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Netgear Wifi extender
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....
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%.
potentially last time they were daisy chained which would be why it was ***_ext and ****_ext_ext.
plemans wrote:potentially last time they were daisy chained which would be why it was ***_ext and ****_ext_ext.
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?
It sounds like what you've done.
The only thing I'd be cautious of is if they have the same ssid, you can potentially get device that connect to the wrong extender.
and they can tend to be "sticky" meaning they'll tend to stay connected until they lose signal. If they have the same ssid its tough to manually go in and choose which to connect to.
If you log into one and add a 2 at the end, you'll know which device is which.
Thanks for your help