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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...
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?
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.