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I have an extender already, but it's a cheap one and bandwidth sucks. Any success stories?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If the power lines are good, you can fairly easily extend your network with ethernet over powerline adapters:

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Powerline-Adapter-Ethernet-Passthrough/dp/B0778Y6K6N

You plug one unit into an outlet close to your router and connect it to your router with an ethernet cable. You plug the other unit in in any other room in your house and connect it with ethernet to a computer, a second router, or any other device that has an ethernet port.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

YMMV with Powerline. In my experience it often has worse speeds than Wi-Fi.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

they improved quite a bit in recent years, here i can buy 500mbps powerline kit for less than 100โ‚ฌ

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