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Powerline PLW 1000 clone router?
Maybe I am not using the correct term here, but my intention when I bought this was to have essentially an extension of my router to the other side of my apartment. My issue I have right now using th...
It sounds like the wifi sources from the Netgear stuff is behaving as planned. But your wifi clients are not playing ball.
Some wifi clients will notice that they have come across a stronger wifi signal and will connect to that. Maybe they need an on-board app to do this. It might be worth looking at "client side" solutions.
Is there a way to use the PLW1000 so that it is the SAME as my router, meaning I can go from one room to another to where the other device is located and stay connected to the same network and not have to change it? Meaning I can connect to WIFI_A and have that signal be both from the router AND powerline?
Not sure that I follow this. Your wifi clients cannot connect to both wifi sources at the same time.
The normal advice is that you should also ensure that the two wifi sources, _A and _B, are on different bands so that they do not fight with one another.
Some people will advocate using the same SSID for both wifi sources, but I have never seen a proper explanation of why that is better. To my mind that can only add to the confusions of the client devices as they will then get baffled as tyo which is the best source to talk to.
Even if they do have the same SSID, your clients have to be able to recognise that they have encountered a stronger signal and that they should connect to it.
By the way, do you notice any problems when you are next to _A but connected to _B?
- Perhaps i’m using the wrong device...
My goal is to have my phone/computer connected to my router and have the same signal strength (or close to it) whether I’m next to the router or on the opposite side of the apartment without having to worry about changing what WiFi I am connected to. Maybe a power line range extender is best instead of this power line which creates its own WiFi?
MSU92AZ wrote:
Maybe a power line range extender is best instead of this power line which creates its own WiFi?I am not sure that I understand what that is. Any wifi extender, usually known as an access point or a repeater, will create its own wifi. That's the whole point.
An access point connect by wire back to your router. Powerline Ethernet uses the main circuit to provide the wire.
A repeater "listens" to the wireless from your router and passes it on to other wifi devices.
In all cases they create their own wifi source.
If you don't want a second wifi source, then find a single device that is powerful enough to cover all the rooms where you want to have wifi. One way to do that might be to have your single wifi source in the middle of the property.
Or find out how to make your wifi clients switch seemlessly between the different wifi sources in your property.