First you will be amazed at the size of this thing. (see
photo) Then you will be dismayed at how
cumbersome the installation was. It did
install and I have it working as a repeater.
Once it was configured it worked just fine. The instructions with the unit it were for
all intents useless. The mini-CD held
the manual. Here is where cumbersome begins. It teases you with an overview of all the
things it can do first. BTW when it says
quick installation guide, their definition of quick is way different than
mine.
Auto id did not work on a Vista
or an XP machine. I do not experiment
with new products on my Win7 machine.
After being bounced hither and thither throughout the manual I was
eventually able to manually configure the unit to be a repeater. In all fairness, once you got to the right
place and were able to see the &%$^#^ thing it was pretty straight
forward.
I plugged it in at a far point from my wireless router
and saw double the signal strength. I
have a meter ap on my phone and before plugging in the Nano and after plugging
it in was dramatic. In fact the signal
strength was now the same in the far corner of the house as it is in the same
room with the wireless router. Pretty
impressive considering how inexpensive this is. ($24 on Amazon)
Budget 2 hours for installation and you will be
fine. It will speed you up if you have
the mac address, SSID, the type of security you are using and the pass code
before you start. This way there will be
no spelunking under your desk to look at the router when you can find the paper
you recorded said info on when you installed it.
Also you will have less difficulty if you don’t have the
level of crap on your network that I have so bear that in mind when you install
this in 15 minutes. I’m not stupid but
at times I make my own life complicated.
This is a pretty cool piece of tech and so far my only
complaint is truly abysmal documentation.
If reviewing a product, it may have been received free of charge. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.
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