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Antenna scheduling on WiFi extenders
Hi, I'm have a netgear router but I need a range extender. Now, I'm very interested in the wall AC plugin wifi extenders, but I feel I'm missing a feature. In my router I've setup the Wif...
Hi Denno,
Yes, please see the following screenshot (in this example is the NETGEAR R6400 router):
For more on wireless scheduling:
Using the Wi-Fi scanner in my smartphone app, I measured the signal strength of my R7000 router from about 2 feet to be -26 dBm. That's a little over 2.5 µW (microwatts) or 0.0000025 watts. Compare that to a 1000 watt microwave oven (60 dBm), which is approximately 400,000,000 times more powerful. At about 10 feet away, the R7000 signal strength drops to -46 dBm or 25 nW (nanowatt) or 0.000000025 watts or 1/100th of the power at 2 ft. A cell phone radiates between 1 watt to 2 watts, thousands of times more powerful than Wi-Fi.
The upshot? Wi-Fi signals are insignificant. Unless you are living in the middle of nowhere, you are already being bombarded by your neighbor's Wi-Fi signals. One or two more aren't going to make a difference. :smileyvery-happy:
Anyway, to address your question, if there is going to anything that would switch off the radio automatically, it would be the access schedule. Unfortunately, I don't own an extender so I can't tell if the radios can be disabled by the access schedule. I do suspect they would be disabled. Hopefully, somebody can confirm.
Hi Denno,
As mentioned by TheEther, there is a setting called Access Schedule. However, this will not disable the WiFi radios. It will only disable internet access.
You can still access the mywifiext.net page even during these scheduled times.
There are no settings that will automatically shut off the antenna as you'd like.
