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Setup Question Involving Configuration for an NG Universal Wi-Fi Ranger Extender, Model: WN2000RPT2
My Range Extender has a WPN button and so does my router. If I "introduce" the Range Extender to the router by using the WPN buttons on each device, is that all I need to do to configure the Range Extender?
I have seen videos on configuring my particular Range Extender and none of them involve use of the WPN buttons. Instead, they show a complicated procedure using the computer's browser and making various selections in a configuration screen that comes up on the computer screen. Is it necessary to do all that if you have WPN buttone on your Netgear device and your router, or can you just do it the easy way, by using the WPN buttons?
1. What router are you connect it to?
2. did you set it up using wps? if so, factory reset the extender and install it using the installation assistant and NOT wps. Wps can get coded different between manufacturers and cause issues.
3. 2.4ghz is much slower than 5ghz. Those speeds over 2.4ghz aren't unexpected. And its because of the slow speed of 2.4ghz and the base nature of how extenders have to work. Standard extenders will drop speeds from the extender by 50%. Reason why is they have to send/recieve from router---extender and then extender----device and they can't do both at once. (tribands don't have this limitation because they have a dedicated backhaul)
Extenders are great at covering deadspots and adding to the range. But they usually don't increase speeds unless the router doesn't have coverage to an area.
So you first need to get the 5ghz working. the 2.4ghz speeds are fairly standard for dual/single band extenders. you should get more speed from 5ghz though but you first have to get it working.
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I meant WPS button .....
You can use WPS, the details are in the user manual here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/WN2000RPT_UM_05MAR2012.pdf
If it fails, then use the web browser setup method (which isn't difficult, though it might look that way on the video).
Thanks. I know I can use WPS - that wasn't my question. My question is, is one better than the other? I did download and print up the manual and I did read it (RTFM). The manual seems to say that if your router is equipped to handle a WPS configuration, that is the best way to go and you should only use the computer configuration method if WPS is not available. This implies (at least to me) that either method reaches the same result, that one way is no better than the other. Would you agree?
