How different is Wi-Fi range extender from Wi-Fi booster?

How different is Wi-Fi range extender from Wi-Fi booster?

There is a need for a wireless or a wired Wi-Fi connection in almost every household. Having a Wi-Fi connection is cheap, fast and convenient for use. To enjoy the full benefit of high internet speed, it is necessary to get reliable and broad networking routers.

Multinational companies like ASUS, Netgear, Huawei, are few best computer networking company. They provide cables, routers, extenders and more products for effective internet transmission.

When you browse the net for Wi-Fi range extender, there are searches related to Wi-Fi booster, or even Wi-Fi repeater. This is exactly the same, just named differently. The Wi-Fi extender is required to boost the range or extend the area under the Wi-Fi.

There are devices that needs to be placed in the same room as the router for effective transmission.

How to get a new extender set-up?

Suppose you have a router from Netgear, then they have a webpage-Mywifiext. Here, we can login and after following these steps, you can login from webpage and set-up the extender.

1. After plugging in, check for the LED lights on the new extender set-up, else reboot the device.
2. Get a laptop, or mobile and go to Wi-Fi settings. The name of company with _extender will be seen.
3. Since, we imagine it is from Netgear, go to Mywifiext from your browser.
4. Look for New Extender set-up button.
5. Fill in the details and place the extender as per your requirement.

This, is one way to set-up a new extender. This method is known as the manual way. The second method is WPS method or commonly known as Wi-Fi Protected Setup.

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