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EAX80 wired access point slow speeds (to RAX120)
I bought the EAX80 put in a corner of the house with poor signal. While this sounds like a horrible place to put an extender, it then gives me full coverage outside on our patio and in our garage. ...
It is hard wired into a cat5e ethernet port running in access point mode. I did not expect to see such a hit in bandwidth (about 25% of total speed from the router) using a wired backend. You are correct that the patio/garage does not need that much but it is also serving a shadowed portion of the main house.
I need as much bandwidth as I can get given that I live in a house of 6 all streaming video and gaming at the same time. Yes, we are bandwidth hogs. Because of the cabling I can't swap the position of the extender and the router or that would be my solution.
In addition, I am not liking the "stickiness" of the access point. I can be next to the router and it hangs on to the access point even though it has a clearly poorer signal (less than -70 db). I think I might be forced to run this thing in extender mode and see how it works out. It will be interesting to see how bad of a speed hit I would take.
Hardwired it shouldn't take that much of a hit.
A couple things to test.
1. hook directly up to the ethernet running to the EAX80 and speed test it.
2. then directly hardwire into the eax80 and speedtest it.
3. Try different testing sites. Many struggle with saturating gigabit. Even speedtest.com can sometimes pick a slow server.
4. Also, if you haven't, try a factory reset. its a new device and firmware changes can sometimes be helped with a factory reset afterwards.
In terms of the stickiness, its only a mesh extender when running in extender mode. In access point mode, it doesn't act as mesh.
1. hook directly up to the ethernet running to the EAX80 and speed test it. results 950 down, 40 up
2. then directly hardwire into the eax80 and speedtest it. results 350 down, 40 up
3. Try different testing sites. Many struggle with saturating gigabit. Even speedtest.com can sometimes pick a slow server. all 350 down, 40 up
4. Also, if you haven't, try a factory reset. its a new device and firmware changes can sometimes be helped with a factory reset afterwards. Good advice, I am going to try this and report back.
Also, I will try wiring back to the router a bit differently. Second, I will try the device in extender mode (in a decent signal area) and see what I get from that.
OK. I figured this out. I moved the cable from my SX10 switch to to a port directly on the RAX120 router and I am now achieving 750-900 mbps. I guess the question now is, why was the SX10 throttling this and not giving it everything it is asking for? Maybe it has something to do with the priority settings?
the SX10 has its own qos/prioritization settings that users can modify