Great price on this device. Price in title inclusive of GST.
The built-in double antenna transmission of the WiFi Amplifier Network Repeater, has been upgraded to 300Mbps, making the performance equivalent to a mainstream router. The range of the Wi-Fi repeater is able to deliver stable connections for up to 16 devices while eliminating any Wi-Fi dead zones in your home.
The Xiaomi boasts a simplistic design with only the logo and status indicators engraved on the front panel.
hey burkey - ordered one but not sure how to use it…- have it configured thru MI Home App.. now what? :-p
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Does it require an account to be made with Xiaomi in order to use it/setup?
Yes, easy to set up.
Will it work with any wifi network or just xiaomi router
Any
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Wow, wish I knew that
This site needs a simple "delete comment" button. The current system is a terrible design.
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Works well!
can you schedule on/off with the MiHome app for this device?
Nope.
This is very confusing, but it looks like a product that would be useful to me. I want to extend my wifi range just a little further into my yard.
Does this need to be plugged into the device using it or does it make/duplicate the current router?
Is it placed in the midpoint? Or just extends from the router?
I bought 2x last time and 1x was confirmed lost by AU post - what's the process now?
After dealing with repeaters for the last 5 years as a technician be aware of the following:
1> For this to be at all effective you need to place it between the router and the place you want the WiFi. If you have NO SIGNAL with just the router at that place, you can't repeat the signal either.
2> Repeating the signal effectively halves (or less) the existing throughput. So if you're router can give you say 40Mbps as an example expect to get only 20 or less at your final destination. Nature of the beast repeaters merely repeat the signal as in the name. It's a send receive on the same wireless band doubling the traffic/halving the speed. You may mitigate this to some extend by having the router for example only on 5Ghz and the repeater only repeating on 2.4Ghz but it kinda defeats the purpose of having a multiband router in the first place.
I'm not a fan - I frequently see problems: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/988492-why-don-t-wi-f…
By all means if you want quick and dirty extending your network go for it don't let my dislike of these devices stop you, but I'd really like to suggest a big arse ceiling mounted access point (Ubiquiti etc) to simply cover the whole house (my brother has 2 storey mansion and one device covers EVERYTHING), or a good mesh Network, the Orbi was recently reviewed with excellent speeds as it uses Tri-Band technology and has it's own wireless backhaul (no interference on user channels).
Please don't flame me down, I'm seriously just giving my experiences over the last 5 years with people buying these then wondering why Netflix buffers so much on the wireless TV at the end of the house. If you're just going to e-mail/browse these devices are fine but I would personally never use one for serious networking.
Thanks for the detailed reply, for my particular situation - there was no WiFi signal for a back room so it was impossible to read a OZB text let alone get media … so this did the trick and provided a strong signal and enough throughput.
Couldn't you grab a few old routers and connect them via powerline adapters?
That's actually a better way to do things PROVIDED your two power points you wish to network are:
1> On the same circuit
2> You plug directly in to the wall. (Not through power board)
If either of the above can't be done they will not work at 100% capacity/efficiency. They should still work though.
And you will have to make sure the routers (which effectively become access points - switch off the actual routing!!!) are on different frequencies otherwise they'll interfere with each other, slowing each other down.
Look if you own the house best thing is to Ethernet wire it. No doubt about it. Wires beats wireless always.
Failing that a decent ceiling mounted access point in the middle of the house wired back to the router.
Mesh networking also decent choice but try to grab one with it's own segregated data back haul.
Again, just from experience. I'm very anal though I want my networks to work 100% reliably and fast. And it's my job to do that for my customers, but please don't take that as gospel. I've seen some installations that left me scratching my head how it worked but it did. :)
Oh, and keep it simple. With the powerline devices and routers you've just added another 4 points of possible failure.
Have a couple of these around my house to cover blackspots - works well, pretty damned simple to configure with the Mi Home app.