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HyImTim
Jan 02, 2018Aspirant
Hardwire the EX7000 instead of wirelessly connecting to the router?
I’m going to try my best to explain my current situation as best as possible since I’m not entirely tech savvy or literate. My current situation is that there are devices that need to be hardwired but...
HyImTim
Feb 18, 2018Aspirant
Thanks for the reply. However I was told that if I did that, it would cut our internet speeds down to 50% if I did this. Is this true?
jvasanth1984
Feb 18, 2018Virtuoso
Hi HyImTim,
Speed of your main network from ISP will be shared between devices connected to your brother's router as well as your devices that you connect via extender. So we cannot say that it'll be 50%, but it purely depends on devices on entire network and bandwidth consumed by each.
- HyImTimFeb 18, 2018AspirantOh okay thank you for the information