I have a WLAN/Router that was supplied to me by Unitymedia in Germany. Unitymedia stated that NetGear is the manufacturer of the device. I need a repeater as the signal is too weak to cover my house. I tried to use a Fritz Repeater model 450E, but it is apparent they are not compatable because the signal is repeatedly dropping out.
Re: What is the correct repeater for my WLAN/Router?
Hi John,
Unles there is an incompatibility (very unlikley), repeated conneciton loss (from the extender to the router) can indicate a weak connection quality at the installation point of the extender.
Unitymedia stated that NetGear is the manufacturer of the device. ...
CM MAC: 905C44895572
MTA MAC: 905C44895573
GATEWAY MAC: 905C44895574905C44
As per the MAC address part 90:5C:44, the manufacturer is Compal Broadband Networks, Inc., Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, TW. Compal is a very big ODM company manufacturing units for many brand vendors. As the cable modem/router as well as DSL modem/ruters for the ISP market is higly competitive, prices are low, margins are very low - and this has an impact on the product quality and perfromance. It's impossible to see where and how that the Netgear brand company is involved - of course, they don't want to become invovled with any support questions for example.
As per some Internet ressources, the Connect Box (as it's named all over many ISP owned by Liberty), it's on 5 GHz 802.11ac with 3x3 MIMO up to 1.3 Gb/s, and on 2.4 GHz 802.11n with 2*2 MIMO, so at least 300 Mb/s.
Translating this into the Netgear Extender range, look into the AC1900 range (for equal technology), ie. an EX6400, and EX7000, or then the EX7300 (an AC2200 unit).
Depnding on your house - it's not a secret that installing a network cable (go for CAT6A at least nowadays) does lead to better results than the same-band WiF boosters. Most extenders can be operated as wireless access points, the EX7000 for sure, too.
