Goooner
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Just bought a Ring Video Doorbell. It tells me the wifi signal on the outside of the door is poor, it's about the furthest away from my BT HH6 that it could be, so video from the bell was either poor or non-existent.
Bought a BT Wifi extender 300, managed to get it working after a load of faffing about, didn't pair with the WPS button, had to set it up via Ethernet to my pc.
It did improve things a bit, the signal from the bell now is mainly good, but can go to poor at times, nature of wifi, I guess.
If i plug it in on the side of the room closest to the bell, it's too far from the router to get a good signal.
I've got a network switch on the good side of the room, so my question is, can I plug the extender into my switch using it's Ethernet cable and will it extend the wifi from there which will should in theory have the best possible signal as it's attached directly wired? This is probably a stupid question, but are Ethernet sockets two way? Or would the socket on the extender just be out only to connect to the pc?
Bought a BT Wifi extender 300, managed to get it working after a load of faffing about, didn't pair with the WPS button, had to set it up via Ethernet to my pc.
It did improve things a bit, the signal from the bell now is mainly good, but can go to poor at times, nature of wifi, I guess.
If i plug it in on the side of the room closest to the bell, it's too far from the router to get a good signal.
I've got a network switch on the good side of the room, so my question is, can I plug the extender into my switch using it's Ethernet cable and will it extend the wifi from there which will should in theory have the best possible signal as it's attached directly wired? This is probably a stupid question, but are Ethernet sockets two way? Or would the socket on the extender just be out only to connect to the pc?