I got the Cisco RE1000 (pair it with my E4200 router) and it works great for me.
In parts of the house where the signal strength is normally good at best it now gets four or five bars of signal strength.
I can update this with dBm numbers (before and after RE1000).
My questions are the following:
1) Windows 7 only sees ONE SSID for my network.
Does this mean it somehow picks up the stronger of the two (my router or RE1000, both of which MUST use the same SSID in order to make use of the RE1000) automatically?
2) My wireless adapter's utility and my Blu-Ray players (with wifi adapter built-in) DO see the duplicate SSID and I can choose which one to connect to based on signal strength.
My question is will these wireless devices always pick the one I intially selected?
The reason I ask is that, given they have the same SSID and I am not using MAC address to distinguish them (maybe the devices somehow do this behind the scenes, although I tend to doubt it).
Anyway, I am very happy with the RE1000.
Caveat - The MAC address printed on the box and back of the unit correspond to that of the ethernet port and not the MAC address of the wireless networking (WLAN) portion of the extender!!!
In parts of the house where the signal strength is normally good at best it now gets four or five bars of signal strength.
I can update this with dBm numbers (before and after RE1000).
My questions are the following:
1) Windows 7 only sees ONE SSID for my network.
Does this mean it somehow picks up the stronger of the two (my router or RE1000, both of which MUST use the same SSID in order to make use of the RE1000) automatically?
2) My wireless adapter's utility and my Blu-Ray players (with wifi adapter built-in) DO see the duplicate SSID and I can choose which one to connect to based on signal strength.
My question is will these wireless devices always pick the one I intially selected?
The reason I ask is that, given they have the same SSID and I am not using MAC address to distinguish them (maybe the devices somehow do this behind the scenes, although I tend to doubt it).
Anyway, I am very happy with the RE1000.
Caveat - The MAC address printed on the box and back of the unit correspond to that of the ethernet port and not the MAC address of the wireless networking (WLAN) portion of the extender!!!