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ex6170 extender
I have a ex6170 ac1200 extender and a Verizon Home Internet wifi router. I can't get the extender to connect to the router. I've followed all of the instructions and still not success. help
what verizon router? Some have "son". Self organizing network. Its their version of mesh and needs to be disabled if using a 3rd party device.
What method of setup did you use?
I have used both MoCA and Powerline. Both can work really well.... but both have "quirks".
Because my old house had coax running to almost every major living space, MoCA adapters were a fantastic and inexpensive way to connect devices around the house to the router. Having the coax splitter and MoCA adapter next to the modem & router was annoying and I switched to Powerline. (wish I had not "cleaned up" some of the coax, which makes going back to MoCA impractical.)
Powerline works great when everything is on one electrical circuit. But, it is not as reliable as I had hoped. Had four adapters, which required going through circuit breakers and finally "gave up" on the adapter in the garage. Every time the LED would turn red I'd have to crawl under/around furniture in four places to get the links back up. Just recently, the third adapter went red. I switched the Tivo over to WiFi.
Electrical circuits typically run through several rooms, so Powerline might be a great solution. It is easy to test.