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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Is There a Difference Between a Wifi Router and a Netgear Repeater?

With wyfi, it is ultimately up to the client device to make a decision about which access point to connect to. If all the s s ideas are the same, then that decision is just made based on what it sees about these other devices. However, a mesh network can give hints to the device, suggesting that it chows one thing over another. And i'm wondering if having a repeater on the same s s idea that the mesh does not know about might be the source of confusion here. It's possible it's getting some hints that don't reconcile with this one, sort of rogue s s i d.

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