What is the difference between a wifi booster and WiFi extender?
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What is the difference between a wifi booster and WiFi extender?
The terms are used loosely and often wrongly for the different devices. The booster should more properly be called a repeater, it picks up the routers signal and sends it out again so extending the reach, so it may be called an extender. Then some devices are sold as extenders when they are really wireless access points either wired back to the router or connected to it using powerline ethernet extenders. The access point devices have a slight advantage as the repeaters make the connections in two wi-fi hops, the access point is one hop and a section of ethernet.
Some times I get confused when it comes to telling the difference between the WiFi extender and WiFi booster? In fact, WiFi extenders and WiFi boosters are nearly the same devices to elevate WiFi coverage. Even though there aren’t any clearly defined differences between WiFi extenders and WiFi boosters, they don’t perform the exact same way.