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Ginestre
Mar 04, 2017Follower
Can I use an extender to extend an extender?
The router is on the ground floor, with the name ournetwork. On the first floor, I have a WN2500RP which has the name ournetwork1. It works OK, but not amazingly so. The signal from the router is 47%...
TheEther
Mar 05, 2017Guru
It's not recommended to wirelessly connect extenders to each other. Performance will be unsatisfactory because each extender imposes a 50% speed penalty.
You can wire the second floor extender to the first floor extender. Set up the second floor extender to operate as an Access Point. Make sure your extender supports Access Point mode. Not all do. You can also use a Wi-Fi router as an Access Point.