Can I use two Nighthawk X4 WiFi Mesh extenders?

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Coaleyed wrote:

There are no issues running multiple extenders.  

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Beg to differ. I've personally had issues and seen multiple on the forums. 

with the mesh extenders, there isn't a controller like the full mesh system like orbi. On occasion, they can end up connecting to each other and create a loop and not work properly. This doesn't happen to everyone and a lot depends on how close to each other they are. but if there are issues, you simply put one of them with its own unique ssid and this fixes the issue. but again, not all have this issue. 

Other thing to keep in mind is the standard dual band extenders will cause a loss of throughput. Because they have to transmit and recieve using the same chip and can't do both at once. So they take a 50% throughput hit right off the bat. If you're running them in daisy chain mode its even worse as the end extender has less than 25% of the speed. 

This is why I usually recommend people move to an actual mesh system like orbi if they're needing multiple extenders. Especially if they plan on daisy chaining.

Daisy chain: router----->extender------>extender

Star config:  Extender<----------router-------->extender