I live on a rural property and the main router is up at the main house and my unit is propbably 100 meters away from router. The wifi extender has been working perfectly for more than 3 years and all of a sudden it's lost the signal. When i take it up to the house to reconnect with WPS it works fine until i take it back to my place. All lights are green except for the Router light which is a solid red. Confused as to why it suddenly has stopped working. Do I need a differnt extender? The one i have now is only a year old.
I'm betting its not just the extender. 100 meters is quite far for wireless to reach and be usable. Most people running that far use a point-point system. The fact that it did means it must have been set in a pretty much perfect spot for both extender and router. All it would take would be the router being moved from a window location to behind the wall to reduce the signal far enough to create problems. Not saying that's what happened but it wouldn't take much drop in signal strength to make cause the drop. a simple move of the router, a tree suddenly in the way, a tractor or other large object blocking the direct line of sight. Or some other interference like another device broadcasting on same channel to cause enough signal degredation to cause issues.
At that distance, it doesn't take much to drop a signal. I'm impressed it worked for 3 years without issues at all.
You might need to do a bit of optimizing with the router placement or antenna setup (some are directional) of the router to ensure the signal is the best possible.
Yeah not sure. Nothing has moved, router has been in the same room, extender in same place, no trees down as it's a cleared block. We dont own a tractor or anything like that. he he not that kind of rural property. it's giving me the sh*ts. Thanks for the reply anyway.
Not likely there main line. Either the router signal degraded, the signal was interfered with, or extender degraded. I'd try logging into the router and trying different wifi channels
