One of the downfalls to wireless routers is that they have a limited range and are prone to encountering reduced performance through thick walls. Extending the range of your wireless router is often ...

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Turn a spare router into a Wi-Fi repeater or access point to boost weak internet areas in your home Reviewed by Lisa Mildon You can use an old router to make your Wi-Fi reach more places in your home.

- two rooms in the apartment get a really weak (if any) signal from the main router due to thick concrete walls - an Asus RT-AC66U is available to extend the WiFi into the other 2 rooms - a couple of ...

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Lisa Marie Lalonde’s router isn’t powerful enough to cover her entire home, so she installed a range extender. But when she moves from one part of the house to another, her laptop fails to connect to ...

So I live across from my sister and she has wifi which i'm using. We are about 40-50 feet apart (from her router to my laptop and ps3). Connection is great when we're using our computers but the PS3 ...

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