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Any downside to using a Wi-Fi repeater?

Todd33

Todd33

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My new house is two stories and the Wi-Fi signal which is furthest from the router is weak. I was thinking of buying a repeater. Is the lazy solution, would I be better off moving the router around or doing something else?

Any recommendation on a repeater? The Diamond WR300N looks to be the one of choice on Amazon.
 
Entry level Repeater (single radio) cuts the Bandwidth into half past the Repeater.

Why? Because the Radio has to Flip-Flop between receiving and transmitting.

Solution. You buy two inexpensive regular Wireless Routers.

One should be set as a Wireless Bridge and the second as a Regular AP.

You put them in the right Spot and connect them through a short Cat6 cable (LAN port to LAN port).

The idea is one Receives, the other Transmits further and there is No lose of Bandwidth, and since it is normal AP it will even cover longer distance than the pitiful devices that are sold as Consumer Repeaters.


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Just chiming in to add that you want to make sure that the routers should be on separate channels. For example, if your primary router is in channel 1, then your wireless bridge should be set to channel 6 and your AP router (the one connected to the wireless bridge by an Ethernet cord) would be set to channel 11. Same thing for the 5ghz spectrum- you just don't want to wireless routers in the same spot running on the same channel.

If you have issues with interference after that you'll want to see what channels your neighbors are using.
 
Use another router as a WAP rather than getting a repeater and you're good to go....unless running that extra ethernet cable is an issue for you.
 
JackMDS said:
You put them in the right Spot and connect them through a short Cat6 cable (LAN port to LAN port).
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I thought, you connect LAN from router connected to the cable modem to WAN of router that acts as an access point.

donfm said:
Use another router as a WAP rather than getting a repeater and you're good to go....unless running that extra ethernet cable is an issue for you.
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I am going through similar situation. Which routers you think would serve the purpose best? I came across refurbished E1000, E1200, LINK-M20-RM Valet Plus for less than $20. Do you recommend any of these?

Another router that I am using at the moment is Asus WL-520GU which is b/g only, so my plan is, I will get either of the above mentioned ones and connect it to the cable modem. I will use Asus as a access point. Makes sense?

Thanks in advance.
 
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deltaforce said:
I thought, you connect LAN from router connected to the cable modem to WAN of router that acts as an access point.
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Connecting to a WAN creates a second Routing and thus a second network with different subnet.

The result impedes seamless sharing and might confuse port opening needs.


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