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EX3110 Slow Speed
I am getting slow wifi speeds whe using the EX3110 extender. Speedtest.net is showing like 0.5Mbps download. Yet the config screen shows 3 bars signal strength, and 39Mbps capability (See file att...
Plemans, your assumptions are correct! The extender is in a separate building from the router, so the signal goes a couple hundred feet, and there are some trees too. I can't really move it closer, and since it plugs into a wall outlet (no power cord), I can't move it to the top of the building either. I haven't tried other channels, but since there are no other wifi signals around, I don't expect that to help either. The router is Linksys, does this matter?
I expect that the extender will slow the speed some, and 50% of link speed would be great--I'd be happy with 10%. A couple of questions:
1. Would a newer model work better? This one is probably 5yrs old.
2. Would a firmware update help? Again it has never been updated.
3. Would an extender with external antennas work better? I could wire an additional outdoor antenna to this. Any experience with these?
If you or anyone else would comment further, I'd be most grateful.
A couple hundred feet with obstructions. I'm simply impressed that you're even getting a signal.
You might see a little improvement with using an extender with a larger antenna but its not going to be much.
best bets?
1. buy and underground cable and bury it. Then attach an access point at the seperate building.
2. use a point to point system. They can reach much futher distances. Netgear has airbridge but there are cheaper options.
Thanks for your reply, and advice. I'm not ready to go with either of those solutions yet, I'd like to try to eek out a few more mbps with an extender. Right now I'n getting only 1% of link speed, if I could get another 1% that would double my speed. Appreciate any tips to make that happen.
You're caught in a catch-22. You need another extender in the middle somewhere. But if you add another extender, it suffers from the same fate of the first one (50% throughput reduction and so by the time you get to the extender in the building, its running at 25%) unless you go with a triband extender which are quite a bit more expensive.
Once you start getting to the more expensive options, its better to invest the little extra and do it right.
You might have luck if you have an old router with external antennas around that could be re-purposed as a wireless bridge or extender. Or Potentially an extender with extenrnal antenna would help. But it might not help much.