WiFi Booster an £8 WiFi Repeater for £50 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 31, 2019, 06:50:24 am
content: Dropped in my face with a croc of shit youtube advert... saying this is by two former ISP employees who knew a secret and made this device that can bypass your ISPs bandwidth throttlinghttps://www.wifiboost.tech/checkoutbut it looks like a cheap wifi repeater you can buy on ebay for £8https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300Mbps-Repeater-Wifi-Wireless-UK-Plug-Blast-Range-Extender-Signal-Booster-White/283563541837?hash=item4205b4454d:g:CekAAOSwPdddOSdX

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2019, 02:42:31 pm
content: Just looking like (or even being actually the same) as some other product doesn't mean it's a fake. Quick way to market is to take something already existing and reprogram it - that's what the embedded PC market (not to mention RPi, Arduino, etc) does after all.I agree 100% that it is fake - to get around any ISP thing it would surely need to be a router rather than WiFi repeater. That, IMV, is a better reason to slag it than because they took a cheap route to market.

author: stevelup
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 06, 2019, 06:55:48 pm
content: Excellent incentive to buy more than one as well.1 @ £49.992 @ £99.99 (pay an extra 1p)3 @ £149.99 (pay an extra 2p)

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2019, 09:29:32 pm
content: It looks like the company behind itMDE Commerce Ltdhave also been mis-selling vacuum robot cleaners showing a rechargeable base but sent out something different.https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-Limitations/Robot-vacum-scam/td-p/1833354Quotehttps://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-Limitations/Robot-Vacuum-Scam/m-p/1805037#M56951QuoteI'd never trust adverts out of nowhere.

author: Ysjoelfir
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2019, 06:35:40 am
content: Quote from: MrMobodies on August 11, 2019, 09:29:32 pmI'd (and never do actually) trust adverts at all. I allow myself to claim that I am mostly immune to adverts since I always assume that everyone advertising anything just wants to scam me. this leads to (sometimes excessive) amounts of research before deciding which product suits my needs, but on the other side, I haven't received a bad item for a very long time - well, except from that stick welder, which was not to bad for the price I spent, but died at the second use.QuoteThat claim alone screams bullshit to me. If it would even be possible to bypass bandwidth throttling from a remote point without changing your plan at all there would be tons of people out there doing so. Heck, I would combine 20 of those devices! My ISP says I can only get 100MBits download/40MBits upload but they sell a way more expensive plan to double up to 200MBits/40MBits.I should try to buy 10 of those for the beginning, than I can get 1GBits download and 400MBits upload! I actually don't know what I should use that for, nor which Server could provide such speed at all (many aren't even able to give the full 100MBits...), but hey, why wouldn't I if I could?On the other hand, that would be the rates for parallelling those things. If I could somehow connect them in series.... how does 10.24 TBits sound?