weird.....
havent got a big apartment but in some ways its like a big L shape with my router beside my computer in the lounge at the top point of the L, and then my bedroom is to the side, sorta the other tip of the L. in between is kitchen with fridge and microwave and stuff so the wifi connection wont pass through it. i get wifi at the entrance to the bedroom but not in the far corner which is where my tv is, and where iv plugged my old mac mini computer into the tv to stream movies to.
bought a D-LINK wifi extender. its at the corner of the L, so in sight of both the router and the tv. it worked for a week or so (dont use it much anyway but it worked on more than one occasion to watch tv through PLEX).
then it wouldnt work at all for a few weeks but didnt really have time to look at it.
so yesterday, reset everything, logged into the extender with my ipad, tied it to my router signal which was a strong signal.
my mac mini gets a full wifi signal, but says there is no internet connection. its not even that its too faint to work, clicking on the wifi menu and it says "no internet connected" but the signal bars are full.
so would seem like something is wrong, but standing right beside it my ipad gets the same full signal and internet works.
any ideas apart from throw the wifi extender in the bin and spend more money on powerline boxes (what i should have bought in the first place).
havent got a big apartment but in some ways its like a big L shape with my router beside my computer in the lounge at the top point of the L, and then my bedroom is to the side, sorta the other tip of the L. in between is kitchen with fridge and microwave and stuff so the wifi connection wont pass through it. i get wifi at the entrance to the bedroom but not in the far corner which is where my tv is, and where iv plugged my old mac mini computer into the tv to stream movies to.
bought a D-LINK wifi extender. its at the corner of the L, so in sight of both the router and the tv. it worked for a week or so (dont use it much anyway but it worked on more than one occasion to watch tv through PLEX).
then it wouldnt work at all for a few weeks but didnt really have time to look at it.
so yesterday, reset everything, logged into the extender with my ipad, tied it to my router signal which was a strong signal.
my mac mini gets a full wifi signal, but says there is no internet connection. its not even that its too faint to work, clicking on the wifi menu and it says "no internet connected" but the signal bars are full.
so would seem like something is wrong, but standing right beside it my ipad gets the same full signal and internet works.
any ideas apart from throw the wifi extender in the bin and spend more money on powerline boxes (what i should have bought in the first place).