About how many feet will this unit extend the network? (What is the range?)
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I installed it at work. The router is in the front office of a brick building about 140' long. The extender is in the basement at the back and sends the signal into a basement room in the (attached) building next door. I played around with placement to get the best signal. No problems and it has never dropped.
649020
The range will vary. I installed unit in an upstairs plaster wall structure and I was able to pick up signal as far as 250 feet away. Range is excellent.
1736076
The range is probably up to about 150 feet at nearly full throuput - I use the router in my home and even in the distant bedrooms and outside the throughput has been strong - hope that helps
554362
The range is well above 1600 ft. In fact your neighbors will be in range if you don't use your security included with router, they'll be able to piggy back on your signal.
610861
Sorry I didn't reply sooner. It depends on how many other wireless signals are in the area. Sometimes I've had a range up to 50 yards or more. Other times not as much. 30 yards shouldn't be a problem.
1118681
Hi Brian, you can use two extenders in one network, but you won't be able to "chain" two of them together to further extend the signal. If you're having trouble getting signal downstairs even with an extender, you might want to look into a Powerline setup!
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I paired the extender with the router. Then I plugged the extender into an outlet at the far end of the house, a distance of approximately 120 feet. It has worked very well giving us a good signal through out the 218 ft. wide house on one level.
1545761
Don't know the maximum range. Mine is in same room about twelve feet from router and works fine.
1545762
I'm not sure what the range is, but mine is on a different floor and about 30 feet from the router and it works fine
2166110
It can, but the whole point of it is to extend your range. My router is in the garage (satellite) and the extender is in my computer room. Gets the signal out to my back patio. Seamless to get started up- works just fine for me.
1347811
I don't know the exact specifics, but I can get almost 150 more feet of WiFi with this on my patio. It works well.
1520951
Thats beyond cat5 range as you know. I suggest running a shielded pvc insulated cable for max throughput, and it may still not work.
1007177
That should work. With this particular range extender you actually create a new network that is seen by the computers in the area serviced by this extender. Technically what happens the range extender connects to the wireless signal from your router. It than sends out a signal, thus extending the range of your router. When you setup the "new" network you are actually just extending your original network. Hope this is helpful
780781
You need to set it up as a repeater fpor your existing router, which is a feature of the unit that is not even mentioned on the box. Then put it midway to the point at which you want to extend the signal.
200547
I say yes under the following scenario. If at the closest point to your neighbors house you are getting 40/50 signal strength chances are pretty good you can extend the signal much farther into yours. While true the initial set-up needs to be near 100 signal strength, however after that the unit can be moved to optimize the range of the signal. Netgear has a really great app called the Netgear Genie exactly for that purpose. Any yes, your neighbor will need to let you come over to set the unit up. Good Luck.
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I have a 2800 sf house, with the router place in the room above the garage mounted on a wall vertically. The single to the other side of the house is ok, 52mb out of 145mb. I will be installing a shelf to mount horizontally to try getting a better signal, just have not gotten to it.
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I use it as an extender from my router near my computer. The extender is 3 rooms away and with both gives me coverage on 3 floors including the basement of my large house. I am happy with it, but next time would probably buy a more powerful one (more $$$ of course).