If you have an old Android phone gathering dust in a drawer somewhere, you may already have everything you need to fix the dead zones in your home Wi-Fi network. Instead of buying new hardware, be it ...

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Before you throw away (or recycle) that old Android phone, you may be able to make use of it as a Wi-Fi extender for your home network. Android phones can connect to your home Wi-Fi network and then ...

But there’s another option if you’re like me and have an old Android phone lying around. You can turn it into a Wi-Fi extender, and it works well enough to deliver a usable connection in problem areas ...