Here’s what you gotta know.
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Why buy an extender when basic mesh systems are this cheap?
While premium mesh systems can run you hundreds, the price of mesh systems has been falling for years.
Whatever the reason, use these tips to make the best of a less-than-ideal connection setup.
Poorly placed Wi-Fi routers are one of the big reasons people look into Wi-Fi extenders in the first place.
Why buy an extender when basic mesh systems are this cheap?
Some manufacturers have specific router models that support special integration with extenders made by the same manufacturer.
Don’t crowd your access points together.
Wi-Fi extenders inherently degrade the user experience because of latency, overhead, and so on.
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When you set up an extender you have to give it the credentials of your main web connection.
Let’s say your main data pipe is SSID:
with the password:
.
If your main Wi-Fi SSID is MyWiFi, then name the extenders something like
and
.
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The 2.4ghz band has only three non-overlapping channels, 1, 6, and 11.
Further mesh systems are extensible.
