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re: Wifi Range Extenders - Worth it?
Posted on 7/10/19 at 1:55 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Posted on 7/10/19 at 1:55 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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I don't have the phone line running in the main living area, so guessing that puts the kabosh on the powerline adaptor.
You don't need it -- someone correct me if i am doing this wrong but the set up is as follows for powerline:
1. purchase the extender (it is 2 pieces)
2. plug piece 1 in to your router with an ethernet cable and plug piece 1 into the plug in the wall
3. plug piece 2 in the wall in the room you want
4. connect to wifi
the electrical wires act as an ethernet cable connecting between the two. The way it was described to me is that the power runs on a different frequency over the electric line and it doesn't interfere with anything.
These do NOT work if your house runs on two or more grids -- meaning it only works on one grid in the house.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 3:39 pm to Fonzarelli
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1. purchase the extender (it is 2 pieces)
2. plug piece 1 in to your router with an ethernet cable and plug piece 1 into the plug in the wall
3. plug piece 2 in the wall in the room you want
4. connect to wifi
Ah, gotcha. That makes sense. So perhaps it is an option.
Posted on 7/11/19 at 9:32 am to Fonzarelli
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powerline adaptor
Terrible idea. Basically extending your LAN outside your home on the power lines, the clear text transmissions will interceptable for quite a way until it gets filtered out by enough transformers and such. If they can be recieved they can be injected as well.
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