I hope someone will find the video useful. I’m adverse to throwing out a good piece of equipment when you can make it relevant with a little reconfiguring. Not sure why boosters don’t work particularly well but I don’t need one for now. Thanks for commenting.
@@wtam69 Boosters take an already weak signal, have to pick that up, and rebroadcast it. Since the booster will usually be placed in a fringe area where the signal isn't great to begin with, there is going to be data loss in the packets sent. Error correction will take care of some of that, the rest will be requested to be resent. All of that results in slow data transfer speeds. Once packets are properly received, they have to be processed and rebroadcast. All of this adds additional latency. So while a booster will definitely make the signal stronger for the receiving computer, it does so at the expense of speed. Meanwhile the computer will be showing the user it's connected at full speed, full signal. giving the illusion that everything is working fine. By wiring in another device to broadcast from a different location within the home, you eliminate all of that, and it's as good as you're being connected to the original router. (Yes, there are still losses due to latency and another network "hop" that has to be made, but the difference is mostly negligible.)
no matter what i did, my router would not accept 220 IP address !! i have the same router in the video.. I tried several different numbers, none worked unfortunately .. so gave up !! :(
Yeah so it seems he skipped a part. After the part where he says to click on my network then connection properties BEFORE clicking on “settings” instead click on the “IP Address Distribution:” link. On the next screen click action then from the dropdown menu for IP address Distribution select “disable”. Then click yes it will log you out but just log back in and then follow his directions from the start and when you get back to the connection properties then click settings and try to change the IP address. It should work now. A screen pops up that said please wait while we make the changes or whatever and then lagged out so I tried to refresh it but it didn’t open the page again so I tried typing in the new IP address that I chose into the internet search bar and it brought me back to the Verizon site. I used the admin user with the same password on the outside of the router and it logged back in but now the IP address for the router was changed so it twerked.
Excellent. That is the only proper way to extend a wi-fi signal. No amount of boosters or antennas can do what a proper setup like this can.
I hope someone will find the video useful. I’m adverse to throwing out a good piece of equipment when you can make it relevant with a little reconfiguring. Not sure why boosters don’t work particularly well but I don’t need one for now. Thanks for commenting.
@@wtam69 Boosters take an already weak signal, have to pick that up, and rebroadcast it. Since the booster will usually be placed in a fringe area where the signal isn't great to begin with, there is going to be data loss in the packets sent. Error correction will take care of some of that, the rest will be requested to be resent. All of that results in slow data transfer speeds. Once packets are properly received, they have to be processed and rebroadcast. All of this adds additional latency. So while a booster will definitely make the signal stronger for the receiving computer, it does so at the expense of speed. Meanwhile the computer will be showing the user it's connected at full speed, full signal. giving the illusion that everything is working fine. By wiring in another device to broadcast from a different location within the home, you eliminate all of that, and it's as good as you're being connected to the original router. (Yes, there are still losses due to latency and another network "hop" that has to be made, but the difference is mostly negligible.)
Wow, that’s a great explanation of merits of a Wi-Fi booster. Buyers beware.
@@wtam69 In a couple of months, I'll have an Old War Story where I mention such a scenario.
@@jaykay18 looking forward to watching the episode.
Also, when completed, GET IN THE CHOPPA
no matter what i did, my router would not accept 220 IP address !! i have the same router in the video.. I tried several different numbers, none worked unfortunately .. so gave up !! :(
Range of numbers from 0 to 255. Maybe someone can explain why it’s not working for you.
It’s not working for me either I think it’s because the OP never showed how to disable dhcp settings on the router
Yeah so it seems he skipped a part. After the part where he says to click on my network then connection properties BEFORE clicking on “settings” instead click on the “IP Address Distribution:” link. On the next screen click action then from the dropdown menu for IP address Distribution select “disable”. Then click yes it will log you out but just log back in and then follow his directions from the start and when you get back to the connection properties then click settings and try to change the IP address. It should work now. A screen pops up that said please wait while we make the changes or whatever and then lagged out so I tried to refresh it but it didn’t open the page again so I tried typing in the new IP address that I chose into the internet search bar and it brought me back to the Verizon site. I used the admin user with the same password on the outside of the router and it logged back in but now the IP address for the router was changed so it twerked.
@@nicktoth1753 thank you.. tried a few times, resetting the router, and all.. finally got it to work..
appreciate it