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Willyx2
Dec 22, 2020Follower
NETGEAR Wi-Fi Range Extender EX3700
I have the ex3700 (extend up to 1000 ft.) and have connected my arlo security camera hub via the ethernet outlet on the extender.
It shows that arlo shows it defaulted to the 5G network. Im looking to find out if I can change the ethernet port speed on the extender to 2.4G to increase the range for an outside distant camera. Will that help?
If I buy another netgear extender that extends up to 1200 ft. will I capture the farthest camera, its outside and will be about 75ft from the arlo hub.
any suggestions will be helpful
Thanks in advance.
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- plemansGuru - Experienced User
Willyx2 wrote:I have the ex3700 (extend up to 1000 ft.) and have connected my arlo security camera hub via the ethernet outlet on the extender.
It shows that arlo shows it defaulted to the 5G network. Im looking to find out if I can change the ethernet port speed on the extender to 2.4G to increase the range for an outside distant camera. Will that help?----I'm not sure what you're going for here. The EX3700 uses but the 2.4ghz and the 5ghz for extending and utilization. but its going to defaults the ethernet connection to the 5ghz because its so much faster. So its still extending both. So I'm not sure if I'm being dense or just not fully understanding what you're trying to do?
If I buy another netgear extender that extends up to 1200 ft. will I capture the farthest camera, its outside and will be about 75ft from the arlo hub.----I highly recommend against daisy chaining extenders. Reason why is they take a throughput hit and latency hit. Becuase of how they have to work, (router----extender and then extender---->devices and they can't do both at once) they take a 50% speed hit. And thats for 1 extender. add another one and its running at max 25% of the speed of the router. And thats of the signal its getting. So you can potentially have really low speeds by the 2nd extender. And it has much higher latency. the triband extenders are a bit more tolerant of it because of their dedicated backhaul but I still usually advise against it.
any suggestions will be helpful
Thanks in advance.