Timeline for Why would a WiFi extender use the same channel as the primary AP?
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| Jan 25, 2016 at 5:44 | comment | added | Ricky | NO. A repeater is a client and an AP. | |
| Jan 22, 2016 at 20:02 | vote | accept | brightbyte | ||
| Jan 22, 2016 at 12:04 | comment | added | brightbyte | Also, you say that every device on the WLAN needs to have the same encryption/password. This is obviously true for any kind of AP. But would it also be true for a plain repeater? Doesn't a repeater just re-transmit frames without modifying or even reading them? | |
| Jan 22, 2016 at 6:49 | comment | added | brightbyte | Thanks. So using a different frequency would definitely be better, but it would require more hardware (a third radio)? And they just skipped that for the cheapo wall-wart? Do I understand that right? | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 22:31 | comment | added | Yosef Gunsburg | Wait; now I see what point you're trying to make. Just because it is dual-band, does not mean it can operate at two 2.4GHz frequencies simultaneously (or two 5GHz frequencies). | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 22:29 | comment | added | Yosef Gunsburg | Dual-band devices usually do have two radios - one for 2.4GHz and one for 5GHz. Also, many dual-band devices end up with more than two antennas (MIMO, diversity, spatial multiplexing). | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 22:02 | history | edited | Ricky | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 79 characters in body |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 21:53 | history | answered | Ricky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |