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2 x EX7000 with BT Infinity Hub
I have just had BT fibre Infinity put into old stone house with 10 bedrooms used as a guest house. In order to ensure good wifi coverage I purchased 2 x EX 7000 to spread wifi to as many spots as possible. It seemed to be OK at beginning (10 days ago) but each day the internet cut out until today it just would not work. I reset BT hub to factory setting and switched off 2 EX 7000's and it works OK. How come adding extenders (£125 ea) does not work with BT Infinity? Have I just wasted all my cash on white elephants?
Any advice most welcome!
John
Most likely due the fact that it's an older home with lath and plaster constructed walls (not conducive to wifi), and maybe some stone walls in the house also? Irregardless, the best way to extend wifi is configuring the EX7000's as Access Points, using Ethernet cable to connect back to the BT router, allowing the BT router to provide DHCP to your network. Otherwise you will be struggling to keep the EX7000's connected to yout BT router.
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Most likely due the fact that it's an older home with lath and plaster constructed walls (not conducive to wifi), and maybe some stone walls in the house also? Irregardless, the best way to extend wifi is configuring the EX7000's as Access Points, using Ethernet cable to connect back to the BT router, allowing the BT router to provide DHCP to your network. Otherwise you will be struggling to keep the EX7000's connected to yout BT router.
HI
Thanks for that really helpful ... so I run an ethernet from both each of EX 7000's back to hub and that's all I need do or is there additional setting up?
It is an old stone house (1670) and so always a nightmare.
Thanks
John
Setting the EX7000's as Access Point is what you want to do. You should be good to go, from there.. Set your EX7000's with different 2.4ghz and 5ghz channels. Also, I woudn't expect any roaming, so you may want to entertain creating different SSID's, so you know which one you are connected to. You will probably have to force connect to the different SSID's, depending on where you are, in your home.