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EX3700 extender 5ghz won't both connect and repeat simultaneously
For some odd reason, I believed I should be able to connect the extender to the 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands in my home, and then repeat them both. It seems this is a challenge. If I connect the 2.4ghz and ...
I did try one my thing this afternoon, which didn't really help me but may be of general interest: I connected the extender via 5GHz only to the router. This worked in the sense that I could then connect to both the 5 and 2.4GHz extended signals. So if you want to connect to the router via either 2.4GHz or 5GHz, then it seems to work, but if you connect the router via both 2.4 and 5GHz, then only the 2.4GHz extended signal works.
Since at the location I want the extender, the 2.4GHz router signal is the strongest, in the end I've just connected to the router via 2.4GHz, which gives me usable 2.4 and 5GHz extended signals. However, I agree that this seems like a bug that Netgear should fix.
...I'm no expert, (and I've been having the same problem) but when I look at the Client List on my router, I see only 1 instance of this device listed, with only 1 IP address at the 2.4 ghz level. Shouldn't each band have it's own IP on my router, if there is indeed 2 seperate connections? (a 2.4 ghz and a 5 ghz ?)