Wouldn't an airport express do the trick? Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Brian Weeden <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >>> >>
