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Question

Very short range wifi extender / router

Mar 20, 2016 3:08AM PDT

Hello,

Can anyone recommend a very short range wifi extender / router. I wish to put it in the attic and only want it to provide wifi to the upper floor of the house.

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Sorry no.
Mar 20, 2016 8:12AM PDT

What most folk do is to change the channels so the two hot spots are not overlapping.

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solved it myself
Mar 20, 2016 3:42PM PDT

I have purchased a Edimax BR-6258nL N150 Wireless Personal Hotspot & Travel Router
A small portable router (£20) so hopefully not that powerfull.
I can set the TX power lever to 1% and that should do it.
If I need to curb it more then I can sit it on a tub of water.