With the kids and my wife at home, they have all been doing multiple Zoom meetings throughout the day. The family has really put the fixed wireless internet to good use during the pandemic. Nice! We now have a stronger signal throughout the house and our devices connect to whichever has the best signal without any intervention on our part. No passwords needed to be typed in or web addresses to log in to. Connecting it was as simple as pressing the WPS button on the main box and extender. I installed it on the opposite side of the house from the main box. I’d always been intrigued with mesh wi-fi and while reading about those I discovered that AT&T offers a Smart Wi-Fi Extender for $40 that works with their fixed wireless box like other mesh systems. The only drawback that occurred was finding out that the range of the wi-fi of the AT&T box was smaller and could not reach every corner of the house as it did before. The AirPort Extreme had been working with it from the first day we installed the fixed wireless. At this point, I’m not sure if the AirPort Extreme was failing or if there was a firmware update on one of the two boxes that caused the problem. I removed the AirPort and connected everything to the AT&T box’s wi-if and the problem cleared up completely. We had used an AirPort Extreme Wireless router connected to the AT&T box to serve up wi-if to all of our devices. This time around the AT&T box had all green lights and logging into the main page showed I had a good connection. In March, around the time the pandemic arrived, we began having more random internet outages. That fixed that problem, although it did take around one month to accomplish. I spent time on the phone with tech support and after the third visit, my tech guy agreed to change out the router box to see if that would fix the problem. Sometimes I could unplug the router and antennae and it would fix and other times it would not. Around last October we began having intermittent internet outages. I’ll start with the bad and get it out of the way. My two-month review has been one of my most popular posts so I thought it might be of use to give another update now that a longer time period has passed.

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