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Network Extenders: What are they, how do they work?

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,

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