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Appleo11

Appleo11

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I have a router with 2 antennas. Should I buy a range extender from cisco or buy cisco 4 antennas router. Which is better and why?
 
What exact model of router do you have now? Are you not getting good signal throughout the house?
 
Amount of antennas is irrelevant unless you're also accounting for spatial streams.

What size of an area are you trying to cover? What router do you have now?

I'd personally avoid range extenders at all costs as they destroy your wireless performance, you'd be much better off using a wired access point if you need additional wifi coverage.
 
Please post the model of router you have currently. Also on each post is an edit button below your actual post. Please use it to edit your post instead of creating a new one.
 
The problem you have is that its a modem and router all in one. You either need to request one from them that has external antenna or find a modem which is compatible with your provider and then buy a good wireless router with a couple external antenna's.
 
Alternatively you could utilize 'bridge mode' on the existing device to use it just as a modem, then place whatever router you would prefer in front of it to handle routing, wireless and the upstream PPPoE session for DSL.
 
Pretty much all consumer wireless routers using the same 802.11 standard will get around the same range. Ones with external antennas will work a bit better, but you aren't going to get a huge increase. If you have lots of area to cover, or have to deal with thick materials such as concrete, your best bet is to add an additional access point which is connected back to your router/switch via ethernet. Wireless range extenders decrease performance.
 
Okedokey said:
Not true, they use different chips and software.... simply not true geoff,
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Different chips and software? Now I know you have no idea what you're talking about.

I'm talking about your average consumer wireless router. When comparing ones using the same specification, such as 802.11ac, there are restrictions manufacturers need to adhere to, such as maximum EIRP. Yes there are different chipsets, however you aren't going to notice much difference between models as far as range alone is concerned. The next issue is clients are typically lower powered, especially mobile devices, so regardless of being able to illegally boost the power levels of a wireless router/AP, your client will not be heard any better by the AP.

The only advantage you'd have is the slight improvement by using MIMO with multiple external antennas.
 
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