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ronnymac32
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May 24, 2018

Disable Beamforming on Nighthawk X4S Extender (EX-7500)

Hey everyone, I did some tooling around on the Google box and found a lot of advice for adjusting settings on the Netgear Routers. Unfortunately, it seems more limited in the extender realm. Is the...
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DarrenM
Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
May 30, 2018

Beamforming should be a setting in the router the ex7500 does not have this option.

 

DarrenM

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ronnymac32
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May 30, 2018
Thanks Darren. Do you happen to know if I disable beamforming on the router if the extender will follow suit? Or am I stuck with beamforming on the extender?
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    DarrenM
    Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
    May 31, 2018

    yes that should be the case

     

    DarrenM