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The ConnecT WiFi Extender is an interesting new product from Winegard: Winegard Connect - RV Internet WiFi Extender
WF-3000 (white) Winegard ConnecT WiFi Extender MSRP $549
WF-3035 (black) Winegard ConnecT WiFi Extender MSRP $549
You can get some additional tech data from the docs here: https://fccid.io/C3D
The indoor indoor unit (IDU) and outdoor unit (ODU) system design could make for a very good system.
At this point I'm assuming the ODU is a Wireless Bridge and the IDU is an Wireless Access Point that is connected to the Wireless Bridge by Ethernet cable.
If so, then it would be a much better setup than a simple repeater.
Coincidentally I had setup something like this yesterday to test at home. I used two devices, a router flashed with Tomato firmware functioning as a wireless bridge and an Asus router running in AP mode connected to the bridge by Ethernet cable. The AP allows for wireless devices to connect. It works better that using the Asus router in Repeater mode. Repeaters operate at the physical layer of the OSI layered networking reference model. MAC addresses are ignored at that layer I think. I'm likely not using the correct terms here. The bridge would operate at the data link layer. I was seeing MAC address related error messages in the log using a simple repeater and the using the bridge solved that.
I don't know if this is in fact what Winegard is doing but it might be similar. Their site says the new ConnecT WiFi Extender has a firewall as well.
This Winegard design would eliminate antenna cable losses by having the antennas attached to each unit (both the indoor and outdoor units). Omnidirectional antennas will make it easy to use.
WF-3000 (white) Winegard ConnecT WiFi Extender MSRP $549
WF-3035 (black) Winegard ConnecT WiFi Extender MSRP $549
You can get some additional tech data from the docs here: https://fccid.io/C3D
The indoor indoor unit (IDU) and outdoor unit (ODU) system design could make for a very good system.
At this point I'm assuming the ODU is a Wireless Bridge and the IDU is an Wireless Access Point that is connected to the Wireless Bridge by Ethernet cable.
If so, then it would be a much better setup than a simple repeater.
Coincidentally I had setup something like this yesterday to test at home. I used two devices, a router flashed with Tomato firmware functioning as a wireless bridge and an Asus router running in AP mode connected to the bridge by Ethernet cable. The AP allows for wireless devices to connect. It works better that using the Asus router in Repeater mode. Repeaters operate at the physical layer of the OSI layered networking reference model. MAC addresses are ignored at that layer I think. I'm likely not using the correct terms here. The bridge would operate at the data link layer. I was seeing MAC address related error messages in the log using a simple repeater and the using the bridge solved that.
I don't know if this is in fact what Winegard is doing but it might be similar. Their site says the new ConnecT WiFi Extender has a firewall as well.
This Winegard design would eliminate antenna cable losses by having the antennas attached to each unit (both the indoor and outdoor units). Omnidirectional antennas will make it easy to use.
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