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EX6110 Poor speed
Hi am using a Netgear EX6110 WiFi extender. My routed gives a speed of more than 200 Mbps at source. The WiFi extender is in a room where the speed from the original router is still more than 150 Mbps but when I connect a device through the WiFi extender in this same room the speed is about 20 Mbps, and even worse in the adjacent room in which I am trying to work. I can't find any information within the Netgear website that helps me troubleshoot this effectively useless performance.
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are you connected to 2.4ghz or 5ghz?
2.4ghz is a slow network and sensitive to interference
Thanks for that advice. The 5gHz is definitely better but I don't understand why even when I stand close to the wifi extender the speed is so much lower than I can pick up in the same spot from the original router itself. The box for the extender says WiFi up to 1200 Mbps. What does that mean?
The problem is a misunderstanding of how extenders work.
both single and dual band extenders drop the speed that they receive by 50%. Reason this happens is that the same chip that has to go router---extender and then extender----devices is the same chip and it can't do both at once.
Extenders are great at adding range for dead spots or no coverage but if the router has a half decent signal, it'll be faster.
