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Good connection - Poor speed
So I have the EX6200 setup in a granny flat and it was giving me 25-35 Mbps speeds. Suddenly there was a drop in speed to around 2 Mbps. After talking to telstra and making sure my gateway was fine I put my extender next to the gateway and I get 35+ speeds. Putting it back to its original location I still only get 2 Mbps.
The thing is I can stand right next to the extender and connect to the gateway directly and get speed of 28+. I have no idea why the EX6200 has suddenly stopped putting through the speeds it had previously. It still has a solid green light connection to the 2.4 gateway (5 not supported)
The thing is I can stand right next to the extender and connect to the gateway directly and get speed of 28+. I have no idea why the EX6200 has suddenly stopped putting through the speeds it had previously. It still has a solid green light connection to the 2.4 gateway (5 not supported)
2 Replies
- Something in your network environment that is causing the speed drop as you mentioned 35+ speeds when you move it closer to the router.
Recommendation:
- remove any wireless device that might interfere in between the router and the extender
- place the extender where you still get strong signal from the router (test this using your laptop)
- try changing the channel use inSSIDer to set the right channel for your network.
http://www.inssider.com/downloads/ I may have discovered the panacea!!!
I have been trying since 9am (it is now 10:15pm) to configure a Linksys WRT1200ac Router and a Netgear EX6200 extender. From the beginning and using their tools, everything worked EXCEPT I could not connect via the extender to the 2GHz band. I tried every solution I could find and nothing worked. Then I tried playing around with the security methods. Both the 2GHz and the 5GHz bands were always configured in the router to use WPA/WPA2 Personal. I first switched the Security Method for the 2GHz band to NONE and, lo and behold, everything worked as advertised and at unbelievable speeds. I was getting 45-60Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. Not wanting to leave the band completely open I tried configuring it with WEP. The system warned me that his would disable WPS and also would not accommodate devices using N-protocol. I did it anyway and now it is unbelievable. On the 2.4GHz band after 5 speedtests, I got speeds averaging 45 Mbps (down) and 22.7 Mbps (up). On the 5GHz band my speeds were consistently better than 50Mbps (down). And this is through the Extender!!! The speeds from the router on the base bands (2.4 and 5) were breaking all records that I have ever seen before.
One would think that both Linksys and Netgear would have discovered already something as significant as the effect of Security Methods on throughput, but I searched again and found nothing on the web that speaks to this discovery!!
Don Brown
