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N300 wifi extender
I have 3 of these extenders that appear to all be connected to my Orbi system. When I look at available wifi connections there is only one (1) network named Orbi_ext. Where are the other 2?
MSpeer wrote:
I have 3 of these extenders
What are these extenders?
N300 is not a reliable guide to model number. It is essentially a label that Netgear, and other brands, attach to hardware to describe wifi speeds.
michaelkenward wrote:
N300 is not a reliable guide to model number. It is essentially a label that Netgear, and other brands, attach to hardware to describe wifi speeds.
You are correct. My TP-Link's are TL-WA855RE. I bought one on Amazon for $20 to test out connecting stupid IoT devices by temporarily plugging in a 2.4G WiFi extender, connecting the smartphone to it, doing the IoT setup, then unplugging the extender. Turned out that the trick of stopping SSID broadcast on 5G was so successful that I never got around to testing the 2.4G "N300" method. If I eventually run across an IoT device that cannot connect even using the broadcast method, I'll dig this thing out and give it a go.