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EX8000 Does not appear to sustain or boost wifi
Hi, Hope everyone is well. I have a nighthawk r7000 router in my office and my wifi does not reach my living room - about 30-40 feet away. I purchased the ex8000 to extend my wifi and to also ass...
Hi,
Thank you for the reply. I live in a standard wood stud / sheetrock home build in 2000ish.
The extender, has most of the white lights lit up (if you count the lights, there are 8 of them, numbering from 1 to 8 - left to right, all lights are solid white except lights 5,6 and 8 which are not illuminated). I just do not see any difference in the signal strength with the extender - I don't think it is doing anything. thanks again.
I just used my tape measurer and the extender is 18 ft and 3 inches from the router - a straight line. I can see it through the doorway - which is always open.
So lets first get the router working decent. 40ft shouldn't be so far that you need an extender. And the EX8000 is a pretty darned good extender. Probably better than the R7000 you're using for a router.
What firmware is on the R7000?
What modem is it connected to?
What speeds do you get in this location off the R7000?
Over 5ghz?
Whatt speeds do you pay for?
What speed do you get hardwired into the router?
Hi, thank you for the reply.
My Router Firmware is v1.0.9.88_10.2.88. My Modem is an Arris SB8200.
I have Cox Inter Premier that has 200 Mbps Download and 10 MBps Upload. Cox Speed Test shows 194.1 download and 9.8 upload over wired connection. Using the Nighthawk app speed test in my office reads 193.5 d and 9.6 u. The nighthawk signal strenght reads around -35dbm for 5G. The Nighthawk app Home Testing feature gives a reading of 866 Mbps for 5G.
SoCaloc wrote:Hi, thank you for the reply.
My Router Firmware is v1.0.9.88_10.2.88. My Modem is an Arris SB8200.
I have Cox Inter Premier that has 200 Mbps Download and 10 MBps Upload. Cox Speed Test shows 194.1 download and 9.8 upload over wired connection. Using the Nighthawk app speed test in my office reads 193.5 d and 9.6 u. The nighthawk signal strenght reads around -35dbm for 5G. The Nighthawk app Home Testing feature gives a reading of 866 Mbps for 5G.
I think you're talking link speed. Link speed and throughput speed are 2 different things.
And testing wifi is challenging because so many things influence wireless.
Try using the speedtest app for speed testing. Even within the app, it doesn't always choose the best server to test with so sometimes you have to change which server it tests off.
another through is the EX8000 uses the single ssid function. If you're devices are on 2.4ghz, its significantly slower than 5ghz speeds. It can penetrate further and through more materials but its a lot slower.
and the EX8000 in single ssid function, band steers. meaning it'll move devices between 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands as needed based on rssi strength and bandwidth needs.
so which band are you speedtesting on?
How big is your home?
Another thought is moving the extender. Sometimes lateral movement is more benefical than closer further away if something like hvac in the walls is blocking signals.
Or changing wifi channels to optimize wifi channel connection.
Many times, people get more benefit from centrally locating a router versus adding in an extender. Extenders work great to extend distance or cover a deadspot but if the primary router provides decent speed, a extender can actually slow speeds and increase latency because the data has to go router-----extender-----device and not just directly to the device.
