Soldato
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Hi All
I'm wondering if anyone can give me a bit of advice regarding extending a wireless network.
My parents have a couple of dead spots in their house where the wifi signal just drops out completely. To try to get signal to these areas they purchased an extender which just plugs in, connects to the wifi and then extends the signal. It works pretty well and gives a strong signal in the places which had none before.
However, it's actually not improved the situation completely as now they have issues whereby if they're connected via the extender and then go to an area where the router's signal is strong and there's not much signal from the extender, the connection doesn't roam to the stronger signal, instead it tries to stay connected to the extender which makes for a terrible connection and everything is slow etc...
At present the extender is set to the same SSID as the router as I figured that would be simple, but I'm now wondering if it would be better to have a different SSID and if that would make it more likely that their devices would switch to what would appear to be a different SSID as the signal strength was greater? (does that make sense?)
Can anyone give me any guidance on this please, I'd like ot get it all sorted for them and working nicely...partly because then I'd like to do the same in my house...lol
I'm wondering if anyone can give me a bit of advice regarding extending a wireless network.
My parents have a couple of dead spots in their house where the wifi signal just drops out completely. To try to get signal to these areas they purchased an extender which just plugs in, connects to the wifi and then extends the signal. It works pretty well and gives a strong signal in the places which had none before.
However, it's actually not improved the situation completely as now they have issues whereby if they're connected via the extender and then go to an area where the router's signal is strong and there's not much signal from the extender, the connection doesn't roam to the stronger signal, instead it tries to stay connected to the extender which makes for a terrible connection and everything is slow etc...
At present the extender is set to the same SSID as the router as I figured that would be simple, but I'm now wondering if it would be better to have a different SSID and if that would make it more likely that their devices would switch to what would appear to be a different SSID as the signal strength was greater? (does that make sense?)
Can anyone give me any guidance on this please, I'd like ot get it all sorted for them and working nicely...partly because then I'd like to do the same in my house...lol