beginners advice - how to check if extender has copied router's SSID and password?
I recently bought a tp link powerline adapter (TL-WPA4220KIT) because I was getting slow wifi internet speeds in some parts of my house.
I have set it up following the instructions, so that the extender adopts the SSID and password of my ISP router and as far as I can tell it is working ok.
I seem to be getting ok speeds in the rooms in question but I can't tell if my laptop is connecting to the extender - and thereby benefiting from better speeds - or whether it is just connecting to my router in the normal way (and my normal wifi is just performing ok). Sometimes the speeds seem to drop to a very low and unusable speed, but usually if I re-boot or even simply wait it seems to pick up again - but I can't tell if this is an issue with the extender or my router.
I notice that in the list of wifi networks available I am now seeing a network called 'tplink'. Does that mean that I have failed to get the extender to adopt the SSID and password of my router? If I had successfully done so should it not share the wifi network identity of my router (in my case a Vodafone router)? Or should I be connecting to that 'tplink' wifi network in order to benefit from the boosted wifi signal? So far I have just been automatically connecting with my laptop to my normal wifi; is that the right thing to do or does that mean I am just using my router and not the extender at all? How can I check that I have successfully got the extender to adopt the router's SSID and passowrd?
Thanks for any help or advice you can give.