Wi-Fi Extender or Booster - Penis pump for the internets?

[andrema]

BTW - I tried an extender and it sucked ass

[deepcdvr]

Excellent! So my recommendation sucked lol

Pretty much the story of my life related to watches and women

[toxicavenger]

BTW - I tried an extender and it sucked ass

which one?

[andrema]

Netgear AC750

[toxicavenger]

those have always got high ratings online but they suck in person. the only extenders that have worked for me are the powerline version

Here is some good info about repeaters "A repeater uses half its internal antennae to receive a wireless signal and the other half to transmit a new signal – effectively halving the potential speed of the device’s network connection.
This shouldn’t be that noticeable for light web browsing, email, etc, but can be felt when streaming video or moving files around the network. That’s why we prefer Powerline for the more demanding tasks.
Wi-Fi extenders share the bandwidth with the router. Wi-Fi speeds are slower because it’s sharing the data between the router and the extender, whereas the Powerline simply acts as a single device (not sharing the bandwidth) and so you get stronger signals."

So basically they suck.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/netwo ... s-3593058/

[toxicavenger]

what router did you end up with?

[andrema]

Asus 660u

[toxicavenger]

Asus 660r

what the hell is that? you sure it wasn't a rt-n66u?

[andrema]

Fixed