Eli5: how a wifi extender works.

Question

I don’t think I’m using mine right.

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Answer 1

A WiFi extender is super simple. You send your request for data to your extender, which passes the request on to your router, and it then goes into the usual Internet process.

It’s an extra piece of tech that has to process both the request and response, so it sloes things down, but it increases your range.