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This could go in the travel (camping) forum, but I figured it's safer here in "other".
I'm going camping and we have an outdoor karaoke thing planned. The problem is that the place where we'll gather (let's call it the "venue") is just a bit too far from the place where the cable comes in, and where the wifi router is.
So, not having ever had any experience with range extenders, I wanted to know, could I just drag an extension cord about halfway between where the wifi router is and the venue? (and plug-in the extender there and try to keep it dry). Obviously the repeater needs to be within range of the source wifi router. I know that signal does extend some distance outside.
There will not be a lot of 2.4Ghz traffic, I don't suppose, so getting one with 5GHz probably isn't that important. And not too many devices will be on it.
Anybody have real-world outdoor wifi range extension experience?
I'm going camping and we have an outdoor karaoke thing planned. The problem is that the place where we'll gather (let's call it the "venue") is just a bit too far from the place where the cable comes in, and where the wifi router is.
So, not having ever had any experience with range extenders, I wanted to know, could I just drag an extension cord about halfway between where the wifi router is and the venue? (and plug-in the extender there and try to keep it dry). Obviously the repeater needs to be within range of the source wifi router. I know that signal does extend some distance outside.
There will not be a lot of 2.4Ghz traffic, I don't suppose, so getting one with 5GHz probably isn't that important. And not too many devices will be on it.
Anybody have real-world outdoor wifi range extension experience?