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OwenH
Nov 03, 2022Follower
Nighthawk X6s Extender EX8000 losing connection while under heavy load?
This is a long one so I apologies in advance! This is being used in a home environment on windows machines. So I am using the model above on the firmware V1.0.1.240 set up as a mesh extender, an...
plemans
Nov 03, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Try rerunning the setup assistant on the extender. during setup, make sure to uncheck the "extend 2.4ghz network" option.
You'll still be able to use it but it won't use it as failover for the backhaul if the 5ghz goes down.