WiFi Range Extender

[ben351]

Living in a 2 story town house now - upstairs has the modem / router and the wifi is cool up there - no issues ... downstairs right up the back of the house is the home cinema room and I want to move my Xbox in there to watch NBA and shit - concerned the WiFi range wont be as strong so want to buy a range extender to boost my signal upstairs ... have been told these are ok https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/networking/belkin/belkin-n300-plug-in-range-extender/573130/ - anyone had any experience with them ?

[RGVFAST]

I live in a similar set up, wifi has had no issues. Unless you have an enormous place with soviet style bunker style concrete slab and walls it should work fine.

[ben351]

Ok I lie ... its to run the webcam in the rape dungeon

[stumps.]

Have you tried it?

My wifi works everywhere around the house, in the shed and on the street

[TJ]

router is in the back room of the back unit, get signal to 2 houses down - you should be ok, but it does have a lot of walls etc.

[Satan]

mu IP cameras act as wifi extenders and work well

[ben351]

I'd rahter be safe and buy one than be sorry. I have very low tolerance to the stream being choppy or not HD when watching basketball ... It will make me angry and I don't want that.

[TJ]

Test tonight, buy tomorrow if no good

[ben351]

have tested in the past

[Lonewolf]

buy a powerline networking kit

plugin 1x @ router end, and into power point
plugin 1x @ xbox end and into power point

Done!

But if you want to have Wifi downstairs then yeah an extender is a good idea (or a powerline kit with wifi - netcomm do one)

[killabeez]

I would buy a good wireless router over one of these. They aren't great man.

The data gets sent to the repeater from your router and then to your device instead of just your router to device.

These look decent and aren't that pricey.

http://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/

http://ubcdn.co/media/images/product-features/unifi-ap-features-design.jpg
http://ubcdn.co/media/images/product-features/unifiap-feature-range.jpg

[_S9_]

Say what you want about Apple products - but the Airport Express works flawlessly as a range extender or bridge.

Thew my Linksys with DD-WRT firmware in the bin after I changed over to the fruit.

[Steve]

I ditched the DD-WRT firmware for Toastman-Tomato firmware, now that's flawless..

[tinto]

^for extending an apple originated wireless network that's true - it's awesome and really easy to do.

But you may struggle to get it to extend a wireless network created by another brand of router.

[protecon]

I would buy a good wireless router over one of these. They aren't great man.

The data gets sent to the repeater from your router and then to your device instead of just your router to device.

These look decent and aren't that pricey.

I've got a Ubiquiti - works well.
I have the AP-LR long range dual band.

I used to run wifi for the HTPC which is fine for most stuff but struggles with 1080 (especially with lots of devices on network). I'd recommend running physical cable if you can.

[Blueraven]

+1 EoP what Lonewolf said.

I had issues steaming 1080p files bigger than 10g on my wifi to my media centre upstairs, EoP gives no fucks for signal.

[Evilteddy]

I would buy a good wireless router over one of these. They aren't great man.

The data gets sent to the repeater from your router and then to your device instead of just your router to device.

These look decent and aren't that pricey.

http://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/

http://ubcdn.co/media/images/product-features/unifi-ap-features-design.jpg
http://ubcdn.co/media/images/product-features/unifiap-feature-range.jpg

We use these at festivals, especially around the artist compounds. This is the direction i'd be going if i was you Ben.

[TurboHead]

Is that something that replaces a router, plugs into a router or repeats a routers wifi?

[Turboesky]

Is it your house? any chance of running network cable to your theater room. Then add an access point in your theater room with same SSID.