I’ve recently suggested a wifi extended/repeater to a friend of mine as his wifi signals stuggles to reach his room. I’ve read about wifi repeaters and suggested one to my Friend. He bought one hearing my suggestion and fu*ked up.
The repeater caused huge jitter and latency and made the internet unusable. Luckily he doesn’t remember who suggested it🤷♂️
A friend of mine had the problem that her rather old tablet did not support a GSM stick, so I recommended her to buy a newer one. Which did not support any kind of GSM stick, either.
ITT: How to fix repeater issues and use cases for repeaters.
The wifi repeaters work the best if you wire them to the network and always disable 2.4GHz on everything. (Basically not using them as repeaters)
Razer gear the quality of their stuff has gone down since they became a publicly traded company.
I really hate repeaters and would rather do the work to run cable to another access point.
But on your point I did recommend a survival game for my friend group to play after playing a little and we all bought it and played for a month and then no one wanted to play it after so I feel like my recommendation was not great.
I hate that. The absolute worse is when a friend buys me a game for all two weeks of gameplay. Since then, I make sure my friends actually want the game before money is spent
Just replay stardew valley like a real adult
Sounds like you got a month out of it. Hopefully the hours are worth it
Maybe it was set to the same wavelength as the router and cause destructive interference. IME repeaters work quite well if you don’t have any other option.
Repeaters can add fuel to the fire if there’s already a lot of access points around. Especially on 2.4ghz which has limited number of channels. It can be helped by reducing the transmitting power on all devices.
Id rather recommend the wall plugs (they connect to wall power socket and transmit Internet over power wires via RF), if you can’t run Ethernet.
Note, this only works if both ends of the plug are on the same breaker circuit
In my experience it works across circuits, but speeds aren’t that great. Just connect them to the same outlet first for pairing. I’ve heard about this method working between apartments too.
