| Hawking HWREN1 effectively doubles the operating distance of your entire wireless network. Whether it is an area in your home that has limited or no wireless coverage or a warehouse in your office, the Hawking wireless-300N range extender takes the signal from your wireless access point and retransmits it at a higher rate. Simply place the range extender halfway between your wireless access point and wireless trouble spot. The HWREN1 is the only wireless repeater on the market that supports most wireless 802.11b/g/n networks and devices so you never have to worry whether the wireless network at your home or office will work with the range extender. The HWREN1 also features a new software setup wizard for hassle-free installation. To setup the range extender, you simply load the setup CD and scan for a network to extend. Package contents include one hi-gain wireless-300N range extender, one power adapter, one CD with PC setup wizard, one RJ-45 cable, and installation guide. |
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 Beats Lynksys Hands down |
| Review Date: September 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Leib Lurie, Troy, OH USA |
I needed to extend wireless range to my back porch in my old plaster walled home (and plaster has metal lathe in the walls that acts like a cone of silence for RF signals)not to mention the blockage from leaded glass windows!
If you need to extend your range too, you can try these steps:
1- Buy a new lynksys N+ router- Nope.
2- return to store.
3- purchase the lynksys extender- spent 3 frustrating hours with Indian chat support - to no avail; dozens of re-boots, paper clip resets and obtuse MS-DOS commands. she diagnosed it as a failed unit.
4- return to store
5- exchange for new extender, drive home
6- spend another fruitless 90 minutes with tech support to be told. gee, guess the lynksys extender doesn't work with a Lynksys router.
7- return to store
8- go to amazon buy Hawking extender.
9- plug in, click 'next' a few times. voila. coverage to the back porch and even the pool deck.
10- relax with mac by pool.
My suggestion... skip steps 1-7. Go with the Hawking. |
Easy Set Up...Works Great!
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| Review Date: March 31, 2009 |
| Reviewer: JUstme, USA |
I live in a multi level cinder block and stucco house that creates havoc with my Wi-Fi reception.
My past experiences have all been with Linksys and spending hours on the phone with their customer (in the Phillipines?)support and ending up frustrated. So when my Linksys Range Extender died I was dreading setting up another. Well I did a lot of research and decided to try this unit. All I can say is unbelievable!!! I took it out of the box and followed the Quick Installation Guide and Voila...success. I now have 3 and 4 bars on the other ends of the house.
Oh...one thing to not forget, once you get it set up, remember to scan for available networks and select the one you just created. It is that simple. Now I have better Wi-Fi reception than I have ever experienced in the past. |
Increased our signal!
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| Review Date: January 4, 2010 |
| Reviewer: ~Z~, |
To be quite honest I was a little hesitant on purchasing the Hawking HWREN1 Hi-Gain Wireless-300N Range Extender after reading most of all the reviews. Many have mentioned that the installation process has be be manually inputted and that worried me since I am by far NOT a "techie". I can follow instructions but I can not "dissect" or troubleshoot when an installation goes bad.
I currently use the D-Link Wireless DIR-615 N Router, 4-Port 10/100 Switch, 2 Antennas, Draft 802.11n as my wireless router. I own a two-story level split level home and was not receiving a strong signal in the farthest corner bedrooms. On a good day the signal would be 2 bars. I decided after reading so many reviews on many different wireless extenders, I would bite the bullet and get this one. I prepared myself by printing out several of the reviews which gave step by step explanations how to install it manually. When the unit arrived I just looked at it for several minutes trying to debate if I should try to install it myself or call a professional. I had to give it a shot. I put aside the CD installation software as many suggested and attempted to install it manually. I can not recall why or what I did at the time, but I was only able to connect to the "Local" network and not the internet. I tried to go to the internet login page on my browser but it would not connect. I repeatedly retraced my steps and could not figure out why it would not work. I finally decided to insert the installation CD. IT WORKED! I followed the instructions on the CD very carefully, found my network and it only took about 8 minutes to have the unit up and running. Unplugged it and relocated it to the farthest bedroom in the house and it actually improved the signal to the best possible range...5 bars! The signal is constant and does not drop at all. I also want to add that I did not have to go to the login page to make any changes to the configuration (i.e set channel). Thank goodness I did not have to make any changes, because with my luck I would of changed something and it probably would of stopped working.
Maybe Hawkings realized that there were many problems when the unit first came out and since so many voiced their concerns and opinions, they have updated their installation software to be much more user friendly. I want to thank everyone who wrote very informative and helpful reviews. I am extremely happy with my purchase and would highly recommend it. |
Works great with Linksys 600N router
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| Review Date: March 3, 2009 |
| Reviewer: SureWhyNot, Batavia, IL USA |
| I have over a dozen things on the network, from PC's, Tivo's, blackberry's etc. We were getting low reception down to 29% on the edges of the house. I put in this range expander and the connection in that spot went to 93% from 29%. So day one, this configured easy and worked great with my Linksys 600N router. I just ordered another one for the other side of the house. Note: You do have to tell each device this new connection is available. Once that was done things were great. I noticed a few reviews that I wondered if they told the device to connect to the range extender or not. |
Range extender that works as advertised
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| Review Date: January 14, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Edward Wiles Jr., Chicago, IL |
| My son was having problems getting his X-box online, despite the assistance of tech support. Finally we decided to test the wireless signal strength upstairs - the Apple Airport Extreme is downstairs at the other end of the house. We found the data download speed was so poor he couldn't establish a connection so we went looking for a range extender for the signal. The Hawking was simple to set up, plugged into a socket closer to the X-Box it provided plenty of throughput to get the gaming online functionality working. Price was very reasonable and the unit is nice enough looking that my wife hasn't even objected to it. Overall very satisfied with the setup, functioning and look at a reasonable price. |
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