bear extender wifi booster,.will this item work without a router just picking up wireless signal from nearby neighbor 1/2 block away
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Our Bear Extender picked up a signal that is probably 1/2 mile away, which was a surprise as we didn't know there was another wireless network in our vicinity. L D Daugherty, Silver City, NM
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I use a JacobsPart wifi Router in a mobile home from my son's wifi about 300' away (I cannot even pick up FM radio without an outside antenna). I get 3 bars which equals good signal. It works great. Of course I am not on the computer that much, but it works aytime I connect. And his home has aluminum siding to pass thru also.
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I have the repeater located two rooms and ~40 feet from my router, on the second floor of our house. I can pull in a strong signal from the repeater, from about the same distance (40'). We are mostly using it when we are on the floor below or out back on our deck. I haven't tried it from further away, but imagine I could get some level of signal from about twice the distance if there are not a lot of walls in the way.
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I'm not sure it would help you much. Range extenders must get a good signal from a wireless router to work properly. If they receive a good signal from the router they rebroadcast it and thereby extend the range.
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I don't believe so. I had to go about 20 feet but through an external wall and could not get a signal. I wound up just hard-wiring the Extender, running a cable from the source to the extender. The other thing to note here is that I'm not sure I agree that it's an "extender"... it simply started another network. So... with an ethernet cable and any wireless router, you could do the same thing.
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I am not using any extenders still I get 100 mbps about 50 feet away. It should support, If you not using everything together.
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Yes, it will. I have set one up for friend that is riding on neighbors signal and she is over 120 feet away from router. No issues watching youtube, netflix with this device.
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I'm using mine with a new Linksys AC router. I wouldn't count on across the street. Just took my Ipad outside and got to the middle of the street where I lost the signal. Depends on how many walls the signal has to go thru. As far as inside the house, it amplifies the signal wonderfully. I get great streaming on my laptop and on my TV, especially on the 5GHz channel. Much better than the el cheapo Netgear range extender I replaced.
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I don't know. I haven't tried. It is in our new gymnasium and we may not have much need to try that. It won't be used a lot there. I have shut it off for now because when I turn my laptop computer on in the church it grabs the signal from the extender and it is slower because of the distance. I can always tell my computer to grab the signal from the router in the church.
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This work in conjunction with the router. This will just extend your routers wireless range.
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No...it will not pick up and boost the signal. I am only 3 miles from the tower with a small ridge between us and it won't boost the signal.
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well i use a actiontec router and i accidentally broke my antenna. i bought the Alfa 9dBi WiFi Booster SMA antenna and it does the trick. it should work with your router too.
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I have a different model of router as well, but it is an Actiontec from Verizon and the signal booster works with it. Just screw off the stick antenna On the router and replace it with the cable from the signal booster,
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No. This product is not a range extender. It is used to convert a computer without the AC protocol to AC. The problem is probably with your router
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Do you have a wifi extender to connect the antenna? I had to buy a high power router to share my wifi with my sister who is about 200ft away plus use this antenna on a wifi extender.
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Once set up, this is true, nothing but the router needs to be within wireless range. It does need a computer (or tablet will work, too, I think) with a wireless connection for the initial setup.
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I am using this device as a wireless lan extender and it is working out just fine. I do not know if it functions as well as a wireless access point without a wireless router in place.