Looking to buy a wi-fi range extender for my house.
Which one should I buy?
Brad Ott, post: 383044, member: 197 wrote: Looking to buy a wi-fi range extender for my house.
Which one should I buy?
Brad:
Are you looking to extend via a repeater? That is, take the wifi signal you have and use another wifi router in repeater mode?
Or, do you have ethernet run to the area that you need better wifi strength?
If the former, there's an advantage of using like equipment. That is, if it's a Netgear, use Netgear; if Cisco, use Cisco, if Linksys, use Linksys, if Apple, use Apple. All tend to play better with their own kind.
If the latter, (a much preferable way to enhance wifi coverage), you can use just about any router out there...even really inexpensive ones. Just name the SSID the same as your existing network.
Ebay and Amazon is full of them and they are relatively simple.
Many of the newer TP-Link models with three extra long antenna will reach outside of your house and are priced very reasonable. Our phones are connected across most of our two acres.
People are always stopping across the highway attempting to connect.
They also have the directional models that look like a wire frame wave antenna that will push the signal to another house a hundred yards away, may take two, one at each end and requires direct line of site.
They also make powered extenders for CAT5 wire to extend a hardwire connection a very long way to connect to something or another WiFi unit down the road. connecting to another WiFi unit will allow the other source to apply their own unique password for connection.
They also make powered adapters to use CAT5 with USB to extend those connections down the road.
Remember that every connection can lower the actual download rate at the point of connection to each unit in use at the same time.
