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wifi extender in apartment building
I am told that I need a wifi range extender to cure the fact that I have a weak signal on my Amazon Fire TV Stick connected to my television set.
I have found two of your products that seem to be what I need and can afford. I there a difference between them?
1. Your model EX 5000, AC 1200
2. Your model 2021 WiFi Extender-WiFi Repeater, WiFi Booster
The latter has a 1cent lower price.
Which do you recommend?
You also have a Model 750 at about half the price. Is this adequate?
Thanks, Nathan L. Jacobson
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the only model number you gave was the EX5000.
the others aren't model numbers. so tough to tell you anything based off your info
Plemans, thank you for taking the time to answer my querry. Ok, now I know which numbers indiacte the different models. I went to the netgear website and looked at its list of range extenders and here is what I found:
1. AC 750 EX3700 Price from Netgear is $26.89 now. It was 46.99. Most be an older iterm
2. AC 750 EX6100 Price from Netgear is $74.99
3. AC 750 EX 3100 Price from Netgear is 64.99
4. AC1200 EX 5000 Referred to Amazon. Its price is 45.83
5. AC 750 EX 2800 Referred to Amazon. Its price is $26.29
I do not care whether I buy from Amazon or Netgear. It is the coverage that interests me.
My apartment is a studio and so small in an old age home. I have an Amazon Fire TV Stick attached to my TV by HDMI cable. The building is wired so that all apartments have internet wifi connection. The strength of the signal on my TV is mostly 2 of the 4 levels in the wifi icon. Sometimes it goes to 3 levels for a short time and sometimes it goes to 1 level when the picture deteriorates and the connection could be lost altogether. I do appreciate your help. Do you have any choice among the above.
How big is the apartment?
Reason I ask is that most decent routers will cover decently unless you have walls of stone/brick/concrete/adobe/plaster lathe.
And extender by the very nature of how they work (single/dual band) drop throughput 50%.
So if you're apartment isn't to large and isn't make from materials that block wifi, you'll see better results with optimizing placement of the router and maybe a decent router.
