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Reduced Speed from N300 Extender
On my Windows 10 laptop I am receiving Wifi 21MB from my router. I extended the signal with a N300 WN3000RP V3 unit. However, when connecting my laptop to the extended signal, my Wifi speed then dr...
Thanks for info plemans. I will look into triband extenders. Cheers, Tarka
thats normal for extenders.
Reason they drop throughput 50% is because they have to use the same chip to go router----extender and then extender---devices.
and they can't do both at once. So while the extender is talking to the router, it can't talk to the devices.
That causes the 50% throughput reduction.
Its the whole reason for triband extenders and mesh systems. They have a dedicated backhaul that is only used for the router------extender communication. This prevents the drop.
Thanks for info plemans. I will look into triband extenders. Cheers, Tarka