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Loosing connection AC 1200
Will I am kind of disappointed with my new AC 1200 . I had bought this to replace my netgear 3000 expander I had for 2 years. Had build a new 3 bedroom house 30x54 raise ranch house and the modem comes in in the basement by the power box I also ran 2 cat 5 cables from bedroom 2 and 3 to the modem and in the living room I have a smart tv and a xbox . My 3000 was plug in at the wall where a closet and 2 small bedrooms away from the comcast wifi modem is in the basment. I would stream videos to my tv from my pc an would at times be choppy and game playing the xbox would get disconnected from the internet. I'm thinking that I will have to run a cat 5 or a 6 from the living room to the modem.
I bought the AC 1200 thinking it would be a lot better than my 3000 "not". I saw I was getting 38% where my 3000 is the modem and 100% to my xbox and tv and tried bedroom 3 and pick up at 64% but was back in loosing connection to the tv and xbox?
So even in spending the money on a powerful expander and having a unfinished basement with all the air ducts and wires and pipes it does not work unless your on the same level as the modem. So now that I have to run a cat5 from the living room will a wifi router be better to connect in the living room or just add a cat5 splitter to the tv an xbox , I did want wifi thru out the house. :mad:
I bought the AC 1200 thinking it would be a lot better than my 3000 "not". I saw I was getting 38% where my 3000 is the modem and 100% to my xbox and tv and tried bedroom 3 and pick up at 64% but was back in loosing connection to the tv and xbox?
So even in spending the money on a powerful expander and having a unfinished basement with all the air ducts and wires and pipes it does not work unless your on the same level as the modem. So now that I have to run a cat5 from the living room will a wifi router be better to connect in the living room or just add a cat5 splitter to the tv an xbox , I did want wifi thru out the house. :mad:
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- Will it seems that at 38% {signal strength} from where the AC1200 is plug in {about 48 feet} away from the wifi modem in the basement, seems to be more stable for the tv and xbox than if I had it in bedroom 3 at 64% {about 38 feet away} guest I can live with that. I stream a 2hr move thru my network from my pc witch is in my bedroom 3 an had no problem with it. I would had been more happy if I could had gotten like 70% to 100% signal strength from my AC1200
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