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wifi vs access point?
Hello, I have a wifi range extender since our cable Internet router is in the basement. We stream our tv upstairs and needed a stronger wifi signal to make it work better. No buffering. I set u...
Now, I made an access point for my extender. I moved it upstairs and now it can not connect to the router. What's the problem? Do I still need it as an wifi extender too? This is getting ridiculous! Hope to hear from you soon, because I am getting frustrated.
Thanks!
Update: I made it as an extender and now it connects to the router. Go figure. Wonder why it doesn't connect to the router as an access point? However, I don't think the access point works now. I tried live tv streams, still buffers and freezes. The "other" streams work without any problems. Wonder why live tv has so many problems.
Did you enable Access Point mode before wiring it to the router?
The Live TV server could be overloaded.
I think I plugged the Ethernet cord into router before access point mode. Due to the fact that www.mywifiext.net wouldn't connect to the Internet without it. Why would it say it has made an access point and not connected to the router? Doesn't make sense to me.
The live tv streams work flawlessly every where else in the house. Which makes me wondering why? The bedroom is right above the modem downstairs using wifi. Downstairs is hooked up to the modem. So, thinking if I had an wifi extender in the living room, that would make it work. Not!
Thanks for the help!
Weather1_99 wrote:I think I plugged the Ethernet cord into router before access point mode. Due to the fact that www.mywifiext.net wouldn't connect to the Internet without it. Why would it say it has made an access point and not connected to the router? Doesn't make sense to me.
Hard to say what's going on without more information. You could log onto your router and see if it is assigning IP addresses to the Access Point and devices connected to it.
The live tv streams work flawlessly every where else in the house. Which makes me wondering why?
You didn't mention this before. Ok, so it's probably not the Live TV server.
The bedroom is right above the modem downstairs using wifi. Downstairs is hooked up to the modem. So, thinking if I had an wifi extender in the living room, that would make it work. Not!I don't know where your living is relative to the bedroom and basement. Regardless, the wifi extender should be placed in a location where it can equally receive and transmit good signals to both the router and devices. You may have to experiment with location as well as different wifi channels.
