NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Nighthawk EX7700 installing 2 extenders less than 30 feet from main wifi router
I wanted to upgrade my wifi extenders and the signal performance, but since installing the 2 x Nighthawk EX7700 extenders as access points at each end of the house the wifi signal is dropping. I can...
I was installing as a star, but it looks like the EX7700 are too close to each other and this is causing the drop outs.
So best to install these as 2 seperate SSID's or do i set the 2 x EX700's with the one SSID for both of these and the main router stays with its current SSID?
I think it might be better to use the EX7700 as extenders rather than access points, i dont need the ethernet ports so this might help.
I'd try several different settings and see what works best for your situation and stability.
If you're running them in AP mode, I'd use seperate ssid's.
If you're using extender mode you could try them all with the same ssid. I've occassionally seen issues with this though. An option is to leave one extender with the same ssid as the router. Or the extenders with the same ssid's and router different. Several different things to try to optimize for your network.