Telenet extender

8 comments

1. Following, I need to do the same 😉

2. My two cents, invest in some decent wireless access points. You buy them once, and get to enjoy them for a long long time.

   I bought Unifi AC Pro’s almost 5 years ago, a set of 3.

   I’ve got one per floor, and one to the back of the house that transmits into the garden.

3. A lot of people don’t realise this, but the networking equipment in your house doesn’t HAVE to be from Telenet themselves. Everything that happens in your own home network is 100% controlled by you.

   Instead of renting from Telenet, I’d recommend getting either 1 or 2 Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite Wifi Access points and putting them in a wifi mesh.

   I’ve also heard very good things about the TP-Link DECO X50.

   They are slighty harder to set up, but if you’re at least a little handy with computers, the manual and maybe a some Youtube tutorials can get you through the process.

4. People ITT are unironically recommending Ubiquiti to someone who makes claims like this:

   > I want to get another extender, but if I want a third one, I have to rent these from Telenet, which would be more expensive in the long run if I’d just buy one.

   what.

   Literally any old access point will do, doesn’t need to be anything fancy that requires a bunch of configuration.

5. Can’t agree more with the comments below.

   Basically, Internet is like water or gas connections to your home, once you’re past the counter (or the modem in this case) whatever happens is on you (just like with the pipes, faucets and others for gas and water)

   Your provider may propose solutions, but keep in mind they’ll always be “one fits all” type of solutions, and always on the cheap side.

   If you want to keep going with your current setup, I recommend looking on the sticker on the back of the extender you already posses, find the maker and the model reference and after a little google-fu session you should be able to see who make it (often devolo) and what compatible model you can buy privately to pair with it.

   But as I said, I agree with the other comments, those aren’t necessarily the best options, such machines will mostly depend on the electrical network quality of your house/apartment and anything wrong with it (think issues between the phases, no phase couplers, a bad ground in the plugs, a ground shared with the other apartments of the building, wago couplers in the cabling,…) will reflect in the extenders performances.

   I personally use the Netgear Orbi system, and am really happy with it, to the point my provider’s own WiFi is turned off since now 6 years.

   Additional stations can be bought and added to the initial pair, it provides both 2.4 and 5.0 WiFi networks around each station, can work in semi-mesh or daisy chained with a Lan cable, each station also provides me at least 3 cable outputs, and the speed tests are always at least 80% of my line speed on any connected device

6. If I were you I would buy a powerline. It connects to your WiFi router trough your electric cables. We recently bought Devolo magic 2 and it works really well.

7. I personally have a Google Nest Wifi system and I like it so far. Fixed my connection problems, very easy to install for someone who knows very little about these things, and I like that you can very easily do some ‘advanced’ stuff (e.g. giving a specific phone/laptop ‘priority’ so it gets the best connection possible). Not the cheapest option though, I paid €199 for a modem + 1 mesh point

8. We had the same problem, the walls are reinforced concrete so the connection in my home office was not ideal to put it mildly. Also with Telenet.

   The Mr has recently ordered a TP Link RE200 and I am sad to say I’ve run out of excuses to drop out of meetings because the wifi connection is really great now. It’s not quite the advertised 150mbps we’re paying for, but it’s fairly close.

   ETA: you can order this magical technological tool (don’t ask me how it works) on bol for 26 eur.