Amped Wireless A/V Net Connect (AV3000)

• Great for connecting your Internet-Ready Blu-ray players, game consoles, smart televisions, media players, set top boxes and other audio and video devices to your home WiFi network for Internet access
• Connects up to 5 Wired A/V Devices Connect up to 5 wired A/V devices directly to the A/V Net Connect
• Connect any WiFi enabled A/V devices to the A/V Net Connect for a stronger, faster link to your home WiFi network.
• You're in control! Smart security features allow you to restrict access to specific users, set a daily time schedule for when Internet access is available and when it is not.
• Universal Compatibility : The A/V Net Connect works with most 2.4GHz 802.11b/g or n wireless routers and WiFi networks
• Fast Performance for HD Streaming : The A/V Net Connect features a 300Mbps 802.11n wireless bandwidth channel for streaming HD media from your media center to your home network*
• Simple Setup the Smart Setup Wizard connects the A/V Net Connect to your home Wi-Fi network in minutes. Simply enter the setup URL, scan for your wireless network, select it and you're done!

I will make this short and sweet. I have bought 3 of these things. The first one didn't work. I returned it after being on the phone with the Amped Wireless people, and my internet service provider (Surewest Broadband), and having a service technician come out and look at it. They all guessed that the unit was faulty/bad, so I returned it and ordered a replacement. The second one worked (go figure). I recently ordered a third one, because I wanted to add an access point to another room. The reason I wanted THESE particular wireless repeaters, is because they ALSO have Ethernet ports. That allows older devices (like 1st and 2nd generation blu-ray players) that are capable of going online only with a wired connection, to still work.

The 3rd one didn't work either, and, as an added bonus -it knocked my 2nd one (which had been working up to that point) offline, and I couldn't get it back online after that (must have been a fluke that I got it connected at all in the first place). The symptoms for the units not working are their inability to STAY connected to the network. They will connect, and then disconnect, over and over again. After the 3rd one KO'd the 2nd one, I called Amped and tried to get help. I left a message because it was after hours. Days later, I was tired of waiting for them to call me back, so I called my ISP. We tried *EVERYTHING* to get them working (three cheers for Surewest, by the way, their 24x7 tech support was AWESOME helping me work through this). After messing with what channel the router was on, and various other settings, we final stumbled across the fact that the security mode the router was set on, affected whether or not the Amped Wireless Repeater could connect or not. The repeater was able to connect, and stay connected, in WEP mode, and also WPA-mixed mode (but not the most current WPA2 mode).

Now that we have monkeyed with literally all of the settings, and rebooted everything and got them all to connect, I am happy. But -it was a *GIANT* hassle. I work with technology for a living, so I was fairly comfortable messing with these things. Additionally, my ISP locks me out of my router, and only they can mess with it remotely -which can be irritating, but also means a professional is changing the settings. I cannot even imagine how a non-technically inclined person would handle buying the repeater, and having their home network set on WPA2, and not being able to connect the repeater to the network. They certainly wouldn't know how to log into their router and change security level settings. I imagine, that, like me, they would send it back as broken. Amped, when I talked to them, never mentioned the security settings on the router. The only thing they wanted to try was port forwarding, which, when we did do so with the ISP, didn't solve the issue.

So, there you have it. When the device works, it is pretty awesome. But getting it to the point where it is working can be a chore. If yours works right out of the box with your network, then bump my review up to 4 stars. Otherwise, the 3 star rating stands.

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While upgrading my home theater receiver I knew I had to finally bring a strong Internet connection into my media room, but pulling wire was going to be way too much hassle, so I went looking for a reliable wireless n bridge router. After researching a number of products from brands I was familiar with, I came across the Amped Wireless AV3000. I'd never heard of the company before, but the reviews were as strong (stronger) as any I'd read and the price was very reasonable, so I bought one. I'm so glad I did--it rocks! Set-up was easy, save for needing to access the unit by the IP address as the URL didn't work for me. This must be fairly common as it is clearly explained in the set up instructions. Once past that, setup was a breeze and I was up and running in no time. I now have my new receiver (Marantz SR7005--totally awesome!!!), my Oppo Blu-Ray and my Tivo HD all wired to the AV3000 and everything works great. In the past when streaming Netflicks through Tivo using the Tivo wireless g connection we had to suffer through numerous pauses during the first fifteen minutes or so as the movie downloaded, even at a less than ideal resolution. With the AV3000, even the highest res streaming flies without a hitch. Sweet. I highly recommend this bridge to anyone looking for a reasonable cost, effective solution to getting wired connections in locations that are hard to pull wire to. You won't regret it.

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Not only does this function as an access point to my home wifi (my wireless adapter card kept constantly dropping connection), this will increase range to your home network by at least 70 feet. In my room (where the av connect is) i used to get3 bars, now i have full 5 bars of signal.

#1 reason why you should get this, Because I am using it mainly to connect my desktop, the ethernet connection made it i do not have to install any drivers or anything else, just plug in the ethernet cable and youre good to go! its as simple as that, upon first use, you set up the name, and whether or not to use the av connect as a wireless repeater.

You can use any basic cat5 or cat 6 cable because maximum speed for wireless N right now is 300mbps so a 1gbps cable is not needed.

Even though my router rarely has any problems, its nice to know that amped wireless will "self heal" the connection, meaning it will constantly try to reconnect if connection is ever dropped.

Keep note, it is much smaller than i expected it to be, probably half the size of a normal router, but it packs a punch!it can be mounted on a wall or has a stand so it can be vertical.

the 2 antannaes can be replaced with more powerful ones, but the until itself should already suffice, as the av connect amplifies its signals with a 100mw low noise amp i believe, ( i might be wrong on the exact wattage).

You can control how big of a wireless field the unit emits from max to none at all which is nice if you have a small house or if you dont want the feeling of 100% wifi signal pulsing through your body.

Ive had this for 2 weeks now and i love it, literally 0 issues whatsoever. sure its 100 bucks but id rather spend it knowing i dont have to worry about my internet connection again rather than having to frustrate over a crappy $50 that keeps dropping the connection in the middle of netflix.

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Edit: I did receive a replacement unit and my problem was fixed. There are still several buggy things within the firmware and I wouldn't recommend this product.

This device does not do what it is marketed to do. With the latest firmware I am unable to stay connected to my access point for more than a day. (This was corrected by forcing my Wireless Router to a static channel, instead of the auto function).

This device also drops it's configuration on a regular basis. I then have to connect a laptop via Ethernet and re-configure the device again. This is very inconvenient since I don't normally have a PC connected to it, only AV equipment.

Their use of DNS forwarding in their interface is a horrible idea. Overall their web interface is pretty bad. I've worked on enterprise level networking gear for eleven years. Take my advice, small home and business users; stay far away from this product.

To my own discredit I misunderstood something about the product. This doesn't play into my review score but it should be helpful for others. The Amped Wireless makes the claim that the AV3000 can also act as a wireless repeater of sorts. For a proper repeater to work it would need two separate wireless cards. This device does not. It is using an embedded linux and just creates a software based AP which then routes you via the same wireless modem to your access point (which is providing internet access). The problem with this is that you now have two APs on the same channel in the same close proximity. If you know anything about wireless you know that you should have your APs on dissimilar channels. Because they wanted a good list of features without the added hardware cost you suffer. The latest firmware does offer the ability to disable this soft AP but it doesn't work.

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Overall, I was disappointed by this product. I bought it to connect my home theater devices to the internet and to extend the range of my wifi network. It wasn't hard to set up although it was a little awkward to connect to a computer by lan. But the wireless connection to the router dropped numerous times over a period of five days (at least once per day), causing me to do a hard reset disconnect the power each time. I read other reviews which said that this kind of problem was caused by the security setting of WAP2 not managed well by the AV3000, so I reset my router to WAP only; didn't seem to make a difference.

I replaced with a Linksys WN2500RP which was a little cheaper and easier to set up; no dropped connections.