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STRONG AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 dual-band repeater with two adjustable antennas review

A Wi-Fi 6 repeater whose title turns a class name into a rate — AX3000 Mbit/s — and which offers an access point mode without naming a socket.

The bottom line The band arithmetic is published and the chassis is not. It is the only Wi-Fi 6 repeater here with rated antennas and no named socket, which makes the access point mode in its bullets the thing to confirm before buying.

On the listing

Wi-Fi 6 for stable connections on 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz for streaming, gaming and home working; AX3000 with up to 3000 Mbit/s, made of 574 Mbit/s at 2.4 GHz and 2402 Mbit/s at 5 GHz, for several devices at once without interruption; a smart LED system to help choose the best position and a WPS button for an immediate connection; flexible use as a repeater extending the network or as a new access point; and two 5 dBi external adjustable antennas for even signal strength and reach, backwards compatible with all common routers.

The unit that is not a unit

The title reads AX3000 Mbit/s. AX3000 is a class name; Mbit/s is a unit of rate. Putting them together turns a label into a measurement, and the label was produced by adding two theoretical radio peaks — 574 and 2402 — and rounding the 2976 upward. Both real figures are in the second bullet.

Two antennas, rated

5 dBi, external, adjustable. Most repeaters in this family carry four antennas at 3 dBi, and this one carries two at a higher gain. What neither arrangement publishes is a stream count, which is what would let either be compared properly.

The mode without a socket

The fourth bullet offers a new access point. An access point is fed by a cable. No cable socket is named anywhere in the title or the bullets, so what would feed it is unstated.

Before ordering

If the plan is to run it as an access point rather than a repeater, ask the seller whether it has an Ethernet socket at all. The mode is advertised; the connector it depends on is not.

Availability

No store we queried had a live offer for it the day this page was written.

In the German, British, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon catalogues with no live offer against it: the reference exists, nobody is filling it.

The American Amazon store returned nothing at all, so the buy button there opens a search in that country rather than a page that would not load.

Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.

Where it holds up, and where it stops

Strengths

  • Publishes both band rates, so the twenty-four Mbit/s of rounding in the badge is visible on the page
  • States two external adjustable antennas with a gain figure of 5 dBi, which most repeaters at this level leave unrated
  • Names a smart LED system for choosing the position and a WPS button for the connection, both of which are the practical half of a repeater

Compromises

  • The title writes AX3000 Mbit/s, which treats a class name as a unit of speed
  • An access point mode is offered and no Ethernet socket is named anywhere, and the mode is defined by the cable that feeds it
  • Two antennas is the smallest count in this family, against four on most of the unbranded units here

Specifications

Wi-Fi generationWi-Fi 6 — stated in the title and in the first bullet
IEEE designationNot published on the listing — five bullets cover the generation, the rates, the setup, the two modes and the antennas, and no 802.11 letter pair appears among them
Stated class figureAX3000 — stated, split as 574 Mbit/s at 2.4 GHz and 2402 Mbit/s at 5 GHz, which come to 2976, so the badge rounds up by 24. The title prints the class name with an Mbit/s unit after it, which a class name is not
Band planTwo radios — stated: 2.4 GHz at 574 Mbit/s and 5 GHz at 2402 Mbit/s, described as usable at the same time by several devices
Stream countNot published on the listing — both band rates are given and no stream figure appears for either radio
Plug-in or desktop formNot published on the listing — two external adjustable antennas are described and no bullet says whether the body plugs into a socket or stands on a surface
Ethernet port countNot published on the listing — no Ethernet socket is named in the title or in any bullet, on a unit that offers an access point mode
Port speedNot published on the listing — with no socket named, none is given a speed
Access point modeYes — stated: the unit either extends an existing network or creates a new access point for maximum stability
Amazon referenceB0GW9RHQ1H (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN9120137872910

The questions that come up before an order

Is AX3000 a figure in Mbit/s?

No. It is a class name whose digits happen to be close to a sum expressed in Mbit/s — here 2976, the two published band rates added together. Writing the unit after the class name treats a label as a measurement. The underlying figures are on the page and they are the ones to read.

What do two antennas cost against four?

Fewer antennas usually means fewer spatial streams and a less shapeable pattern. Neither the stream count nor a pattern is published here, so what the difference amounts to on this particular unit cannot be worked out from the page. The gain figure of 5 dBi is higher than the 3 dBi on the four-antenna units in this family.

Every price named in a summary was read on the date that review carries. What a shop asks today is shown beside the product, and it moves.