I've been looking at wireless extenders recently. My WiFi comes from my Verizon Fios router, which is located in the bottom floor of the house with the main home theater. In our bedroom two floors up, phones and tablets get about 1-2 bars of Wifi if the door is open, less to zero if it is closed.
But I haven't pulled the trigger on a purchase because there seems to be a lot of confusing info about how these things work and their effectiveness. For example, if the range extender/repeater is itself connecting to the main base station by wireless, then isn't it cutting down on the available bandwidth for the network? I would think a better option would be to link the 2nd router to the first via powerline, but that's adding cost. Comments and suggestion from those of you who are networking professionals would be appreciated for us home noobs :) --------- Brian On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Joshua MacCraw <[email protected]> wrote: > Another option is a dual radio WAP setup as a mesh AFAIK and they are > cheap. > On Jan 14, 2012 11:37 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I bought one of these made by Diamond...it was pretty easy to set > up...one > > of my android tablets detects both the ssid of the router and the > receiver > > (using wifi analyzer)...and I can see the signal strength of one drop > while > > the other rises, but both end up on both locations. My ipad won't > connect > > to the signal of the repeater at all. I tried giving the repeater a > > different SSID just to see if that would help the connection issue, but > it > > didn't. I'm not convince this thing will help, either. Oh...seems like > > the repeater signal would drop to zero and then come back, periodically. > > That doesn't sound good. > > > > Any thought or ideas? I'm thinking of sending this thing back. > > >
