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Chriiisss
Aspirant
Nov 27, 2015

Range Extender ex7000 network issue

Hello.   I bought the Nighthawk range extender ex7000 today. I configured it correctly, it worked fine. After a few hours I got ping issues, Which I didn't have before. My ping goes up to 400+ t...
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Babylon5
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 27, 2015

In what mode have you configured the EX7000? Is it set up as an Access Point or Extender, if extender are you using one of the Fastlane options? What is the base station that the EX7000 connects to?

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    Chriiisss
    Aspirant
    Nov 27, 2015

    I have it set up as an extender, and I'm not using the fastlane options.

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      Babylon5
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Nov 27, 2015

      What is the base-station? Is it and/or the client devices dual band? If so then Fastlane could make a significant difference to performance.

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        Chriiisss
        Aspirant
        Nov 27, 2015

        My router is dual band, but not all of my devices are dual band.