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Looking for a MESH Extender
I am replacing my WiFi network. Had installed it in December 2014. I had a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 and 2 Netgear extenders. I live in a New York coop with wire mesh walls and plenty of local inter...
Everybody around your apartment does the same. All try to put up more power, more Mesh systems, illegal antennas, high-power WiFi equipment, HDMI extensions over wireless, wireless audio systems, and much more. Everything does happen on essentially two bands, resp, one 2.4 GHz band and two 5 GHz band parts (and the bandwidth hungry ones use all). What is going on over the air - a single shared medium with a very small public frequency band(s) available - will hit whatever issues. Collisions, interference, ... nightmare!
There is only one advise: Install network cables from your router (somewhere at a central place, or near to the Internet [two-wire, cable TV, fiber, ...] inlet into all areas of your apartment where you need coverage, and better coverage. Add wireless access points in each of these network cable outlets.