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 To tell you the truth, each extender node isn't really just an antenna: They each have their own computers and wifi radios so they can talk on different wifi channels at the same time as your home node without causing interference.
-The extender nodes that we currently support are:
+The extender nodes we explicitly support will extend [[#Wifi_Signals.2FSSIDs|all three of the wifi networks]] emitted by the home node (actually we're still working on the ability to extend the private network but it should be there soon). These extender nodes need to be flashed with our extender node firmware and automatically configure themselves correctly when plugged into a home node.
+The extender nodes that we explicitly support (referred to as smart extender nodes) are:
 * [https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/nanostationm5 Ubiquiti Nanostation M5]
 * [https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/nanostationm2 Ubiquiti Nanostation M2]
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 * [https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/picostationm2 Ubiquiti Picostation M2]
 * [https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/bullet Ubiquiti Bullet M2 and M5]
+In addition we are working to add support for using any normal wifi router as an extender node without reflashing but using this method you will only be able to extend a single one of the wifi networks per extender node and the extender node will have to be manually configured. We refer to these as dumb extenders. This is useful if you want to use unsupported hardware such as the Ubiquiti Nanobeam.