WiFi Booster an £8 WiFi Repeater for £50

[dexters_lab]

Dropped in my face with a croc of shit youtube advert... saying this is by two former ISP employees who knew a secret and made this device that can bypass your ISPs bandwidth throttling

https://www.wifiboost.tech/checkout

but it looks like a cheap wifi repeater you can buy on ebay for £8

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300Mbps-Repeater-Wifi-Wireless-UK-Plug-Blast-Range-Extender-Signal-Booster-White/283563541837?hash=item4205b4454d:g:CekAAOSwPdddOSdX

[PlainName]

Just looking like (or even being actually the same) as some other product doesn't mean it's a fake. Quick way to market is to take something already existing and reprogram it - that's what the embedded PC market (not to mention  RPi, Arduino, etc) does after all.

I agree 100% that it is fake - to get around any ISP thing it would surely need to be a router rather than WiFi repeater. That, IMV, is a better reason to slag it than because they took a cheap route to market.

[stevelup]

Excellent incentive to buy more than one as well.

1 @ £49.99
2 @ £99.99 (pay an extra 1p)
3 @ £149.99 (pay an extra 2p)

 

[MrMobodies]

It looks like the company behind it MDE Commerce Ltd have also been mis-selling vacuum robot cleaners showing a rechargeable base but sent out something different.


https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-Limitations/Robot-vacum-scam/td-p/1833354

RobElsey  New Community Member
‎Jun-13-2019 03:06 AM

Robot vacum scam 
Hi,

The link here is what i have fallen for too - https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-Limitations/Robot-Vacuum-Scam/m-p/1805037#M56951

The company called  MDE Commerce Ltd. and the return address is actually a post office. This has not been delivered back yet.

The address they gave are this -

Pallasti 28 PO BOX Tallinn 10001 – ESTONIA, EST 0000 MT
 
Now these are a scam company and if you look at the link here you can see that they pull the same trick , they have now set up a new company name too and will pull this again. i'm sure i'm not the only one who has fallen for this.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-Limitations/Robot-Vacuum-Scam/m-p/1805037#M56951

lifezgood168  Contributor  Contributor
‎May-07-2019 05:00 AM

Robot Vacuum Scam

I purchased a Robot Vacuum after watching a video about the vacuum on Facebook.  The video showed that the vacuum had a docking station and was able to detect obstacles and stairs with sensors as well as navigating through out the house on a grid like pattern. The product I received was 1.2 pounds, did not have a docking station, only had a usb cord and could be battery operated. I have disputed this item because the seller (MEGADEALS, LTD.) will not refund my money.  I have not used the product at all.  PayPal has denied my claim stating that there is no "SIGNIFICANT" difference.  The robot vacuum shown in the video that then linked you to Megadeals, Ltd... showed a vacuum that was 14.37 pounds.  There is a SIGNIFICANT difference in what was shown in the video compared to what I received.  Now MEGADEALS has removed all of their content adds from Facebook as well as the video of the "false" vacuum they were "pretending to sale".  I do not agree with PayPal's decision.  I have came across many other people who have purchased this same item and used PayPal and they have been refunded.  What do I need to do to get my money back.

I'd never trust adverts out of nowhere.

[Ysjoelfir]

I'd never trust adverts out of nowhere.

I'd (and never do actually) trust adverts at all. I allow myself to claim that I am mostly immune to adverts since I always assume that everyone advertising anything just wants to scam me. this leads to (sometimes excessive) amounts of research before deciding which product suits my needs, but on the other side, I haven't received a bad item for a very long time - well, except from that stick welder, which was not to bad for the price I spent, but died at the second use.

this is by two former ISP employees who knew a secret and made this device that can bypass your ISPs bandwidth throttling

That claim alone screams bullshit to me. If it would even be possible to bypass bandwidth throttling from a remote point without changing your plan at all there would be tons of people out there doing so. Heck, I would combine 20 of those devices! My ISP says I can only get 100MBits download/40MBits upload but they sell a way more expensive plan to double up to 200MBits/40MBits.
I should try to buy 10 of those for the beginning, than I can get 1GBits download and 400MBits upload! I actually don't know what I should use that for, nor which Server could provide such speed at all (many aren't even able to give the full 100MBits...), but hey, why wouldn't I if I could?
On the other hand, that would be the rates for parallelling those things. If I could somehow connect them in series.... how does 10.24 TBits sound?