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Originally Posted by tc4332
Zyxel came up with some repeaters and I tried three.
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ZyXel is generally a good brand, and they make some good business-grade firewall/routers, but I would usually avoid WiFi repeaters altogether. The problem with repeaters is that they need a good WiFi signal in order to repeat it. Anything less than about 75% signal strength can have a detrimental effect on the reliability of the repeated WiFi link. Also, by retransmitting from one repeater to another, you're creating a WiFi chain, with the chances of connection drops increasing with every link.
My preferred solution for my business customers is to disable the router's inferior WLAN (or, preferably, purchase a business-grade router without WLAN) and use Wireless Access Points. For business-grade access points, Ubiquiti Unifi units are probably some of the best available in my experiance:
https://www.ui.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/
Ideally you will need to run a network cable to each access point, but I have had some success connecting access points via homeplug/powerline adaptors. You will also need a PoE adaptor (power 'injector') to power each of the access points (over the network cable) or a PoE network switch.
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