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I recently put a shed in my backyard and the wireless is spotty at best. I don't need a 10km extention or anything like the nanostations provide. Basically the router and laptop are about 60-70 feet away with 2 walls (the house wall and the shed wall) between them. I don't want to buy an outlet based extender unless someone says it will actually work. I can drill a hole in the wall of the shed if I need to, I just want an easy solution that will give me some decent wireless out there. My home router is an old rear end Actiontec MI424-WR and I'm loathe to call Frontier to upgrade it and have to spend 200 bucks or whatever it will cost.
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Oct 4, 2016 18:31
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If I buy the Archer C7 (which is only 90 bucks on Amazon) can I just plug that in place of the router Verizon (now Frontier) gave me?
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Oct 4, 2016 21:08
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Thanks, I'll order the archer c7 then.
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Oct 4, 2016 21:51
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Anyone know of any cheap routers with built-in bridging capability? I attempted to use my old ActionTec MI424 using DD-WRT. Bricked it. Not a big deal. Frankly I'd rather not deal with firmware updates and risk bricking something I care about. I've got a decent wifi signal outside my shed but inside it kills almost everything including cell coverage. It's like a lead lined box. I have tried to use a powerline adapter, however due to being on different circuits, the DL speed is cut to <5Mbps (wierdly enough upload is 7.25) so I want to run a wifi antenna outside through a hole in the shed and use a wireless router for my tv and PS4 inside. I just need a bridging router that isn't 100 bux because I've already wasted a lot of money on other ideas. Running cat5 outside is not going to work, it's about 60feet and I'd have to bury it.
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Nov 21, 2016 06:20
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As an FYI, my local shop recommended the Asus RT-N12/D1 300Mbps Wireless-N300 3-in-1 Router/ . I bought it and it was super easy to connect to my existing wifi and use it as a bridge.
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Nov 22, 2016 01:46
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Anyone know why my son's tablet could be getting past MAC filtering for TPLink AC1750? It seems to work for every other device in the house, but his Wireless signal will just get weak but still able to access the internet. There a whole lot of easy ways to block a specific device that I know of. I know he isn't connected to the 5Ghz Wireless as it has a different SSID.
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Apr 23, 2017 03:04
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Antillie posted:His tablet might be connecting to a neighbor's wifi. Also depending on his age he might have figured out how to change the MAC address on the tablet. MAC filtering is a joke really. In fact some old versions of Android would change their MAC address every time they booted up due to a bug. Most OS's will generate a random MAC on boot if they can't read the MAC burned into the NIC for whatever reason, so flaky hardware can cause this too. If you don't want him on the wifi either don't tell him what the password is or take the tablet away. All other methods of keeping people off of your wifi are easily circumvented.
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Apr 25, 2017 00:43
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