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Tp50
Tuning in
12 months ago
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How to connect device to WiFi pods

I have a WiFi pod and can stand next to it and it won’t connect? Can you force it to pick up device. WiFi drops out on device intermittently in this area because it’s still looking for hub
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    Tudor
    12 months ago

    You cannot force a pod to pickup a device. You should have the pod equal distance from the hub and the device. There is nothing magic about a pod, it just picks up a WiFi signal and retransmits it. So if you are next to the pod, your device will receive exactly the same strength signal from the hub as the pod. Contrary to what VM say there is no such thing as a WiFi ‘booster’, pods just extend the range of the WiFi signal, they cannot increase its strength. 

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Tudor
Very Insightful Person
12 months ago

You cannot force a pod to pickup a device. You should have the pod equal distance from the hub and the device. There is nothing magic about a pod, it just picks up a WiFi signal and retransmits it. So if you are next to the pod, your device will receive exactly the same strength signal from the hub as the pod. Contrary to what VM say there is no such thing as a WiFi ‘booster’, pods just extend the range of the WiFi signal, they cannot increase its strength.