Pretty much any extender should work. AT&T will rent you up to 3 extenders for a monthly fee of $10/month.
Though I will make my standard disclaimer here that you should connect your extender back to the router using wired Ethernet, making them Access Points rather than allowing them to use up more of your Wi-Fi spectrum sending the data to and from the base Wirelessly.
If you cannot connect them via wired Ethernet, also note that you have to put them in an area that has good Wi-Fi signal closeto the area that does not have good Wi-Fi signal that you want the extender to cover; putting them in the area that needs help will not allow them to communicate with the base.
We use a TP-link RE300 with the BGW210-700. It works pretty well for our usage scenario which I'll describe in case it is helpful: The reason we're using this extender is because one of our directv-stream devices+tv is located on the far end of the apartment from the gateway device, and it was buffering frequently. The directv-stream tv box displayed a yellow network status indicator LED, indicating poor connection speeds. It was the only device in the household with this issue.
We setup the TP-Link RE300 midway between the gateway and problem device, and configured it in "High Speed Mode" so that it is "Extender to Client" in 5GHz mode only (It uses the 2.4GHz band "Router to Extender" aka wireless backhaul). Then we configure the problem directv-stream box to always connect to the TP-Link extender's network. This mode is not necessarily the best choice for every user's needs, but it works great for us because that one tv streaming device is the only device using the extender's network, while all of our other devices can get a strong signal directly from the gateway so they use the gateway's wifi network directly, primarily on the 5GHz bands.
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3 years ago
Pretty much any extender should work. AT&T will rent you up to 3 extenders for a monthly fee of $10/month.
Though I will make my standard disclaimer here that you should connect your extender back to the router using wired Ethernet, making them Access Points rather than allowing them to use up more of your Wi-Fi spectrum sending the data to and from the base Wirelessly.
If you cannot connect them via wired Ethernet, also note that you have to put them in an area that has good Wi-Fi signal close to the area that does not have good Wi-Fi signal that you want the extender to cover; putting them in the area that needs help will not allow them to communicate with the base.
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TambaKC
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3 years ago
We use a TP-link RE300 with the BGW210-700. It works pretty well for our usage scenario which I'll describe in case it is helpful: The reason we're using this extender is because one of our directv-stream devices+tv is located on the far end of the apartment from the gateway device, and it was buffering frequently. The directv-stream tv box displayed a yellow network status indicator LED, indicating poor connection speeds. It was the only device in the household with this issue.
We setup the TP-Link RE300 midway between the gateway and problem device, and configured it in "High Speed Mode" so that it is "Extender to Client" in 5GHz mode only (It uses the 2.4GHz band "Router to Extender" aka wireless backhaul). Then we configure the problem directv-stream box to always connect to the TP-Link extender's network. This mode is not necessarily the best choice for every user's needs, but it works great for us because that one tv streaming device is the only device using the extender's network, while all of our other devices can get a strong signal directly from the gateway so they use the gateway's wifi network directly, primarily on the 5GHz bands.
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