STOP making this WiFi Range Extender mistake and INSTANTLY get faster Internet!
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- You get WiFi Extender and WiFi Repeaters - what is the difference and what change can you quickly make to triple your internet speed?
This is what I will show you today!
We look at the differences between WiFi Extenders and WiFi Repeaters and YES there is a difference which is why you are probably disappointed by your WiFi and internet speed.
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Do you know these 5 things about WiFi Extenders and Repeaters? th-cam.com/video/D426yrwlLYM/w-d-xo.html
I have on same wifi repeater 160mbs without cable...
Hey liron,
I am enquiring for someone who lives on a property with multiple buildings. One building at the bottom has the wifi, if you sit half way between you get weak signl but its not the best and i dont know if that extends into the second building but there is nothing in the 3rd building. Where would the repeater or extender be placed? Would it even work?
so not within the same building at all, I'm sure we could make some sort of waterproofing for the extender and put on an extension cord outside but I'm just wondering if this would even reach? How do we know the reach it has?
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I watched this earlier today and then went over for dinner at my parents' house. They have an extender that (we thought) was useless trash. But we didn't know about the extender's own WiFi. Or that it should be connected to the router with an ethernet cable. I ran one from the router, then found the extender's WiFi. Connected and now they have awesome fast WiFi even in the back not their yard where it was crap before! Thanks for the tip. A life saver.
Bro that story is amazing. It be the simplest things sometimes
This was something I was thinking about for getting a better signal upstairs in the backside of my house. Thank you for all your helpful information. 😄👍
underrated uploader.. gives you the info fast and concise i love it.. no waste of time and entertainment like LTC! keep up the good work!
Appreciate it and thank YOU for hanging out here - more to come!
what’s “LTC”?
@@ryanolsen294 I'm guessing Linus. Are you not entertained?
This was GOLD. I havent actually seen your channel before Liron. But I do listen to your VidIQ Podcast each and every week. Today I wanted to know about extenders and wasnt looking at the screen when I heard your voice. I thought hold on... why is the podcast playing??? Great video mate, you helped me out.
Lekker video! Excellent summary. It's important to realize there's going to be a speed loss when you use a repeater. One of the uncommon uses of these repeaters is using it as a wireless to wired bridge to connect a device without a wireless adapter. One of my computers keeps dropping the connection with a USB wireless adapter but a direct ethernet connection to the port at the bottom of a "cheap" repeater holds the connection. I guess "slower and steady" sometimes beats "fast but flakey".
That’s exactly what I do to rn, trying to figure out if getting a pcie wifi card would be better tho (for my custom build pc)
Thanks ever so much for this video which demystified the whole "extend your wifi" issue for me!
My only point of confusion is if an extenders whole purpose is to make wifi far away from the router better, but you still need it to be hard wired to the router for it to actually be better, that makes the whole situation a lot harder because most people (including me) don’t know how to run an Ethernet cable through walls and across hallways and I don’t wanna see it strapped to the ceiling either so what am I supposed to do?
Attic
@@vibe5461 my house doesnt have a full attic just a little crawl space
Just put an ethernet cable go around the doors and stuff to reach certain rooms. My mom did it by herself a few months ago.
Suffffer
Fantastic tutorial, thank you. I didn’t realize the difference between the two devices.
Appreciate you being here 🔥
@@LironSegev Agreed but I cant seem to find a true extender everything is a repeater. Do you have a link to an extender I can hardwire?
Tysm u have helped me for years. I went from 20 mbps to 100plus
The way you show us the difference of the internet connection really proof it all
exactly the info I was looking for. thank you!
Bro I wanna say thank you because I was gonna purchase something I didn’t need. Listening to this video I know I need a WiFi extender once again thank you 👍🤝
You got it! Thanks for hanging out here 👍
@@LironSegev
Quick question do you have a review on the WIFI NETGEAR NIGHTHAWK X6 AC2200 I saw on Amazon and it’s something I’m looking into
@@IVAnswer the netgear extenders are garbage you disconnect from the wifi and reconnect so many times I do not recommend it.
Thanks, Liron. Great video as always. What a difference this makes. I have a few years ago used powerline Wi-fi extenders with some very good results. However, I have since needed a better connection and as I was unable to place another cable to the areas where I needed the signal, I installed a mesh network. I've never looked back. Good speed, So far, it has proven to be very reliable as I had no downtime with it. I do enjoy your videos a lot as they are always very informative and you do explain everything really clear. Thanks for your hard work. Greetings from the UK.
A Mesh WiFi is ideal but a bit pricy still. I am sure those will come down at some point. You definitely made the right call!
I considered a mesh network myself but now I am considering ethernet cables to a power line adapter or extender but seeing some of these are repeaters makes me less confident
This actually helped so much. I had mine on extender mode without a cable in my basement and now it's on access point mode. And my wifi is already looking better than before
epic!
Answers exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
Excellent coverage. Really helped educate me on the differences. Subscribed
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! We live in an old house with thick walls so wifi is quite poor, after watching this I’ve routed an Ethernet wire from our router downstairs to the upstairs bedroom and across the landing to the centre of the house , should be ideal hardwired! Thanks for the upload 😊
Quick update, same speed from router as on the landing upstairs, kids are made up! Gamers can game, box sets can be watched 😊👍🏻
Glad that worked out
sounds awful, you just have a 100+ foot ethernet cable running thru your hallways?
@@syatek thanks for your very presumptuous reply! All neatly tucked in behind carpet and skirting boards, three very happy kids all with 200 mbps wifi 😀
@@stefox2003 You're a great parent! Mine won't let me have ethernet haha. Lucky them ☺️
Im about to buy one. thanks dude for clarifying the difference. MEGA THUMBS UP FROM POLAND ;)
That is how you Vlog. Lively and with heart. If you do it, do it the right way. Keep it coming, Bro.
Who else is watching this on bad wifi
Thank you, so repeater is actually cheaper if you are going to be accomplishing what you would from an extender/repeater where I guess most people think using their extender as repeater instead of AP (original use) think they need no lan cable and can get better signal simultaneously I assume.
Thanks for the information and clarification!! Great video!!
I have one that supports both cable and wifi. Currently I have a powerline thing plugged in next to it, and a cable from the powerline thing to the extender. Works pretty well!
I’ve got 7.37 download speed and 2.41 upload speed so this definitely helped my confusion a lot, I’ve got a wifi repeater with a terrible signal. The speed near my router is 300+ mbps but is potato everywhere else apart from that room. Thanks so much for the tips.
Did you get a wifi extender and if so what are the results?
i keen to know it too
@@gradience304 I have got a wifi extender now and I get 50-100 mbps with Ethernet . Without Ethernet I get 30-50
And the Ethernet cable is connected to my wifi extender
The non wired range extender was much faster than the repeater in this test so still much better to buy the extender and use without a wire.
We live in a cabin on the owner's property and were getting wifi from a wireless extender about 30 feet from the house and the speeds averaged 10mbs up and 4 mbs down. I had a spool of CAT5E cable from a house build and finally the landlord connected it on his end. Now we have, like the video mentioned, a new Access Point with a unique _EXT name. The speeds are 90 MBS down and 16MBS up (that's likely the max speed for the service since we live in the country on an island). I am so happy.
Just a note that it didn't work at first because I used the whole length of wire despite needing only about 60m. The max length is about 100m, so I shortened it.
I'm so happy to have a reliable and fast signal.
I have mine plugged in without the cable so I’m going to go do some speed tests right now!! Thanks!
I’m just glad I found you. Thanks
Wonderful. Can you comment on the placement as far a height goes? How high does it need to be to get the most benefit? I'm using a WAVLINK AC600 to send a signal across the street. Would an extender or repeater be a better option? The AC600 is not giving me the signal I had hoped for. Thanks Liron. You're amazing.
Thank you very much, you explained it very easy to understand. I did not even know there were 2 names used for doing this. I don't have LAN, so I need a repeater (but extender would be working too, but not at its max. speed), and I must put it as close as possible to the signal to get a reasonable speed. And nice your background music is not too loud, so your voice is very clear and easy to follow
appreciate you being here!
Is An extender without wire connection ( better performance) actually same as a repeater ?
I have needed this info for awhile. Thank you so so much. I couldn't find this info out anywhere till I found this info, so thank you. I just don't know if I can connect my router so I have some work to do now. And I need to know what type of cable I need.
total tech tool here. I have a fairly long house, so the router, placed in the middle barely reaches both ends. I was thinking of purchasing a REPEATER at the 1/4 and 3/4 points while the router stays at the 1/2 point. but after watching your extremely helpful video, you have convinced me to opt for an EXTENDER instead. However, I was wondering: can I place the Router at the 1/4 point and then an extender at the half-way point and another extender at the 3/4 point? will the signal be uniform throughout the length of the house? thanks.
OK fabulous Liron. You are my hero. I spent 3 hours futzing with nonsense until you came along and explained it simply. thanks.
Glad it helped
Thank you so much man. I was about to buy a repeater but was a bit skeptical and found this video. Appreciate it, cheers.
This was so informative, thank you.
Thanks for being here 🔥
Would have been interesting to also see the speed of the normal Wifi but lets say at max range.
Yeah, that would help with the stats,
I was wondering what the speed test was without anything, so I could see the actual benefit of the WiFi extender
Probably the same, so wasn’t shown
and the location of the router and extender
Thank you, I now know what I need. Short and to the point
Glad it was helpful and thank YOU for watching!
awesome class Thank You, my family is starting to think I'm an expert Thanks to You
TH-cam and google specifically barely run most days through my Netgear extender to lan cable to PC. any Ideas? speed test 60mbps, youtube only gets 100-400 kbps...
Update: I seemed to have fixed it, I turned off something in settings. It said experimental or beta I think
Your video is very clear and well explained. However, vendors are not as clear, and it's hard really to find proper explanation as to how their wifi "extender/repeater" will connect to the box. For example, the trendy RE455 has lots of antennas and Mbps, but it's not clear as to how many 2.4 et 5 antennas there are really. It seems only one 2.4 and one 5 (even though called "dual-band", which only means it's 2.4 and 5, which is lame), so it connects to the box with the same antennas used to spread the new EXT wifi network, so bandwidth divided by 2. What do you think? Would you recommend a specific wifi repeater?
Hi. Interesting report..I have recently checked a few extenders...I found that the 2.4 output is lower as you found but on the ethernet connector there is no loss in speed while still receiving the wifi signal....also on a dual band unit the 5 output is also good ...so the problem appears to be when repeating the 2.4 signal...basically a design issue
thats because the 2.4 is for longer range and little slower whereas 5 is for short range and really strong.
it's the signal hop as well, when the wifi signal is transmitted and received using a particular frequency for the modem router and extender to communicate, the speed is cut essentially. If you know how to assign different frequency for tx and rx, it should lessen the signal hop lost.
@@annaingridzuric Explain? Do you assign them to the same channel?
The entire point of the extender function is for those that can’t feasibly lead a cable to where they’d like an AP. Not necessarily “using it wrong.”
Exactly I can’t hook up an Ethernet cable from my living room from all the way to my bedroom downstairs so I’m thinking of plugging the Wi-Fi extender by my ps4 then Ethernet cable ps4 to extender
@@ricardoruiz6329 I know a lot of people that have done this due to dead zone locations
Very informative. Thanks man!
Thanks for this very informative video... What THE COMPANIES will not tell you! (And i LOVE the Hulk 181 and Biohazard Sign - i actually have BOTH in MY OFFICE :D)
good taste!!!😂 thanks for watching and hanging out here!
@@LironSegev if I get a 3000 mbps wifi extender and don’t use these tips will the mbps stay the same?? Also it says it works with wifi so does that mean it works with any wifi?
@@LironSegev for my ps4 should I use a wifi booster or extender
Which extender and repeater did you use in this test?
i use an Extender, and i use the existing disused coax cable to connect the router, and i have a cat5e cable from the extender to my desktop. Coax gives you a 3.5Gigabit/second instead of a 1Gps backhaul with LAN. It makes a big difference because I was only getting 5ooMbpsup/down with LAN, and with coax it's consistantly 950-980mbps close the advertised 1Gbps. So, if you used to have cable in your home and don't susbscribe anymore, but still have the cables left, same goes for satellite, this is a very easy option for you. Just wanted to share in hopes that it may help someone. Love you liron!
Informative video, thank you for posting!
If they are using the terms interchangeably how do you differentiate between them when you are selecting? I have seen extenders that actually also say repeater in the title. Can you provide a link to an actual repeater?
Extenders will let you connect an ethernet (LAN) cable to it. Repeaters don't.
Most extenders can be set-up to act as a repeater, as shown @ 3:32. Repeaters usually only have one function.
Also, most modern routers can be set-up to act as either an extender or a repeater, so if you happen to have a spare, try to use that first.
So in conclusion: Router > Extender > Repeater.
a wireless extender and repeator do the same thing, what you need to understand is how it works! there is Desense when you do it wirelessly!.. think of it this way, your in a room with 500 people yelling and your trying to only hear your 1 friend yelling at you, its hard wirelessly.. BUT if you phone him (wired connection) you can talk to him clearly!! What you need to do wirelessly is to setup the extender to router in 5G and have connections to the extender in 2.4G! this will greatly increase your speed!.. i could write it all out but would take several pages!!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍🏼
My pleasure!
Everything on amazon uses the word Extender and Repeater but many appear to only be Repeaters. Does anyone have a link to a true extender I can hardwire as explained? Thank you!
Thank you! Short sweet and to the point. Exactly what I needed.
Appreciate you being here 🔥
Thank you for this. It helped a lot.
Thanks! I always wondered if there was such a thing as a repeater. I've seen extenders but not the repeaters you mentioned. I will look for one.
Glad to help - Repeaters are ok but since the price of Extenders has come right down, you may want to look at those so you have more flexibility. Thanks for hanging out here!
Just moving my router worked out okay. Thanks for clearing my mind about such a device though. I enjoyed seeing your test between the two different devices.
Hi Liron, Really useful video so thanks first of all. I am struggling with the extender repeater use, so thought I would ask a simple question. Lets say I want to link my internet from my router in a linear way over a distance of 300 yards/meters. I have several extender/repeaters to do this. What do i do? Do I link each one via WPS next to the router and then space them out over the distance or do I link each one to the last one and identify each extender separately? If its the latter, how do i do this please? Thanks in anticipation!
Also looking for the same info. I need to wirelessly extend wifi 100 yards outside
@@jtelander there's satalite dishes and also specific wifi repeaters that can pick up signal from far away places. Just need a direct line of sight
@@jtelander ethernet cables are said to be able to work about 100 meters or i guess 110+ yards, I'm no expert but i think if you want to go further something like an ethernet amplifier (or whatever its called) would be less expensive than a series of range extenders.
Very informative. I am so desperate for a strong signal all around my house and workshop, that I pay top dollar for superfast fibre with a guaranteed 300mps, which it is when I'm sat in the same room as the router, but when I move into the upstairs rooms or ouside to my workshop, it drops to as low as 15mps, which is too slow for uploading large files as it takes forevermore. Now I know what I need to buy and how to connect it 👍
What device model worked for you?
thanks Liron trying to get wifi into my shop! going to give this a go
Thanks a lot to clear the ether around the terms Extender and Repeater. 👍
Thanks for the message and hanging out here 👍
Ok, I better understand now, thank you! Question, so the extender needs to be connected directly to my WiFi box? Via a wire? Then you move it away via this wire? Our Wi-Fi is in another room where our desktop is directly connected but farther away from the TV/devices but I don’t want that cord running through house 😩
by WiFi box, I assume you mean your router or modem. Yes. It does. if you don't want to run cable through the house, then look at this: th-cam.com/video/5JG3x-aNg9c/w-d-xo.html
Excellent video - thank you so much. I now know I need a repeater, not an extender, as I won't be able to hard-wire an extender in my home. Thank you! Tom
Most people can't. Its expensive and cumbersome to make a hard wired LAN network with access points on a household to begin with.
buy an extender
the difference in price is ridiculously small if there is one
but with the extender you also get an additional ethernet port (you may need it, you never know)
Thank you, very helpful
Bro! Massively useful! Thanks!!!!!!
Can you have a extender upstairs and one downstairs??
Main Router on 2nd floor
Hi Liron, that told me what I wanted to know, thank you 👍
Appreciate you being here 🔥
Thanks 🙏 a million you’re dope!!!
With some of the companies using the term interchangably, how does one tell the an actual extender that should be plug in to the router vs the repeater that doesn't. When one wants to purchase either. I assume that because an extender should be connected via a wire to the router is has a connection where as the repeater really doesn't. Am I correct?
I didn't really need the info in this video but you are a very enjoyable watch, wishing you and your channel all the best and a lovely new year for us all. :-)
Thank you! You too!
I have a 1200 mbps wifi repeater and it has 4 antennas... you said a good repeater has atleast 2 so I’m guessing mine will work fine hopefully 🤞🏻it’s coming in the mail btw lol
did it work?
Did it work?
Thanks. Very helpful.
You're welcome!
My ISP modem and WiFi router is located in a separate building home office about 100’ from my house. I use old WiFi routers in my house as access points. Seems to work well. I also have several T-Link extenders that are not being used right now.
If you’re only trying to get better signal for one device that’s too far, look into AC Power line adapters. It’s two adapters that each plug into the wall and pair up. Run an Ethernet cord from adapter to router, and another from other adapter to your device. Be sure to connect devices directly to the wall. You will probably lose out on some of your maximum internet speeds, but you will gain the consistency in signal of Ethernet. I don’t know how well these devices would work in combination with an extender the way he was saying run a LAN cable to it, but it could be worth a try. The power line adapters aren’t super expensive and are very easy to set up
agreed - I use this one and its great: th-cam.com/video/5JG3x-aNg9c/w-d-xo.html
I have a TP-Link set that can do 600 Mbps - I originally bought them to bring network up from the basement (Google Fiber ONT) to the upstairs, and it worked fine. I eventually installed ethernet for that . After that, I got an RE200 for pulling WIFI to other rooms - I was never really happy with that, so eventually I got more ethernet and put in a mesh router (paired with the one in the bedroom where my new network central was) and it seems to work MUCH better.
Thanks for the video. I would have expected most people use them because its too difficult getting a cable to the location.
If you could easly get a cable the the spot where the repeater was, you could likely get one stratght to the computer and that would defeat the need for the extender.
Can you rename the extender as the same ssid with your main router/wifi? Since it is lan plugged, it should work as a wireless access point, right?
I have connected my extender without plugging it with a cable. From what I understand this would make it just a repeater. The unit seemed to work fine. I finally got the cable to connect to the extender and now it doesn't work. What have I done wrong?
you need to set up the extender to no longer be a repeater - go into the extender's setup and follow the prompts there.
My wifi is so bad I can't even watch this video without it crashing
I got 1gbps download from my provider. Got a Wavlink AC3000 router n got another router that can receive n transmit at 1gbps as an access point and connected wired, now I’m getting 750mbps-950mbps wired n 500-700mnps wireless!
Get yourself a router that can transmit maximum internet speed (whatever you’re paying for) and use it as an access point instead! Get some long cables n run it through attic or the edges of the wall for best connections. Wireless Extenders and repeaters ain’t worth the plastics they’re made of!
A lot of people don't really understand much about how all this networking stuff works.
When you say your wifi is bad, you are wrong. Your wifi is just the wireless communication between your device and the wireless access point built into your router. That connection ought to be just fine, unless there is some serious radio interference going on, which there probably isn't. But, once your device communicates with your router, your router then relays that communication out of your local network and onto the internet through your service provider.
Now, when it comes to the bandwidth, a wired in-network connection is always the highest bandwidth, wifi's bandwidth is a bit more restricted, and the coaxial or other connection out to the ISP is usually the bottleneck in the network. This is largely because ser ice providers handle a large amount of data, and interestingly enough really don't have infrastructure that is all that much more robust than we do, they just have a lot more of it. So the bandwidth of one fiber optic cable might be divided across an entire neighborhood.
What is most likely going on is one of a few things:
1. Somebody has managed to get on your wifi and is using up all your bandwidth.
2. One of your devices may have a background process you aren't aware is running eating up all your bandwidth (I had this problem myself)
3. Your wifi is recieving some kind of interference, possibly from other wifi signals in the area that are set to the same channel.
4. If none of the above is the case, the problem is likely on your service provider's end.
Thank you so much for this video. It's infuriating how imprecise, and contradictory, pretty much everyone is in their descriptions of these devices. I just need a simple, cheap way to boost the signal from the two farthest spots of my house. I've already got a CAT5e cable running between them so know that would be the best option for an extender but I don't like the idea of having two different networks and my devices getting stuck on one network when walking around (Apple is horrible with that).
Did u figure that out? We had great connectivity them isp visited home and ducked with our box service or router by connecting their laptop and now can’t reach other side of house !!! 🥴🧐
@@RaiseYourVibes333 Yeah, I got a mesh network router and satellite.
Wow I subscribed right away! Thanks so much for this video! I'm still a bit confused though, as the TP-Link RE220 (AC750) WiFi Extender said (in the official manual) that the Ethernet Port is for connecting to another PC, NOT to connect to another Ethernet Switch, which is very confusing to me. If I have a setup that a main WiFi router (w Ethernet ports) being connected to a far away room with LAN (Ethernet) cable and connect to a Ethernet Switch, and the room above that Ethernet Switch is a WiFi Dead Zone. Can I connect a WiFi Extender such as RE220 (via LAN/Ethernet) cable to the Ethernet Switch, to boost WiFi signal using the same SSID, or do I have to create another different SSID for the newly created network for the RE220? Thanks!
Can you tell me which extender you were using in the video?
Yay, a new Liron video!
Thanks very helpful
Tysm, I did not know my extender was in repeater mode, now i can game without lag
problem i run into, is the phone doesn't switch to the stronger device when i move across the house. how do i solve this?
Go and connect it
Check out if your repeater has a feature called wifi roaming. That means that your phone will be able to connect to the router and the repeater without needing to connect manually every time.
Could you do a review on the Tp-link ac2600 wifi extender?
Do you have that one
Dude... Thanks a lot for this info
The part that confuses me is access point usually don’t need their own ssid, they simple provide wifi access in areas where there isn’t wifi, if it requires it’s own ssid it is an extender no matter what it claims it is, correct?
forgot to cover your WAN ip at the end fyi
Is the Tp-Link N300 (Re105) a WiFi extender???
These are great. They work with either an Ethernet cable or a WiFi signal and are easy to set up (I used the phone app). I relay my home WiFi to my office using two of these. I had both a D-Link and a Xiaomi previously and had constant issues using them.
Great video ... thank you
Appreciate you being here 🔥
So I gotta connect a loong lan cable from the living room to my room?
Watch it again.....
@@cassieperry9593 I have the attic to do this
@@silentpuppy5456 I would highly recommend looking into an AC power line adapter if you want consistent internet at a long distance. You will need two Ethernet cables for this setup. Plug 1 cable into router and into 1 adapter and plug the adapter directly into the wall, then take the second adapter and cable and connect it directly to your computer and adapter and plug adapter directly into the wall. You will probably get a lower speed than you may get with WiFi, however, you will get the internet consistency of direct Ethernet.
@@cassieperry9593 me too
When people use a second router wired to the first is this functionally the same as an extender? Is one setup preferable to the other?
First question: Maybe, depends on how they set up their routers, but in most cases yes that is the common reason for doing that, you could with the right routers create a "real" Wireless Network, with bridged SSID, so it is literally the same network being broadcast, but i am not sure these features even exist in common consumer routers, and even then it would be an odd use case, and the "right" way to go about it, would be a proper access point.
Second: Neither is preferable. You will see disconnects when your device has to switch between the networks.
What you should look at for a private use case would be Mesh, which is the "right" way of doing it.
Very informative thanks alot.
than YOU for being here!
Thanks for the clarification!
No worries!
Tell me why I run 16 mgb but I lag all the time
My extender works wirelessly for at least 800 ft how could I run a cable through the city a block away
The extender does not have to be plugged in.
very useful video. thank you sir
Can i use this with only my Samsung smart phone connection only, without a router or computer. I do home inspections, and just wanted to know if only having a phone with internet connection will this work?
Thanks,
I've got my extender in my room upstairs about 3 ft away from my playstation 4 . The router is downstairs in the front room!!! Soooooo it needs to be LAN connected to the router????
It’s always best to run cable to your router for gaming
When it comes to gaming the best stuff is wired alwyas get wired
If your extender is 3 feet from your PS4 there probably isn't much difference in how strong the wifi from your router is at either and you are making the signal go through an extra device for no reason. Like he said you need to have the extender in a good location to pick up the original wifi signal. If you find a place half way between you router and PS4 that would probably give you better results.
You would want to split the difference from the router and your ps4 for placement of the extender for optimum performance without a cable. Me personally I always used wireless for online gaming without any issues but wired is supposed to be better.
what if i connect my ethernet cable from the extender to my pc?
Then it’s using the extender as your internet access point.