D-Link DAP-1520 Wireless Range Extender

2020-09-16


Many people currently work remotely from home. The quality of the WiFi network at home is very important.

The new router is the router with Mesh system. Although the price of the current Mesh router has dropped a lot compared with the previous years, many families have bought a great AC high-speed router in the previous year to two years, and it has not been eliminated at all. So we do not need to spend money to replaince with a Mesh router. Moreover, in many cases, depending on the room internal structure of the room, the mesh networking effect may not be better than the current AC router.

In this case, instead of spending more money again, it is better to spend a small amount of money to add one or two Wireless Range Extender. AC+AP, the effect may be better than Mesh router.

The following is a D-Link Wireless Range Extender (AP) D-Link DAP 1520 that I bought more than a year ago. Of course, we don’t recommend buying this model now, because a new model is available for almost the same money, for example You can find many new wireless extenders on this page.

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Let's take a look at the technical parameters of D-Link DAP 1520 Wireless Range Extender

Wireless Speed 750Mbps (2.4G + 5G)
SDRAM 64MB
Flash 8MB
Antenna Type Internal antenna (2x2+1x1)
Wireless(a/b/g/n) a/b/g/n/ac (Concurrent dual band)
LAN N/A
WPA/WPA2-Personal Yes
D-Link QRS Mobile Yes

The extender wireless speed seem to be relatively slow now. The new model AC1750 should have the theoretical total speed of 2.4G + 5G reaches 1750Mbps

Please note that because the internal structure of the room is different, when using this wireless range extender in practice, the speed may not reach the theoretical speed, which is normal.

How to use D-Link DAP 1520 Wireless Range Extender

Generally, power one the extender first. then if your enalbed the WPS button in your home router, you can directly connect the router and the extender through the WPS button.

From the photo below, we can see that the button on the side is the WPS button.

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If you don't use the WPS button, you need to log in to this wireless Extender to set it up. You first need to connect the computer to the Extender's default WiFi (not your home WiFI) and log in to the administrator account to set it up. The default administrator account and password are printed on the product shell.

Since D-Link DAP 1520 is an old model, so we will not do a detailed description of the settings here. If we have a new model in the future, we will discuss it in detail. Thank you.

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