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Good morning all.
I have no cable/landline, so all my Internet is via my mobile phone and I use the hotspot. This works perfectly adequate for most of my other devices/requirements but can be a bit sketchy for some of the devices further away from the phone. I don't want another contract/sim or to take the sim out of my phone.
I have been told that I could use a repeater (re200) to connect to the phones hotspot and then connect the problem devices to that... Is that absolutely correct?
Also, and this would possibly be even better, I have been told that I could use a router in "bridge mode" to achieve the same thing, again is this correct and which dual band routers support this?
What I am hoping for is this :-
Phone hotspot>>>(wifi) >>> router >>> (wifi) >>> devices.
This way the router is doing all the hard work.
Thank you in anticipation.
Chris
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Here's a list of routers that support 'Range Extender' mode or WDS feature which you could use for this scenario.
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Thank you very much.
Do you happen to know if any of the devices in the lists can access 5ghz channel 149?
My Samsung phone can only operate 5ghz/149 (cannot be changed) and I have tried a couple of extenders/repeaters and they cannot see 149.
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Not sure which routers from this list will be able to meet this requirement.
If the router is with a 'US' region FW - this could be checked on the device's bottom sticker, it's quite possible that it supports channel 149.
Check this thread - it contains a screenshot from Archer C54, wich supports channel 149. I would assume that Archer C64 would support it too.
Check my reply in your other thread for more details on that matter.
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To work with a mobile hotpot Wi-Fi you could try a Wi-Fi range extender (recommended) or router that support Repeater /Extender mode instead of a router that uses WDS feature (WDS may be incompatible between different products mentioned in FAQ here).
To use channel 149, as @terziyski mentioned, you need to find a (US) version product, as (EU) version does not support Band4 channel 149 , learn more details from here Notice for the (EU )Version TP-Link Range Extenders
As mobile hotspot is not stably as a Wi-Fi router personally, I recommended considering a 4Ghz Wi-Fi router and put the SIM in a router directly for a more stable connection.
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Thanks for sharing more information, if Samsung phone 5Ghz uses channel 149, range extender (EU) can only work with 2.4Ghz of Hotspot then.
Hope you can find a suitable product soon.
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