#COMCAST WIFI SIGNAL REPEATER PASSWORD#
You can rebroadcast this signal in your own home with your own AP name and wifi password - totally transparent to yourself, your guests, and your myraid of little home devices that don't support captive portal logins (wemo switches, google home devices, nest cameras, raspberry pis, smart tvs, xboxes, sous vide machines, etc.) Note that whatever internet you use via this method comes out of the account you're using's bucket, so don't be evil!įollow these instructions and you will soon have home wifi that you can connect to using the xfinitywifi AP as your internet backbone. Lets get started! I'll copy and paste snippets from u/gthing's post to build on top of the existing post with my use case and to not force readers of this post to flip back and forth between mine and the original.ĭo you have a neighbor broadcasting an "xfinitywifi" signal, a friend or family member with xfinity internet, a second place that you frequent (ie, partner's, summer home, winter home if you that fancy yet cheap), or need temporary internet because Xfinity screwed up again? Well great news - you got some options. I was prepared for some instability and to have to keep prodding it since it was a temporary setup, but have been very impressed so far. I didn't want to use two routers, and I wanted to get it work using one, if possible, and I managed to get it to work, and it's been rock solid for a week. I was in a situation where I was moving and xfinity, of course, fucked up royally and I didn't have internet at the new place, and I had moving stuff to deal with, and funny, getting this working was faster than the time spent on multiple phone calls and chats with Comcast to get it a) migrated and b) Off the contract they signed me up on without authorization.
#COMCAST WIFI SIGNAL REPEATER HOW TO#
Something like web surfing or watching youtube it doesn't matter.I found u/gthing's post on how to repeat an xfinitywifi signal to your own home WiFi to be really helpful. Even if it does not pick the "best" signal that is more a requirement for someone who need high performance out of the network. In most cases the end device is smart enough to always use the best signal. I would just set the SSID and password the same as the main router if you want it simple. I guess the only exception would be if it is one of the so called extenders that does not have a ethernet port. Still if you have a so called range extender already it may be worth reading the documentation it is highly likely that device can run in AP mode. Almost all modern routers have this, some call it bridge mode. Your best option is to buy a inexpensive router and run it in AP mode. I mean you have to go in and set things like passwords on any device. Most glass unless it has special coatings wifi goes though easy. It is all the wood/brick etc that blocks the signal. If you were to place the AP so you could see it from outside though a window that tends to be the best indoor placement. So the signals could get to the device from the AP but not get back. The problem would be more the IPAD might not put out the maximum power to save on battery.
A person tends to be smarter than the end device but some people don't want to deal with changing stuff when they move from room to room.Īll router/ap more or less put out the maximum allowed legal power. If they are different then you can manually control which if your devices connect to what radio source. If they are the same the end device will attempt to use the best signals. You can make the SSID the same or different than your main router. The so called extender you already have also likely can be made to run as a simple AP. Pretty much any router can run in AP mode. You do not actually need a real AP unless for example you want to power it over the ethernet cable.
What you want is to run a AP in the remote room. It is actually trivial once you get the cable run. You do not see so called mesh in corporate installations. Using wired connection back to the main router is way commerical wifi is installed. Your plan to run a wire via the basement is the best option. A mesh routers is the same thing as a so called range extender/repeater.
Sounds like you were talking to a tech company that wanted to rip you off, or more likely just some incompetent person that thought they knew what they were doing.
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