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Question: Does this extender work with public wi-fi or only home-based wi-fi?
Document: After installation no difference in Wi-Fi range. Cannot recommend this to others did not work in the end room of my home
Don't buy this. While it sets up easily and works initially, after a few hours you will be sorry. While it worked the range of my Wi-Fi was greatly improved BUT whenever any of my 4 computers on my home network went to sleep, upon &#34;waking&#34; them up the connection was lost. Nothing would regain the connection except unplugging the wifi extender and restarting it.
The Wi-Fi Range extender did the opposite of extend range.. I followed the instructions exactly as they were written. I am a tech-y person and deal with routers all the time. This product made my internet go bad. I couldn't get internet anywhere in the house once I plugged this guy in. All my devices would disconnect frequently and in order to get the internet to work we would have to restart the router. This is a horrible product that did not do what I had expected.
Worked just as it was advertised. Extended the range of our home wi fi to the balance of the house.Quick shipment, and packed properly.
Can't beat the price on this baby. If all you need is a medium boost to your home wi-fi, this is the ticket. I set 2 of 'em up with no cables and one touch setup.
Good product. Easy to setup, and it did/does ust as advertised...greatly extended the range of an existing wi-fi network inside our home to a section with cement block construction that had virtually eliminated any wi-fi into that section. Now have &#34;all lines&#34; wi-fi though the entire house! It's a cheap way to get wi-fi into areas that are out of range.
Extended my Wi-Fi range another couple hundred of feet. Set up was easy enough but bandwidth will always suffer anytime you extend the signal range with a repeater. You can expect about 50% loss in bandwidth but you'll have the ability to reach the furthest areas of your home.Design is excellent but will block outlets depending on how you install it. Very simple to use instructions and button lay out is simple. Just two buttons, a setup button and a power switch.
We have this unobtrusive little wi-fi repeater in our dining room in order to cover a dead spot that extends to our living room (our main wi-fi is up stairs). Installation took 5 minutes and it has continued to work reliably since. I'm thinking about getting another one for the garage.
This product does work to extend wi-fi signal to my bedroom where I used to get only 1 or 2 bars. The integrated power plug is so convenient that I don&#8217;t have to find a stand to place it and there is no power adapter to make it look messy.The QIG is totally helpless. I configured it by WPS in the beginning but it did not work out, just wasting my time.
Not very helpful in my house. Wi fi gadgets did not switch easily to the extender within range. Had to reset very often.
Answer: I assume that this Edimax range extender could be used with public Wi-Fi, but I have never tried. If the public Wi-Fi signal is available for this range extender to see, then you could sync to it as you would with a private Wi-Fi router including password, if required.