I'm seeking choices for an outdoor wifi extender that works well with my Xfinity/Comcast Gateway; Ingress Protection of > 63. Any ideas or thoughts? Thanks
You probably won't be very happy with an extender/repeater. They rebroadcast your WiFi signal. They can also drag WiFi performance with re-transmits and are generally pretty slow/lower bandwidth.
Better would be an outdoor WiFi access point. Most are power-over-ethernet, but the eithernet ports on your gateway don't do that, so make sure it comes with a power supply/injector. The IP ratings should be listed in the product description. Better gear is usually rated at 67 or greater.
In all cases, line of site is better and distance matters, so wherever you end up mounting it, should be close to where your outdoor end devices are used most. You got around 100 meters to work with for outdoor cat 6A ethernet from the power injector to your access point if you're going to bury ethernet cable for it.
They all also make a lot of claims about distance, but most of them aren't very true in real world applications and performance degrades quite a bit with distance. The 802.11 standard you select to broadcast will have it's own bandwidth limitations too.
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You probably won't be very happy with an extender/repeater. They rebroadcast your WiFi signal. They can also drag WiFi performance with re-transmits and are generally pretty slow/lower bandwidth.
Better would be an outdoor WiFi access point. Most are power-over-ethernet, but the eithernet ports on your gateway don't do that, so make sure it comes with a power supply/injector. The IP ratings should be listed in the product description. Better gear is usually rated at 67 or greater.
In all cases, line of site is better and distance matters, so wherever you end up mounting it, should be close to where your outdoor end devices are used most. You got around 100 meters to work with for outdoor cat 6A ethernet from the power injector to your access point if you're going to bury ethernet cable for it.
They all also make a lot of claims about distance, but most of them aren't very true in real world applications and performance degrades quite a bit with distance. The 802.11 standard you select to broadcast will have it's own bandwidth limitations too.
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