Network extenders fall under different names, depending on who you talk to or what company is selling them. They can be called wireless extenders, signal boosters, Wi-Fi range extenders and so on, but effectively, they all do the same thing: extend the signal of your available Wi-Fi network.
Most houses will have one or more dead zones, where the Wi-Fi signal from the router drops to the point of being virtually useless. As we’ve mentioned previously, the Wi-Fi signal is a slave to its environment and can be affected by walls,