wahoowad
Regular Contributor
Damn. I thought I used to understand home wifi but haven't kept up and feeling pretty dumb.
My wifi router is at one end of my house at the only spot the cable enters. Coverage is fine throughout the house. But at the far end of my house in my detached garage I occasionally have low or dropped wifi. I bought a TP-Link AC750 Wifi Extender thinking I could plug it in out there to extend the signal. Turns out the AC750 also does not see enough signal to do so - guess I shouldn't be surprised. I have relocated the AC750 back within the house, upstairs closer to the garage. At that location it can hold the signal and am hoping will improve coverage to the garage.
My question is about the SSID. I thought the 750 would use the same SSID but am I supposed to also connect my device to the AC750_Ext SSID and switch between them? Really? Is my device (generally either my iPhone or iPad) then going to auto-negotiate and jump back and forth to the strongest connection? I often stream ballgame audio using the TuneIn app and it likes to reset the audio back 15 to 30 seconds when it reconnects to wifi so worried my streaming will do this when my device auto-switches from my primary SSID to the SSID_Ext. Is this how it is supposed to work?
My wifi router is at one end of my house at the only spot the cable enters. Coverage is fine throughout the house. But at the far end of my house in my detached garage I occasionally have low or dropped wifi. I bought a TP-Link AC750 Wifi Extender thinking I could plug it in out there to extend the signal. Turns out the AC750 also does not see enough signal to do so - guess I shouldn't be surprised. I have relocated the AC750 back within the house, upstairs closer to the garage. At that location it can hold the signal and am hoping will improve coverage to the garage.
My question is about the SSID. I thought the 750 would use the same SSID but am I supposed to also connect my device to the AC750_Ext SSID and switch between them? Really? Is my device (generally either my iPhone or iPad) then going to auto-negotiate and jump back and forth to the strongest connection? I often stream ballgame audio using the TuneIn app and it likes to reset the audio back 15 to 30 seconds when it reconnects to wifi so worried my streaming will do this when my device auto-switches from my primary SSID to the SSID_Ext. Is this how it is supposed to work?