Easy to setup Wifi Range Extender

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Easy to setup Wifi Range Extender

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Wifi range extenders used to suck. They would only work with certain brands of routers, and only on certain days when the wind blew from the east. Times have changed.

Had a friend, who is a non-techie, who bought one of these to extend the range of his router. It was very easy for a noob to setup. Quick and painless, with a simple touch screen interface. The unit has good reviews on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Amped-Wireless-Sc ... B00O4VADT4

And there's a good review on PCMag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2c2817% ... 1%2c00.asp
NOTE: There is now a Version TAP-EX2 version that supports 5GHz in addition to 2.4GHz.

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For those of us that are a bit more techie, this model from the same company is supposed to be just about the best range extender there is:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2c2817% ... 0%2c00.asp
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Okay, actually got to set one of these up today, although it was the more expensive dual-band gigabit version. This one:
http://www.amazon.com/Amped-Wireless-Sc ... B015G2JWKA

VERY easy to setup. It scans for networks, you pick your networks (two of them if you have both 2.5 and 5 GHz), enter the Wifi passwords, and then you have an option to clone the SSID and passwords.

For some reason it wants to default to a different SSID (it takes the original SSID name and adds "_RE" to the end of it for the cloned network. However, you can manually override that. I did, and named the cloned repeater network the same as the original. It let me do it and it works fine. This allows your devices to seamlessly connect whichever network has the stronger signal.
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Oops. yeah, looks like I linked to the router version instead of the Range Extender. I'll correct.

There's a comparison of models on the Amped web site:
http://www.ampedwireless.com/family/tapseries.html
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