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Another WiFi repeater
🕑 Added 2025-02-10 15:41:12 +0000 UTCThis one has no RAM chip or LAN port. Just a dedicated router chip and a flash memory chip. It has a very similar setup page to the previous one, but with less options.
It's quite neat to see how mass production can streamline a design. And this one is definitely in the category of a travel router or one that can be hidden somewhere for sneaky Internet access.
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Lorcán Adrain
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Big Clive
The speed these units operate at isn't as high as a main router.
Hub Rijcks
Some questions Clive about my measurements with two of these (came in yesterday). Situation of measurement: room of 8x3 meters. In the left corner a cable modem from Ziggo, in the richt an accesspoint (old guy) from EnGenius. The PC in the middle. Meassured wiresless cablemodem-PC: 532 Mbps; from EnGenius 164 Mbps. Tested both units from Ali and they measured 43 Mbps and 42 Mbps. The EnGenius is wired via usb cat5 from cable modem to accesspoint. I'm confused, please enlighten me. Wat's going on here? Are the sending signals to strong?
Simon Paul
Rooter means something different in Australia
Big Clive
Ah, that makes sense.
Mark Gray
According to the datasheet, MT7628KN has 64 megabits onboard RAM (4x the flash size), so no need for a discrete chip. I see someone on YT spotted the same. It also has USB 2.0 support, for whatever reason. Plenty fast enough for a rubber ducky anyway.
Seán Byrne
They are regularly confiscated in transit into the country here in Ireland, particularly if "repeater" or "booster" is mentioned in the declared contents. This is mainly due to the crack down on non-compliant mobile signal repeater imports, so packets containing Wi-Fi repeaters end up being inspected.
NN Thomas
Some wifi extenders are illegal in Australia. The alternative is to daisy-chain the cheapest router you can find. (Some (immature) Aussies will be sniggering when you pronounce it rooter).
Willem Hengeveld
it is different for a camera or printer where your content is likely to be send directly to the company you 'bought' it from.
Willem Hengeveld
Of course, it is not impossible to be hacked. but i'd think you would need to be specifically targeted. Both American and Israeli companies have been known to backdoor certain equipment on a massive scale. it is quite possible that the Chinese would do something similar.
Willem Hengeveld
Nowadays it is very rare for connections to not use SSL or SSH. Also, your browser often does not use your local DNS, and instead uses some https protocol to resolve names. So together with certificate pinning. that makes it very hard for a MiTM to do anything useful.
Mark Trombley
Since it has two antennas wouldn't it be a tooter?
