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AX1800 (EAX20) 5Ghz slow DL speed
I have a Tri-Band extender, shown in the picture, that extends my Nighthawk AX12 (RAX120) Wifi 6 router. This extender generally gives 600Mbps & higher when standing in the same room. I just purchas...
The EX8000 (what you have) is a triband AC extender. It has a dedicated chip for communication between the router and the extender and can link at 1733mbps for the backhaul (link speed, not throughput).
A dual band/single band device has to use the same chip to communicate between the router----extender and then extender---device. And it can't do both at once. So it takes a 50% speed hit because of this.
So for the
EAX20--its 5ghz has a 1200mbps link but then 50% speed hit. Plus that 1200mbps is under optimal conditions and close to router.
EAX80 -4800mbps link and then the speed hit. But they rarely link at the 4800mbps because it drops of quickly with distance. Which is the whole point of an extender.
The tribands don't take that hit because of the dedicated chip.
There currently isn't a a triband extender that I know of (so far).
The EX8000 is pretty much a top of the line extender and quite capable. I'm not surprised that you're getting faster speeds than the dual band AX devices. Now when they come out with triband AX, then we'll see.