I’ve recently suggested a wifi extended/repeater to a friend of mine as his wifi signals stuggles to reach his room. I’ve read about wifi repeaters and suggested one to my Friend. He bought one hearing my suggestion and fu*ked up.
The repeater caused huge jitter and latency and made the internet unusable. Luckily he doesn’t remember who suggested it🤷♂️
Repeaters can add fuel to the fire if there’s already a lot of access points around. Especially on 2.4ghz which has limited number of channels. It can be helped by reducing the transmitting power on all devices.
Id rather recommend the wall plugs (they connect to wall power socket and transmit Internet over power wires via RF), if you can’t run Ethernet.
Note, this only works if both ends of the plug are on the same breaker circuit
In my experience it works across circuits, but speeds aren’t that great. Just connect them to the same outlet first for pairing. I’ve heard about this method working between apartments too.