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WN3000RP V1 H2
We have an outhouse some distance from our house and I want to site a wifi access point in the outhouse which has mains powerline from the house. I have been able to get the house router signal to the outhouse via this powerline using two BT Mini Connectors - so I have an ethernet output at the outhouse. I have an old WN3000RP V1 H2 wifi extender and I wondered if the ethernet socket on this extender would take an input signal from the Mini Connector and use this to provide wifi in the outhouse. I suspect this ethernet socket on the Netgear wifi extender is for output only when using the extender conventionally to amplify the router wifi output - however, I thought it was worth asking the question before I buy a conventional wifi access point. Many thanks for any help.
> [...] I thought it was worth asking the question [...]
But it wasn't worth looking in the User Manual?
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for
"Connect a PC to the Extender with an Ethernet Cable"./!\ CAUTION:
Do not use Ethernet cable to connect the Extender to a router.
If you do so, the Extender does not work because it is
designed to use only a wireless connection to the router.
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> [...] I thought it was worth asking the question [...]
But it wasn't worth looking in the User Manual?
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for
"Connect a PC to the Extender with an Ethernet Cable"./!\ CAUTION:
Do not use Ethernet cable to connect the Extender to a router.
If you do so, the Extender does not work because it is
designed to use only a wireless connection to the router.Thanks to antinode for the helpful second part of his response.
> [...] the helpful second part of his response.
The wisdom was all packed into the first part. Most non-helpless
people can do considerable reading in the time required to post a
question and then wait to have someone else read the documentation to
him.