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Trouble setting up new Nighthawk Tri-band WiFi range extender
Hi, I should start by saying I am not very good with technology. We currently have the top broadband with Sky but have had issues with it. We live in a small-ish 3 bedroom house (UK) so our issue...
What materials is your home made from? Size isn't always the issue. Certain materials like brick, concrete, metal, plaster lathe, adobe all do great jobs of blocking wifi. Adding wireless extenders isn't always prductive as it needs a good connection to work off.
plemans wrote:What materials is your home made from? Size isn't always the issue. Certain materials like brick, concrete, metal, plaster lathe, adobe all do great jobs of blocking wifi. Adding wireless extenders isn't always prductive as it needs a good connection to work off.
Thanks for your reply. It's made of bricks and mortar. There is only one layer of brickwork with no cavity. Does it sound like this is the issue? Our last broaband provider was much better then our current one. We only had two blackspots upstairs, now the internet can run slowly all over the house at times.
So you're now in a quandary. The brick blocks wifi. But can you get a decent enough signal through it for the ex8000 to work?
tough to say.
It basically comes down to testing. If the ex8000 is shut off, and you connect your phone to the routers 5ghz wifi where you're planning on putting the extender, does it work decently? If so, the extender should also work.
but if its slow, has high latency, then an extender isn't the ideal solution.
If that's the case, what you should be looking at is a mesh system with a wired backhaul if you want seamless roaming. If you don't, then you can simple use the EX8000 in access point mode with it hardwired in. the wired backhaul could be ethernet, a powerline setup, or even a moca adapter setup (ethernet over coax). Homes with walls that block wifi are a challenge and tend to be much more expensive to have consistent wifi connections.
Another thing you can try. many ISP supplied routers are kind of garbage half the time. Try connecting the EX8000 to the router in access point mode and see how well it covers the area versus the isp router.