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Medion Wireless WIFI Extender

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  • 24-12-2014 10:10pm
    #1
    tom_tarbucket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,083 ✭✭✭


    HI,

    recently in Aldi, I bought a Medion Wireless WIFI Extender.

    the parents live in a big house. and in my bedroom the wi fi signal is bad and I only get 1 bar, sometimes none at all.
    parents just have a DSL line and a vodafone wireless modem

    so I just want to boost the wifi signal to my bedroom.

    I bought the Medion Wireless WIFI Extender.

    something like this : http://download5.medion.com/downloads/anleitungen/bda_md86738au.pdf


    The instructions are absolutely sh1te, they are very unclear,
    It says it can be used in 3 modes

    > repeater
    > a client
    > access point

    It is unclear from the instructions how I should set this up, I presume for my needs, I need to set it up as a " repeater"


    can anyone advice ?


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    #2
    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Repeaters are ****e. Medion are ****e.

    Go buy some AV200 homeplugs.


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    tom_tarbucket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,083 ✭✭✭tom_tarbucket


    ED E wrote: »
    Repeaters are ****e. Medion are ****e.

    Go buy some AV200 homeplugs.


    yeah.

    the instructions said to press the "wps" button on the medion plug and then press the "wps" button on the Vodafone modem.

    that didn't seem to do much, in fact it seemed to disable the Vodafone wireless........I could not find the Vodafone network anymore on my smartphone.

    fixed again by just guessing at pressing the "wifi" button on the Vodafone modem.


    tried to connect to the newly created "repeater" wireless network and no luck either.


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    tom_tarbucket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,083 ✭✭✭tom_tarbucket


    ED E wrote: »
    Repeaters are ****e. Medion are ****e.

    Go buy some AV200 homeplugs.

    do these av 200's work with Wifi on smart phones ?

    or are they purely for wired connections


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    AV200 is a specification. Some come with ethernet ports only, some come with Wifi too(in 1 of the two plugs).

    eg:
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WPA281KIT-Powerline-Configuration-Smartphone/dp/B00ECBRGW8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1419798867&sr=8-4&keywords=AV200


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    tom_tarbucket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,083 ✭✭✭tom_tarbucket


    ED E wrote: »
    AV200 is a specification. Some come with ethernet ports only, some come with Wifi too(in 1 of the two plugs).

    eg:
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WPA281KIT-Powerline-Configuration-Smartphone/dp/B00ECBRGW8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1419798867&sr=8-4&keywords=AV200


    oh ok, thanks for that.


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    hughowen
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    Hi, I am looking at this too and was wondering if I am right in the following..
    I have Sky Fibre in one room and in another room I use an Ipad and signal is very poor. I can buy this and Plug into the room where my Router is and plug the other into the other room where the bad signal is,it would it increase the signal?. One other question is, do I have to connect ethernet cable from the router to this in the first instance or is it totally wifi

    Hugh


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    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    hughowen wrote: »
    Hi, I am looking at this too and was wondering if I am right in the following..
    I have Sky Fibre in one room and in another room I use an Ipad and signal is very poor. I can buy this and Plug into the room where my Router is and plug the other into the other room where the bad signal is,it would it increase the signal?. One other question is, do I have to connect ethernet cable from the router to this in the first instance or is it totally wifi

    Hugh

    Yes you would connect the router via cable to the "first" adapter - then depending on how you use the adapters you can connect the second adapter via ethernet to a laptop for example or set up the wifi connection for something like an ipad. In effect you are using the electricity wiring as a "substitute" for a long ethernet cable.

    Be careful that the general advice is that adapters should only be used in the main socket and not in extension leads so it might be as well to consider models that feature a pass through socket.


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    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    ED E wrote: »
    AV200 is a specification. Some come with ethernet ports only, some come with Wifi too(in 1 of the two plugs).

    eg:
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WPA281KIT-Powerline-Configuration-Smartphone/dp/B00ECBRGW8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1419798867&sr=8-4&keywords=AV200


    so I plug one end into my router, and the other plugin where i want to boost my wi-fi, will this be wi-fi or i need to conect via cable still?


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