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Can I extend wifi mesh by conneting a wifi mesh to another one?
I currently have a AC1900 WiFi Mesh Extender Essentials Edition Model EX6400v3 that is extending my wifi to my basement. The home router is on the top floor, the mesh extender is on the main level, can I add another one to the basement so I can hard wire something to the mesh extender in the basement?
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You'd be better to put the router in the middle and an extender up and down. Otherwise the extender in the basement will have much much slower speeds.
Reason why is that single/dual band extenders drop throughput by 50% minimum. This happens because the extender has to use the same chip to go router---extender and then extender---devices. And it can't do both at once.
So it takes that 50% speed hit plus whatever its taking from distance/obstructions/interference.
Add a 2nd one at the end and the speed will halve (plus more) again. Plus latency increases.
So if you're going that router, put the router on the middle floor. Or switch from using extenders to a full mesh system that is triband. Tribands have a dedicated backhaul just to prevent that droup.
I know I would be better to have the router centrally located. I'm asking if it will work. It's for my parents and they live out of state so I can't just easily do the work and test things. I need to to know if I can just order them another one and have them set it up with no issues.
If you have to use extenders, pick up a triband extender to put in the middle.
so you'd go router---->triband extender----->extender.
the triband extenders don't take the same throughput loss but you will see an increase in latency on the 2nd extender
bekinde2all wrote:
.... can I add another one to the basement so I can hard wire something to the mesh extender in the basement?
Do you really need a mesh extender to get something hard wired on to the network?
As plemans points out the speed won't be great thanks to the wifi connection.
If it only a wired connection that you need, you could consider Powerline Ethernet.
to use the mains circuit to connect the wired device to the router.
