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Considering buying Netgear wifi extender
Hello,
I want to extend my wifi network in my remote shop. I currently have a router provided by my ISP (Frontier). I have an ethernet connection to the shop from the router and a Wavlink wireless extender in the shop. I want to add an additional extender in the shop to cover more area. Is there a Netgear extender you can recommend for the ethernet connection to provide wifi near it and then a second extender that will connect to the ethernet connected wifi extender to expand my coverage more?
House ISP router-----------------------Ethernet---------------Shop Netgear wifi extender )))))Wifi((((((( second Netgear Wifi extender.
Thank you.
many of netgears extenders support access point mode. (not all). and many routers that do as well. the only reason I recommended orbi is because by the time you buy 2x dual band extenders or a router in ap mode and extender, you're within reach of the orbi setup and its a seamless setup (single ssid operation). versus using 2x extenders tends to create issues.
You can go to netgears wireless extender page and filter by performance.
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If you're wanting ease and simplicity? Buy a orbi option. They can be bought renewed/refurbished for pretty cheap right now. You'd want it in AP mode so it doesn't interfere with your router but it'd have much better performance than going extender-----extender. And you'd always have the option of of using it as a router if you decide it performs better than your frontier router. In that case you'd put your frontier in modem only/pass through mode and hook the orbi to it. Then you could go orbi router------ethernet run-------satellite------wireless------satellite. And it's as close to seamless roaming/operation as you'd get.
Thank you. I would like to keep my ISP router so I am looking for an Netgear extender/AP that will accept the Ethernet connection then using wifi connect to another Netgear extender/AP. I will be the only one using the network so bandwidth/throughput is not an issue.
many of netgears extenders support access point mode. (not all). and many routers that do as well. the only reason I recommended orbi is because by the time you buy 2x dual band extenders or a router in ap mode and extender, you're within reach of the orbi setup and its a seamless setup (single ssid operation). versus using 2x extenders tends to create issues.
You can go to netgears wireless extender page and filter by performance.