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R7000 Nighthawk wired to EX6200?
I just purchased the R7000 Nighthawk router and while the speed increase has been fantastic the range has not been great. Setup was simple, I installed it in my basement where my old DLINK N router w...
S1DIMMER wrote: Thank you for the replies. The AP setup sounds like what I want to do but the manual says the AP should not have the same SSID and password as the main router. What I'm shooting for is this: As I move around my house I don't want to have to manually switch wifi networks. I want it to be seamless as in a repeater setup.
The trouble with this setup is that regular clients tend to stick with whatever AP they've hooked up to, regardless of the signal strength, so you may come across a scenario where the client is still hooked to your basement R7000 despite the fact that its signal is bad.