I purchased Netgear extender WN3000RP in late 2013 when I got a notice in the mail that Cox was installing fibre optic in the neighborhood to “upgrade” our service and telling us to upgrade our modem and router to a wireless “N” or above to get the best results from the upgrade.
When the upgraded service was complete, I couldn’t get wifi in a part of my house so purchased a new Netgear CMD31T modem, WNDRMACv2 router and extender (above). I am very happy with the service now (we don’t yet have buried cable around here).