Arcadyan KVD21

It definitely took care of the problem which was low signal at the cameras out front. 

Thank You !

I think that might be the answer for me to get my camera outside the garage to work.

I'm using the Netgear Nighthawk Mesh System.  It works very well.  I have three Nest outdoor cameras that are about 4 years old.  I had a problem with two of the cameras that were located outside on the front of the house even when I had FIOS.  I then used a Netgear WiFi extender and it worked.  When I switched to T-Mobile Home Internet, I couldn't get the WiFi extender to communicate with their gateway.  T-Mobile and Netgear both tried to help me but couldn't get it working.  So, I decided to buy the mesh system.

Just curious what kind of mesh Network did you get  ? 

 How old and what kind of cameras do you have?

Everything working good for you ?

Thank you for the reply.  I finally decided that adding a mesh system was the best solution.  So far, the cameras haven't gone offline once.

I tried using an extender a couple of years ago and found them to be a bit problematic. I have not been impressed with most of the extenders I have tried. If you get a good one maybe but one less than $100 maybe just a hit or miss as it if it works. When using an extender the bandwidth between the extender and the router is pretty much half what you might expect. It is not a real good solution to begin with. The capability of the extender also can be part of the equation. The new WI-FI 6 band steering is probably part of the problem the older wireless extenders and adapters take issue with. If the firmware is engineered according to the IEEE specifications on both devices the connection should still work. Of course it is not a perfect world and never will be.

This issue was escalated up to an engineer with T-Mobile but they didn't offer anything except updating the firmware in the extender, which I had already done, and use an Ethernet cable. This worked but couldn't be used because I would have to keep the extender next to the router which doesn't offer any extended range.  You would think that someone at T-Mobile would be knowledgeable enough to offer a solution.

So, problem with cameras joining the WI-FI solved with the mesh system vs an extender. That is probably a much better solution anyway. It seems the 802.11ax implementation of the T-Mobile gateways possibly does not follow the IEEE standard for backward compatibility. If the mesh system is also 802.11ax that would be interesting. The standard is written to account for backward compatibility but some components different vendors use may restrict their ability to fully adhere to the standard or the developers just are not allowed the time to complete a full implementation. It is a common industry problem that vendors push products to market due to competition pressures and the products are not fully mature. The newer wifi 6 implementation pushes performance and it could be some home appliance vendors don't really push to conform to the newer solutions. The goal is to sell more product after all. 

While I appreciate your response, the problem has been getting my WiFi extender to connect to the T-Mobile router and have internet service.  T-Mobile was unable to resolve this issue, so, I took matters into my own hands and installed a WiFi Mesh system.