This extender unit was having drop out issues and not very reliable and I stopped using it and it sat around for a couple years not being used
Then I had to replace my router because of a lot of dropouts and becoming anointing my wife has to work from home because of the Coronavirus and she had just about enough of this
So we got another router but the range of this router is not quite as good my door bell camera would not work correctly anymore so I found the extender again and replaced two 1000uf@16 volt capacitors ( ESR values of 02 and 04 ) with a very low profile so I had to use one 2200uf@16 volt capacitor and lay it on it side it also has one ( 10uf@50 volt capacitor that had a ESR —> 1.5 ohm resistance value new one has a value of 0.39 ohms )
One note the outside case gets a little warm to the touch so I guess that why the capacitors gets slowly cooked to death
This unit has two boards one is basically the switching power supply board
The other board is WiFi board and has a connector between the two boards so there is not much space between the two boards
Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of this repair because I did not think that this repair would really work
( my wife has bought a new extender and said that if I could not get the one that I have now to work correctly to return the one we just bought but this might be a “?” able idea with Coronavirus issues )
Because I have tried to repair routers before and my success rate is about 50% so I am sorry about this
NETGEAR routers use too be easy to setup but I do not understand why they thought the setup has to be so difficult to do
Netgear routers were easy to link extender together but not anymore
I had to reset both units to factory settings at least 6 to 8 times before it would correctly work together
Now my door bell camera work great again
In fact I am using the extender right now writing this post
Then I had to replace my router because of a lot of dropouts and becoming anointing my wife has to work from home because of the Coronavirus and she had just about enough of this
So we got another router but the range of this router is not quite as good my door bell camera would not work correctly anymore so I found the extender again and replaced two 1000uf@16 volt capacitors ( ESR values of 02 and 04 ) with a very low profile so I had to use one 2200uf@16 volt capacitor and lay it on it side it also has one ( 10uf@50 volt capacitor that had a ESR —> 1.5 ohm resistance value new one has a value of 0.39 ohms )
One note the outside case gets a little warm to the touch so I guess that why the capacitors gets slowly cooked to death
This unit has two boards one is basically the switching power supply board
The other board is WiFi board and has a connector between the two boards so there is not much space between the two boards
Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of this repair because I did not think that this repair would really work
( my wife has bought a new extender and said that if I could not get the one that I have now to work correctly to return the one we just bought but this might be a “?” able idea with Coronavirus issues )
Because I have tried to repair routers before and my success rate is about 50% so I am sorry about this
NETGEAR routers use too be easy to setup but I do not understand why they thought the setup has to be so difficult to do
Netgear routers were easy to link extender together but not anymore
I had to reset both units to factory settings at least 6 to 8 times before it would correctly work together
Now my door bell camera work great again
In fact I am using the extender right now writing this post
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