Specification
Product Details
- Brand: Hawking Technology
- Model: HW2R1
- Format: CD-ROM
- Original language:
English - Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.75" h x
4.75" w x
8.00" l,
.75 pounds
Features
- Connects to your wireless internet connection
- Creates a local Wi-Fi hotspot
- 3 omni-directional antenna (1 receiving and 2 broadcasting)
- Full featured firewall and router
- Transfer rate: up to 300Mbps
Product Description
The Hawking - HW2R1 Dual Radio Smart Repeater is one of the products from Hawkings line of Hi-Gain Wi-Fi Range Extending products. It is a Wi-Fi connectivity solution that detects and receives incoming signals from any wireless network you may encounter. This HW2R1 is a smart repeater that helps reduce wireless dead spots in a local area network by multiplying the signal and expanding your wireless range.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
42 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
By Dragos Toader
3/25/2012My 802.11n / DSL router is a Actiontec GT784WN.The WiFi range on that device is poor. (the radio is under powered)I use WPA2 AES encyption. I bought the Hi-Gain Wireless-N Dual Radio Smart Repeater Model HW2R1.I ran the quick setup and checked the bridging/passthrough mode checkbox. It connects to my Actiontec via 802.11n WPA2 AES, however it broadcasts 802.11n WPA TKIP by default. Some of my 802.11n adapters (Netgear WMCE2001) actually warn me that the data rate will not exceed 54 Mbps if using WPA TKIP. Other adapters (Cisco-Linksys WEC600N Dual Band Wireless-N Ultra RangePlus Expresscard) don't give me any warning and actually connect to the Hawking HW2R1 repeater (broadcasting 802.11n using WPA TKIP encryption) at 5 bars with 130 Mbps. It's really weird! On the box and on the Hawking website, it says that WPA2 AES is supported, yet by default the repeater is broadcasting WPA TKIP encryption. Also, with bridging/passthrough mode, there's no way to configure the repeater as it "blends" into your existing network so anything that you need to change up must be set up originally in the initial configuration.3/28/2012 UpdateThis is an amazing product with no instructions!Half the customers who buy this return it due to configuration difficulties.Here's what you need to do: 1. Press the Reset WPS Button for 20 seconds 2. Connect to Wireless Network SSID Smart_Repeater 3. Point your web browser to 192.168.5.200 4. Login using username "admin" and password "1234" 5. Make sure you are on the tab labeled "Quick Setup" and Run the Automatic Setup (Recommended) 6. Check the Bridging/passthrough mode checkbox, auto-detect your wireless network SSID and enter your connection credentials. 7. The wizard will guide you through and at the end it will reboot the repeater.The above steps are just the start. 8. After the repeater reboots, you can connect via the cat5 / ethernet cable provided to fine tune the settings and get more performance out of this wonderful repeater. Connect one end of the ethernet cable to your PC ethernet adapter and the other end to the ethernet/cat5 port labeled WIRED1 on the Hawking HW2R1 repeater. 9. Turn off your wireless connection on your PC or laptop. 10. Turn on your wired connection on your PC or laptop. 11. Download file software_HW2R1.exe from [...] 12. Then, run software_HW2R1.exe. It will detect your Hawking HW2R1 repeater. 13. While software_HW2R1.exe is running and connected to the Hawking HW2R1 repeater, start your web browser and go to to 192.168.5.200 14. You will see the Hawking configuration web page that you originally saw when you connected wirelessly to Wireless Network SSID Smart_Repeater, only this time, your connection is over ethernet/cat5 wire. This is a totally undocumented feature. 15. Login using username "admin" and password "1234" 16. You can now go to the tab labeled "Manual Setup" What you have here by default are the default settings that the repeater was set to during the "Quick Setup" phase (steps 1-7 above) before the reboot. 17. Here you will see left-hand side sub menus with more in-depth customization settings. Navigate through to each screen to see the custom settings pages. Press Apply and then press the Go Back button to avoid rebooting. You'll see that the settings you just Applied are kept. DO NOT reboot after applying each setting. It's all or nothing. Basically, the repeater keeps the settings you've applied in memory until you are ready to apply permanently / reboot, in which case it will write the settings to its permanent flash storage. You accumulate all the settings, THEN you reboot when you're good and ready. This is not documented and probably causes quite a lot of people to return their perfectly working repeater. It also makes it seem as though you need to reboot after changing 1 setting. Too many reboots could end up bricking the repeater. 18. Here, you can change the wireless network security settings to WPA2 AES so you get true 802.11n speed (over 54 Mbps)The most wonderful part of this is that you can go back over and over again to further finetune your repeater over the ethernet wire connection.So what did I just explain here?A way to setup the device to a default configuration via a wireless connection and thenfine tune the default configuration via a wired connection.Another thing to do is to download the Hawking software for this device found atbit.ly/JqjVTbThis will scan your network connect to the repeater andtell you what version of the firmware your repeater is running.My repeater is running firmware ver. 1.22The firmware available on the Hawking support page at[...] index.php products wireless repeaters_&_extenders hw2r1.htmlis older versions 1.12 and 1.18.Hawking! Get your act together!You're shipping 1.22 firmware product and don't have the latest version firmware up onyour web site on the product page. What gives?Hawking should pay me to write their manuals.I'm certain if this was the case, they would have far fewer returns and a lot moresatisfied customers!
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
By Paul Binford
I purchase the Hawking HW2R1 repeater in an attempt to extend wi-fi coverage to areas in my home that my Netgear WNDR3700 could not reach. Setup was easy with the Hawking CD and I initially placed the repeater between my computer and router. The computer at that point was close enough to the router that internet speed was 25mb/s from the router wi-fi but dropped to 3mb/s when connected to the repeater. Hawking tech support suggested resetting the router and repeater to channels 1, 6, 9, or 11 to see if the internet speed would improve. None of these channels improved the speed. Tech Support suggested waiting a couple of weeks to see if it improves. I did not think that would work so I looked for a better solution. It appeared that the repeater could not pick up the routers wi-fi signal as well as my laptop so I decided to hardwire the repeater to the router. This worked good. When hardwired to the router the repeaters wi-fi signal would provide internet speeds of about 20mb/s. The speed at the connection going into the repeater averaged 23mb/s so I am happy with this setup. The repeater and router are now located at opposite ends of the house and each provide adequate wi-fi for half of the house. I am disappointed that I had to hardwire the repeater to get it to pick up an adequate signal. I think Hawking should provide a better antenna without having to purchase an upgrade but am happy overall with the solution to my problem. Hawking tech support also could have been more knowledgeable.Update: Another problem that I didn't notice when I first wrote the review is that computers in my house will not connect to the internet after reboot until I unplug and restart the repeater each time. The computers will connect to the repeater but not the internet. If I disconnect the repeater then the same computers will work fine when accessing the internet directly through the Netgear router so I know the problem is in the Hawking repeater. I have tried to resolve the problem for a couple of weeks and am having a very difficult time contacting the second level of tech support at Hawking. When transferred to 2nd level support I end up being left on hold for 15 minutes and then being forced to leave a message for a return call. I have not been able to get them to call me back so I am looking for another access point to replace the Hawking HW2R1.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
By David Bakin
Bought two of these repeaters (and higain antennas) for a wireless setup to stretch from a 3rd floor apt to a 1st floor apt. Returned both two weeks later.1) After setting up the first unit, took the second downstairs to set it up as a repeater. Used the "quick wizard". After that setup was able to see the router's signal in a wifi scanner, but couldn't connect to the router. Reboot didn't work. Reset to factory didn't work. Power cycle didn't work. Power cycle followed by reset to factory didn't work. It took me 45 seconds using the "quick wizard" to turn the thing into a brick. Returned it to Amazon.com for replacement. Then:2) Got a repeating setup to work. Great signal strength (due to the two directional higain antennas, no doubt). Latency and throughput were horrible. Unusable. Asked a wireless expert at work and got the suggestion to reduce the "fragmentation packet size" and to turn on CTS. That worked - latency and throughput went to a reasonable (but not great) level. Don't know why that wasn't the default, but it wasn't. The out-of-the-box values gave terrible performance. (Naturally, there was nothing about these parameters in the user manual.)But the killer, and the reason I returned the whole kit, was:3) During a period of 4 days of operation both boxes locked up and needed to be rebooted twice a day, at a minimum. These units were completely unreliable. Yes, I was running the latest software release (they came with the latest release installed).It's a shame. Repeaters are hard to find - in fact, I haven't found any others currently made that I can use. I just bought a Netgear Rangemax WNDR3700 Dual Band Wireless-N for a local setup and noticed that in its manual it has a repeater mode. But if you want to use that mode you can't use WPA or WPA2 - only the badly broken WEP. The Hawking specs are great: dual radios for the repeater for throughput, separate local and distance antenna sockets provided, designed for repeater use, able to use WPA2 when repeating, a weatherproof model designed for outdoor installation if you need that, etc. Too bad they don't work for longer than a few hours at a time.I should have known better than to try this product as the reviews are decidedly mixed - a bad sign. But I really really wanted a repeater setup, rather than a second internet connection + VPN between my two locations. So I gave it a try because I relied on Amazon.com's great return policy. Thank you Amazon.com for making this experiment possible!
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