Do range extenders work with Amplifi Alien routers?
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I'm looking to replace a failing EA9300 and the consensus seems to be that Amplifi routers have the least number of issues. My problem is my DirecTV receivers have to use a WiFi to Ethernet adapter as they are not close to my router Soni have to use a Netgear range extender with an Ethernet port. Will this work with the Amplifi Alien router? If not what will?
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Hi @stephen-o-connell - the Alien is backwards compatible with previous WiFi devices and should work with range extenders
The Alien also has an option to enable a a separate legacy 5GHz radio for enhanced compatibility with some older devices if needed
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@derek-saville Thanks
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Hi @stephen-o-connell - just note that one concern with using older range extenders with a new WiFi-6 router like the Alien is how well clients can roam between them and there may be some glitches as the technology matures
What I have done with the Alien when I needed remote Ethernet ports is enable the secondary WiFi-5 5GHz radio and give it a unique SSID and connect the WiFi extenders to that SSID instead of the main WiFi-6 SSID
This allows your roaming clients to use main WiFi-6 SSID and keeps any extended devices on a separate clean channel, and all devices will still see each other on the network
This has worked well so far for my installation that needed them
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Don't really use it for clients, I use it only as a wireless Ethernet connection for my DirecTV receiver because it doesn't have WiFi support. This enables the whole home DVR functions nothing more. Sounds like it will work fine.
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@stephen-o-connell This should work fine for this case.