Wifi Extender for Optimum Wifi?

[4yourinfo]

He might be able to change  his band settings on his laptop in the wifi advanced settings tab you should see 5.8ghz option if it's supported.... unfortunately mine isn't

[yelped]

He might be able to change  his band settings on his laptop in the wifi advanced settings tab you should see 5.8ghz option if it's supported.... unfortunately mine isn't

5ghz doesn't propagate as far as the lower frequencies, so even if it supports it, it may not reach him now.

[Eliyohu]

Anyone else notice optimum hotspots in residential areas in nj seem to have changed bands from 2.4g to 5.8 my house which always had a hot spot disappeared and I heard from others saw online the same... My Nexus phone seems to pick it up I guess it's 5.8 compatible...buying a dual adapter for my computer hope that works...

Tysm! I couldn't for the life of me figure this out, why I suddenly lost the 2.4.. and my phone doesn't connect to the 5g. Besides for the fact that being as much weaker signal my extender can barely pick it up.
Why did they do this?

[yitzf]

Same here, used to have pretty good reception, and for the last 2 weeks it's been either bad or non existent.

The 2.4 GHz band is a pretty crowded place, because it’s used by more than just Wi-Fi. Old cordless phones, garage door openers, baby monitors, and other devices tend to use the 2.4 GHz band. The longer waves used by the 2.4 GHz band are better suited to longer ranges and transmission through walls and solid objects.

The 5 GHz band is much less congested, which means you will likely get more stable connections. You’ll also see higher speeds. On the other hand, the shorter waves used by the 5 GHz band makes it less able to penetrate walls and solid objects. It’s also got a shorter effective range than the 2.4 GHz band.

[cozmohoot]

Would that affect a galaxy s8 that has the 5 band? Besides the range issues..

[4yourinfo]

5ghz doesn't propagate as far as the lower frequencies, so even if it supports it, it may not reach him now.

I was afraid of that but my Nexus was picking up a beautiful signal and it was pretty quick I'm wondering if maybe it had to do with the less congested 5ghz band.. I'm hoping that a dual adapter (dongle)that comes with an antenna may actually be better then the internal wifi adapter in the laptop and maybe now I'll actually have better wifi than before!

[4yourinfo]

Tysm! I couldn't for the life of me figure this out, why I suddenly lost the 2.4.. and my phone doesn't connect to the 5g. Besides for the fact that being as much weaker signal my extender can barely pick it up.
Why did they do this?

Maybe your extender only picks up 2.4 and there's a closer 5.8....

[Eliyohu]

Maybe your extender only picks up 2.4 and there's a closer 5.8....

It picks up both...
However i just played around with it a bit and I moved it to a spot in my house that previously didn't have any signal which now does...

[joe1234]

He might be able to change  his band settings on his laptop in the wifi advanced settings tab you should see 5.8ghz option if it's supported.... unfortunately mine isn't

Where do I find wifi setting on my laptop?

[joe1234]

I purchased this netgear extender I know this tp link will work as well. The one issue which I'm having with the netgear is sometimes when trying to connect to it I'll get a failed to obtain ip adress which the tp link reportedly doesn't have an issue with. I'd assume that other models should work as well being I'd assume the firmware etc are similar however I tried a cheaper tp link that didn't work
I added it's mac adress to optimum although I'm pretty sure it's not necessary.
I set up the extender to connect to the strongest optimum network.
I connected my devices to the extender and the optimum sign in page came up in my browser.
Important note for some reason the mac adress of your device is recognized differently then when connecting this way vs straight to the optimum network. If you do auto sign in you'll need to do it twice and will be reconized as different devices.

How do I set up the extender to connect to optimum?

[Eliyohu]

How do I set up the extender to connect to optimum?

Same way that you'd set it up to extend any other network...

[joe1234]

I tried setting it up and after setup it said "limited", basically meaning it didn't really connect to optimum. Does it matter that my laptop runs on 2.4 and optimum now on 5.8?

[Eliyohu]

I tried setting it up and after setup it said "limited", basically meaning it didn't really connect to optimum. Does it matter that my laptop runs on 2.4 and optimum now on 5.8?

I don't know the answer to the second question. As far as the first means that you need to login to Optimum.. you can try opening your browser to a new webpage and see if it'll come up. It should open by itself.. what extender are you using?

[real-brisker]

Anyone else notice optimum hotspots in residential areas in nj seem to have changed bands from 2.4g to 5.8 my house which always had a hot spot disappeared and I heard from others saw online the same... My Nexus phone seems to pick it up I guess it's 5.8 compatible...buying a dual adapter for my computer hope that works...

oh!!! That's what it is. I have been using a usb long range wifi, and suddenly I lost all optimum wifis... Couldn't figure out what happened.

[Z56]

How can Make my optimum wifi (unsecured network) to a  secure network ?
Having problems connecting my google Home with optimum wifi

[4yourinfo]

How can Make my optimum wifi (unsecured network) to a  secure network ?
Having problems connecting my google Home with optimum wifi

Make your computer a hotspot and run it off that..

[4yourinfo]

I tried setting it up and after setup it said "limited", basically meaning it didn't really connect to optimum. Does it matter that my laptop runs on 2.4 and optimum now on 5.8?

Can't imagine that's the problem you can create a 2.4 hotspot out of a 5.8... which your extender seems to be doing

[Z56]

Make your computer a hotspot and run it off that..

how do I do that ?

[joe1234]

Can't imagine that's the problem you can create a 2.4 hotspot out of a 5.8... which your extender seems to be doing

Yeh I think the problem is just that the optimum wifi is too far away because of this new 5.8... is there any way to bring it closer?

[4yourinfo]

Yeh I think the problem is just that the optimum wifi is too far away because of this new 5.8... is there any way to bring it closer?

Antenna?