Because radio bands are shared with other users, interference from other radio signals can affect your Mac’s WiFi’s performance. Unfortunately, if you do get interference, you are usually on your own. However, you can take steps to combat interference and other signal problems: Move your laptop. The quickest solution to wireless coverage woes is to add a Wi-Fi extender, which is a specialized repeater that boosts the wireless coverage to those portions of your home that your router just.

I have a decent size house with 3 above ground floors with a Netgear R6700v2 router stationed on the second floor. Using macros to create a submit button for word document on a mac mac. Since the first floor has spotty WIFI coverage (the second and third floors have adequate WIFI coverage) I decided to obtain a Meco WIFI repeater. In testing the signal from various locations with speedtest.net, I achieve the following results: Communicating with the Netgear router only, my average download Mbps speed is 48 and my average upload Mbps speed is 33 all over the house. When I install (plug in) the repeater on the first floor, even standing right on top of it, I only average 13 download and 9 upload Mbps.

Are these stats reasonable for a wireless repeater? If so, then I'm not sure of its benefit. I agree, if at all possible set up a wireless access point connected to the main router via an ethernet cable (or powerline adapter). A repeater or range extender uses half its capacity communicating with the router and the other half with your devices. Some repeaters/range extenders may be capable of being set up as access points as is another wireless router if one is available, but there are dedicated access points (AP's) on the market that will do even better at it. Freemake video converter download for windows 10. My first experience with them was when I purchased a range extender and the capabilities listed that it could do this but the included quick set up instructions did not cover this so I downloaded the manual from their web site which did have the instructions and set up was simple as an AP.

Since then I set up a group of 4 AP's to solve a very hard to Wifi large retail location using enterprise level AP's and that works amazingly well. You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.

If I were you I would just disable the MAC filtering on the router - it doesn't significantly enhance your security, and in this case, it's just creating a headache. The reason I say it doesn't enhance security is that it is very easy to bypass.

Let's look though at this 'virtual MAC address' concept - which quite frankly I would see to believe. > just disable the MAC filtering on the router - it doesn't significantly enhance your security I didn't know that was true. > Let's look though at this 'virtual MAC address' concept - which quite frankly I would see to believe.

Check out 'NETGEAR WiFi Range extender, wirelessly connected to the router, the MAC addresses of all the connected wired and wireless clients will be replaced by a virtual address.' The EX6200 assigns a unique virtual MAC address to each device connected to it. If you use MAC filtering on the main router you would need to add each of the virtual MAC addresses to the filter list. From the EX6200 Attached Devices help page: Virtual MAC Address: This is the MAC address of your wireless devices observed from your extender. The MAC addresses of all of the devices that are attached to the Extender will be changed to virtual MAC addresses when traffic is transmitting from the devices to your extender. If your extender enables a MAC filter/Access control list, you must add these Virtual MAC addresses into your extender.