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Question

Using a ethernet cable with a wifi extender?

Apr 26, 2018 1:18PM PDT

Hello. I will be working from home soon and I am required to have an ethernet connection with the Mac I'll be receiving. My apartment is about 1300sqft and our Motorola Cable Modem+Router (MG7315) is in the living room with the game stations and tv connected to it via ethernet. I've been looking around at wifi extenders with ethernet cable connectivity such as the Netgear N300 Wi-Fi Range Extender to avoid running an ethernet cable from the front of the apartment to the office space I am in. (I have dogs and I'd rather them not chew or run over the cable) I was coming to this forum to get some help on whether or not using a wifi extender with ethernet port would work as well as an ethernet cable running through my apartment. Thanks in advance!

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Clarification Request
Is the usual WiFi to Ethernet client what you are after?
Apr 26, 2018 1:32PM PDT
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Wifi to Ethernet client, yes
Apr 26, 2018 2:28PM PDT
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While I don't care for "extenders" that one should be fine.
Apr 26, 2018 3:14PM PDT
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Extender
Apr 27, 2018 3:42AM PDT

I don't think that's going to meet the criteria of what your employer wants.

I suspect the company does not want their data being sent over the air where others can read it.

Check with your employer and let them clarify this.

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Good Point
Apr 27, 2018 4:47AM PDT

The organization I work for has a number of people working from home.
They mandated, and paid for, a separate internet line into the house and established a VPN back to HQ

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Wifi Extender Resolution
May 18, 2018 12:34AM PDT

Indeed, however in fact you will make an(other) get to point to your system, not a range augmentation, so you'll require an entrance point (or a WIFI switch with debilitated DHCP and NAT administrations, and for this situation: Do not utilize the WAN port, but rather one of the Ethernet ports to connection to the principle switch).

A range extender retransmits WIFI signals from near to gadgets to an entrance point. An entrance point can be viewed as a WIFI to Ethernet connect.

The new access point can have an indistinguishable SSID from your essential WIFI get to point, so you can fly out from region to region without losing associations.
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