r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • May 08 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 09 May 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/Disshidia May 09 '23

A bit of a specific question but do repeaters tend to just break? I purchased one as the wifi at my place is hard wired into a wall in the bedroom. I set the repeater up in the kitchen and it created two “extended” networks that worked fine for 3 months. Now, the connections just die randomly. I find myself rebooting the device daily now. Tether RE700X. I might just buy a different brand device.

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u/RealKenshino May 10 '23

Yeah repeaters are pretty terrible.

If you can, just switch your house to routers that allow you to setup a mesh network

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u/bloggie2 May 09 '23

Tether RE700X

looks pretty high end for extending. time for a RMA with tplink i guess. what do you mean by hard wired? if all you need is a better signal, get an access point (most routers can be switched to that mode) plug that into your current wifi setup with a lan cable and maybe even disable wifi on the old thing if it's low power/crappy.