EX6120 eXtender with terrible speed

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taavi wrote:

Hi.

 

I am struggling to understand the speed I'm getting off this extender. If I stand right next to it and connect to my 2.4GHz wifif I see 250mbs download.-----doubt it. Even the latest generation wifi 7 devices struggle to maintain over 100mbps over 2.4ghz. I'm betting you have a combines 2.4/5ghz network and are actually on the 5ghz. This starting point makes me question either your testing, connection, device, or some other aspect that is skewing your results. 

 

 If I switch the the extender network I'm see less than 10 mbs!!!! ---depends on what its starting from for an actual 2.4ghz signal. 2.4ghz is a slow network and sensitive to interference. Also extenders cut throughput 50% of what they recieve because they have to use the same chip to go router---extender and then extener---devices. And they can't do both at once. So their speed will be less than half (because there's also distance, interference, obstruction to worry about).   If I scan for signal strength both networks are similar standing right next to it. 

 

I'm using the Wifiman android app to test.-----this also can make the phone the bottleneck too.  Howe is this possible that the download speed via the extender is so terrible compared to connecting directly to the wifi network that the extender is connected to?  

 

Any explanation gratefully received as seems a pointless device as was intended to get a signal into the garden, but better off with weak main network.-----Extender are great at adding distance to a network at the cost of reduced speeds. If you have coverage in the garden that is half decent, an extender isn't always a good option. they're best suited for those areas that don't have coveage and then you place the extender midway so it still has a good signal to pickup and retransmit. 

 

Thanks 

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