Netgear extender overriding HubOne router
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Netgear extender overriding HubOne router
11-09-2017 10:59 PM
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12-09-2017 3:07 AM
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If you are in same room as Hub One, can you confirm if you completely shut down your wifi device (and I do mean turn it off completely). Then turn it back on, does it now connect to Hub One ?
In general wifi devices will lock onto first signal they see and will stubbornly stay connected to it even if the signal is weak. The signal has to completely disappear before the wifi device will seek out a stronger signal.
Mesh wifi systems like BT's Whole Home wifi overcome this issue.
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12-09-2017 11:55 AM
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12-09-2017 12:31 PM
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The extender does its job perfectly but I don't understand why a weak signal from it 40ft away is of more interest to my laptop/iPad/two IPhones than a seemingly strong router which is 3ft away!
I changed the channel from 11 to 6 and it made absolutely no difference. I assume it is a configuration issue but I can't work out what else to do.
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12-09-2017 12:35 PM
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I used to use a Netgear extender, can't remember how I set it up - but I think when you set it up you tell it the SSID of what you want it to extend and it automatically chooses that name and appends something like _EXT on the end. May not be the same model but possibly similar.
So unless the OP has changed it I would imagine that is not the issue. I guess first thing is to turn off the extender and see if the router wireless works, so you know that is causing the problem.
But yes, still worth checking the SSID's as @Gel said. Though I am not sure quite how wireless works - you would see two SSID's of the same name, and wouldn't it work by connecting via the WiFi MAC address.
Though I could be wrong.
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12-09-2017 12:41 PM
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12-09-2017 2:01 PM
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13-09-2017 8:00 PM
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