’s Tether app. A blinking red signal means it’s offline and needs some attention. The last LED is a crude signal strength meter that glows blue when everything is connected, while solid red means it has a weak signal.

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