Home Internet and wifi extender

Just curious I have the new t mobile home internet gateway is there a good cheap booster to make the signal  distance long and better 

The extender doesn’t reduce speed by 50% or very much at all. 

Rob628 wrote:

Just curious I have the new t mobile home internet gateway is there a good cheap booster to make the signal  distance long and better 

I am wondering the same and hoping for an answer in plain, non-tech-expert language. ¡Gracias!

Did you ever get an answer? I'm wondering the same thing. Gracias

I can't get Netgear or TP-Link extenders to work. Blocks main 2.4 connection until I turn off extender. Tried the factory reset twice on each one. Probably some tiny simple but can figure it out. Any suggestions?

I split my home internet into 2 networks, 2.4 and 5G. I had to for Roku to work. Now what extender works to get better signal in a farther off room? Will an over-electric-circuit work better than wifi? Will either the former connected to gateway with Ethernet or latter pick up both networks?

Ted wrote:

Did you ever get an answer? I'm wondering the same thing. Gracias

Did you ever find anything out? I also have the new TMobile internet and due to the my upload speed being less than 2mbps (absolutely ridiculous) I am unable to my security system being that cameras required at least a 10 upload speed. I have spoke with CS for hours and got nowhere? I was told that it should be at least 15 but I have never seen it above 6 in my house. I'm so disappointed being that I had Cox Gigablast before switching and was told that it would match or exceed them...

Nothing yet. I have an extender coming from Amazon next week. It will be trial error I guess.

I've tested with success using my two Apple AirPort Extreme routers. First test was a short ethernet cable to the first AIrPort and wireless to the second AriPort. That worked fine. Then I set it up connecting one AirPort to the Gateway with a long Ethernet cable (in the walls in my house already). That works fine too. No noticeable signal loss. I don't see anyway to connect any router or extender to the Gateway without an ethernet cable.

I use a separate EAP1250 access point nowhere near the router and it works fine. I just hooked it up to an ethernet connection via a switch on the same LAN as the router. I configured it with a static IP address which works with the router's fixed subnet and basically ignore the Wifi that came with it. This seems to work well and has a much better signal in my home and garage (for the wifi enabled sprinkler control). It isn't mounted to the roof, just next to the switch.

EAP1250 - Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2 AC1300 Compact Indoor Wireless AP

I expect this will work with any standalone access point which doesn’t just retransmit another signal.