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Extend wireless receiver range
Is there a way to use a U-verse wireless receiver in a location that is about 150 yards away from the WAP? I have a wireless bridge that extends the wifi internet to the location I would like to use the receiver at and I have excellent wifi signal and the internet works great but I was told by an ATT rep on the phone that the wireless receiver has to be within about 40ft of the WAP? With today's technology, there has to be a way to extend the WAP signal to work a U-verse receiver at a longer distance for things like outside parties, etc. Thanks in advance for any help given!
JefferMC
ACE - Expert
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36.8K Messages
3 years ago
You can connect a Wireless Receiver to Ethernet instead of using it wirelessly. Thus, if you had a long Ethernet cable (150 yards is actually 50 yards too far for an Ethernet cable, though), you could do that instead.
Your wireless bridge would work by allowing you to connect to the bridge via Ethernet, if your wireless bridge handled multicast traffic well, which it likely does not.
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coachc21
3 Messages
3 years ago
Update: It actually worked by plugging an ethernet cable into the LAN port on the POE injector from the wireless bridge.
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gr8sho
ACE - Professor
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1.5K Messages
3 years ago
Can you use all functions including time shifting a live stream? @coachc21
Also, what wireless bridge do you have there?
BTW, what the att tech quoted to you is the functionality as it pertains to their WAP solution.
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coachc21
3 Messages
3 years ago
Sorry for the delay. I'm not sure what you mean by time shifting a live stream but if you mean can I pause live tv, then yes I can do that. It is working great!
I used the following Unifi products:
1 Access Point WiFi 6 Long-range
2 airMAX NanoBeam AC 5 GHz Bridges
Hope this helps!
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gr8sho
ACE - Professor
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3 years ago
Yeah, it does, thank you. Typically any products I've tried, albeit limited, that claimed wireless Ethernet backhaul couldn't manage the IGMPv3 protocol support that Uverse IPTV is dependent on. So while you could stream live TV fine, advanced features like time shifting would fail miserably. Nicely done.
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