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AttorneyBJ
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Jan 27, 2025
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EAX17 Extender

Can you use multiple EAX17 wifi extenders with the same SSID in one network?

  • Can you? Yes. 

    Should you? No. When you're needing more than 1 extender, its recommended to move to an actual mesh system like Orbi or MK nighthawk. Reason why is then something is controlling the satellites and keeping the system stable. Without that, satellites can end up connecting to each other. this can cause issues if they connect to each other and not the router. So there isn't any service. Or if you're daisy chaining (router--->extender----->extender), it drops throughput bit time. Reason why is these dual band extenders have to transmit router----extender and then extender----devices and they can't do both at once. So their throughput is 50% of what they receive. Which is already lower than the router because of distance/obstruction/interference. And that's for a single extender. Add another extender and its 50% drop is what it receives from the other extender. So it'll have significantly slowed speeds and higher latency because its running through a different extender. 

    So again, can you do it? Yes. Should you do it? not at all. If you need more than 1, start looking at mesh systems. 

    Even an older AC triband mesh system (with the dedicated backhaul) will outperform a daisy chain AX extender setup. 

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    plemans
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    Can you? Yes. 

    Should you? No. When you're needing more than 1 extender, its recommended to move to an actual mesh system like Orbi or MK nighthawk. Reason why is then something is controlling the satellites and keeping the system stable. Without that, satellites can end up connecting to each other. this can cause issues if they connect to each other and not the router. So there isn't any service. Or if you're daisy chaining (router--->extender----->extender), it drops throughput bit time. Reason why is these dual band extenders have to transmit router----extender and then extender----devices and they can't do both at once. So their throughput is 50% of what they receive. Which is already lower than the router because of distance/obstruction/interference. And that's for a single extender. Add another extender and its 50% drop is what it receives from the other extender. So it'll have significantly slowed speeds and higher latency because its running through a different extender. 

    So again, can you do it? Yes. Should you do it? not at all. If you need more than 1, start looking at mesh systems. 

    Even an older AC triband mesh system (with the dedicated backhaul) will outperform a daisy chain AX extender setup.