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Netgear AC1200 Wifi Range Extender EX6150 - slow speed
Hi, We have just bought an extender as we were unable to receive any wifi connection at our backyard. With the netgear extender we are now receiving wifi connection at our backyard which is great but the speed is fairly slow. We are wanting to know if there are ways in the set up of the extender that will enable to speed it up to the current wifi speed.
Thank you P
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Hello Grace77 - This is normal with wireless extenders as it will cut the wifi speeds in half so it should be slower than the normal wifi network unless you are using it as a access point using an ethernet cord.
~Christian
I was thinking that it will help extend the wifi connection to part of the house which had no connection at all. It has done that as now our back yard has connection but it is quite slow and some part of the backyard is still not receiving any connection. The current wifi router is downloading at a speed of 25Mbps and the extender is only downloading at 3Mbps. You are suggesting below to use it as an access point using an ethernet cord and that will give us the same speed as the wifi router?
Grace77 wrote:
You are suggesting below to use it as an access point using an ethernet cord and that will give us the same speed as the wifi router?
Using it as an access point will improve the performance, but there's no guarantee your backyard will get the full ISP speed,
Still, if it is something that is easy for you to try, then it would be a good next step.
There can be many factors - depends on the signal level and quality the extender has for the connection to the primary router, probably the configuration (using some FastTrack?). Last but not least, in "normal" extender operation mode all packets are going over the same wireless network (and channels) twice. Slow is relative - you might want to provide more details about your current extender config and status.
