It works by receiving your existing Wi-Fi signal, amplifying it and then transmitting the boosted signal. The only thing that would kick that up is if everyone is using the wired connection, since you have only a single line from your switch back to the modem.Does your Wi-Fi need extending? What you need to know before you invest in the wrong technology.Ī Wi-Fi repeater or extender is used to extend the coverage area of your Wi-Fi network. Wires don't suffer the traffic problems WiFi does, and typically they're not so bothered by things like microwave ovens. If you have a desktop or any sort of immobile station, an internet enabled TV, a desk with a laptop dock, whatever, WIRE IT IN. As you walk out of range of one AP, you walk into range of the other, you remain connected and your laptop can't tell the difference and doesn't care.īut your wired connections are ideal. Since your distance is so great, and so insulated from one another, you can have two antennas that connect you to your home network.
So repeaters SUCK, and are a last ditch effort.
The more WiFi you have the more turn taking everyone has to do, the slower everyone goes. All WiFi devices, whether they're on the same network or not, all using the same frequencies, because there's only one electromagnetic spectrum, all have to TAKE TURNS talking, or no device can understand any of the messages. Ever play with walkie-talkies and tried to listen to two people talking at once? You hear them both at the same time. WiFi is FM radio, and it uses a 2.4-2.44 GHz band. And that list is in order from the highest frequencies down to the lowest. These are names we give to different parts of the same spectrum. It has gamma rays, xrays, ultraviolet, visible light, infrared, microwaves, and radio waves. We have this thing called the electromagnetic spectrum, and there's only one. The booster, though, in the middle, is close enough to both, so its radio signal does reach the router strong enough to be picked up. The radio signal from the source, your laptop, doesn't make it all the way to the router, the signal gets absorbed by the walls and scattered in the atmosphere to where it's so weak the router doesn't pick it up. So an extender/booster is a WiFi device that connects to your home network and it listens for any and all WiFi network traffic on that network, it takes that message, and sends it again.
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