Your router has a client limit, and it might be a problem for your smart home
…plugs, and sensors, only use the 2.4GHz band because it's budget friendly and has better range. This means that, as a result, even if you have a Wi-Fi 6…
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Why not buy a proper Wi-Fi extender?
Budget Wi-Fi extenders for $20-$40 seemed like an obvious fix, albeit not without flaws. Those Wi-Fi extenders create a separate SSID, need a strong signal to repeat, and deliver less than half the bandwidth. Placing it to repeat the signal enough in a dead zone to help out while maintaining a usable uplink is trickier than it sounds. The ESP32-S3 sidesteps most of that. I flashed the ESP NAT Router firmware and set it up to act as a NAT router — bridging my main network and working as an access point. No subscription, no cloud account, or dedicated app required. The ESP32 costs $10 while the
I extended my Wi-Fi network with this cheap $10 ESP32The US government has banned all consumer routers from foreign countries, and things look dire
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Throwing away your old network equipment is a fool’s errand - here’s what to do with it instead
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