WiFi Range Extender

[bkiggin]

I've been looking around for WiFi range extenders for about a day and none of them have what I want, basically I just upgraded my broadband to 100mb and with that upgrade they sent out this router http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/wireless-broadband/super-hub.html that lead me to think that all the deadzones in my house will be covered, wrong, my house is basically rock solid when it comes to concrete walls. What I was looking for was a device that allowed you to plug an ethernet cable in (like a second router but smaller) and that gives off its own WiFi instead of boosting the original, but would also like if it could clone the existing router so that you don't have to re-enter your password or stay connected to the other one with having like 1 bar, does such a device exist or am I too ignorant?

 

[abailey]

Yes a wireless AP or a wireless router set up as an AP can do what you want, except the part about staying connected to one AP with 1 bar instead of connecting to the AP with the more powerful signal. Only expensive enterprise systems can really do this correctly. Now some devices (like laptops) usually have a setting you can change on them that will tell them how low of a signal to hang on to before they try to connect to another. Sadly there is usually not such a setting on handheld devices. If you do get an AP or a router to use as an AP, you just set the SSID and password the same as your existing wireless (but use a different channel from the one your current wireless is using).