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EX6120- Multipal Externders?
Hello!! New to setting things up and not very good with computers... I have one extender set up .... but i would like to set up 2 more - with a total of 3 extenders... * Do i run through the...
I wouldn't recommend it.
I usually advise people needing more than 1 extender to move to a full mesh system like Orbi or the MK nighthawk.
Reason why is standard single/dual band extenders (and even dual band mesh systems) drop throughput 50%. this happens because they have to use the same chip to go router---extender and then extender----devices and they can't do both at once. And this is based off the signal they receive. so if you're a bit a ways away or have a lot of interference, they're initial signal can be quite lower than what was at the router. And then if you daisy chain, you're cutting that already greatly reduced speed in half again.
Plus you can have issues as they can create interference with each other since there isn't anything controlling the system. Versus the orbi system has the router than controls the satellites.
Its the main reason I don't recommend more than 1 extender.
And if you're needing that 3x extenders, I'd be looking at the triband mesh systems and not dual band.