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Do boosters connect to each other, or do they all directly to the Wifi Hub?
Hey all, I have a TELUS wifi hub that was just set up yesterday. It's in one corner of our basement. We also have a paired wireless booster connected across the basement from it. The basement booster...
I use the WPS button to chain boosters to each other instead of using the app? The app walks me through a process of connecting the booster to the hub via ethernet cable (presumably to download the network configuration details from the hub), then power it down, disconnect, then power it back up at my location of choice.
This is where I seem to be having problems with the second booster showing kind of a shoddy connection, even though it's directly upstairs from the first booster.
I strongly suspect it's only communicating directly to the hub, and not to the first booster at all.
In other news, I got 2 additional boosters from a friend who also had a starter pack. I keep trying to add a third booster using one from that set, but I get a red solid light when going through the pairing process. It doesn't work at all.
NFtoBC
Community Power User
Community Power UserThere should be nothing unique about the boosters you obtained from the friend preventing your use. Have you reset them to factory default?
The boosters should hop one to the other, but the speed halves with each hop.
Thanks NFtoBC ...Yeah - both were reset (at least I think so, I powered them on and clicked the factory reset button for 5-10 seconds, until the light on the front blinked).
After doing that, and after going through the connection wizard on the Telus app (connecting with ethernet to the hub, letting it initialize, disconnecting, moving to a new location, powering back up, waiting for it to connect), it results in a solid red light. This is happening with both the boosters I got from a friend of mine. The two boosters I have were connected using this very same process, and both are working fine*.
* = while they are working fine, the second booster only has "good" signal strength despite being directly upstairs from the first booster.
