ASUS RT-AC53 AC750 Dual Band WiFi Router (Black) with high Power Design, VPN Server and time scheduling

any suggestion for a wifi range extender repeater with dual-band support?

pradeep.gr wrote:

any suggestion for a wifi range extender repeater with dual-band support?

Best option is to use any typical wifi router as wired extender or use some cheap wifi router as wireless extender if it has wds feature.

guest_999 wrote:

Best option is to use any typical wifi router as wired extender or use some cheap wifi router as wireless extender if it has wds feature.

I already have a TP-Link Archer C5 router from Act broadband, it has WDS feature but it is somehow unable to detect the 5ghz Fifi hotspot!!!
It worked for 1st day, but from next day it was unable to detect that 5ghz connection, I tried multiple times with reset.

pradeep.gr wrote:

I already have a TP-Link Archer C5 router from Act broadband, it has WDS feature but it is somehow unable to detect the 5ghz Fifi hotspot!!!
It worked for 1st day, but from next day it was unable to detect that 5ghz connection, I tried multiple times with reset.

Did you fix the 5GHz wifi channel to same in both wifi hotspot & C5? If devices are set to auto in channel settings then wds won’t work because one of the device will shift to a different channel. If both the devices are from same manufacturer(or even better same model) then it usually works even with auto channel setting as both devices shift to same channel after channel change.

guest_999 wrote:

Did you fix the 5GHz wifi channel to same in both wifi hotspot & C5? If devices are set to auto in channel settings then wds won’t work because one of the device will shift to a different channel. If both the devices are from same manufacturer(or even better same model) then it usually works even with auto channel setting as both devices shift to same channel after channel change.

once we select the hotspot, it always showing option to set both at same channel! 

but now issue is that it is not detecting the hotspot to connect! 

pradeep.gr wrote:

once we select the hotspot, it always showing option to set both at same channel! 

but now issue is that it is not detecting the hotspot to connect! 

I am suspecting some connectivity issue. Use some app like this one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=c...

to confirm that both devices wifi 5Ghz are on same channel.

guest_999 wrote:

Best option is to use any typical wifi router as wired extender or use some cheap wifi router as wireless extender if it has wds feature.

buy a lan cable and use other router 

c5 is a good router 

Blackvip3r wrote:

buy a lan cable and use other router 

c5 is a good router 

Sometimes it is not possible to connect via ethernet wire & there the wds feature comes in handy.

Blackvip3r wrote:

buy a lan cable and use other router 

c5 is a good router 

but here are some conditions to use only the wds method.