Netgear Wifi extender

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I've just changed my wifi router and had to set up my 2 extenders again. On the old router each of the extenders had a different name. First was wifiprovider. EXT and the second wifiprovider EXT_EXT.

Now I've set them again, both the extenders are called wifiprovider EXT and so don't differentiate.

Is this diluting the strength of the wifi and if so how do I re-name the second one?

thanks

NickN99 · Answer

Thanks for your help

plemans · Answer

If they're daisy chained it can.&nbsp;Reason why is a standard extender has to receive and then retransmit using the same wireless chip. and it can't do both at once. So they are already going to be at 50% throughput compared to the router. add another extender to the prior and it'll drop to 25%.&nbsp;&nbsp;

NickN99 · Answer

Hi I set both up independently via the main router so I'm not daisy chaining from one extender to the other, My point is that previously each extender identified itself separately but this time they've both got the same _ext name which may well be diluting?

plemans wrote:
If they're daisy chained it can.
Reason why is a standard extender has to receive and then retransmit using the same wireless chip. and it can't do both at once. So they are already going to be at 50% throughput compared to the router. add another extender to the prior and it'll drop to 25%.

plemans · Answer

potentially last time they were daisy chained which would be why it was ***_ext&nbsp; and ****_ext_ext.&nbsp;&nbsp;

NickN99 · Answer

plemans&nbsp;wrote:potentially last time they were daisy chained which would be why it was ***_ext&nbsp; and ****_ext_ext.&nbsp;Thanks that stacks up. So last question, how can I set up 2 extenders effectively to work in different locations? Or is that what I've actually done and is why i have .ext on both?&nbsp;&nbsp;

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