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Troubleshooting interferences, looking at channels
I'm getting really bad performance from my home wireless network. It's usable, but annoying. I've got a Netgear WNDR3700v2 router and a Netgear WN2500RP extender. The extender is connected to the r...
If the router is setup to use channel in "auto" then may tried assign specific channel
http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/
use this utility to find the best channel over surrounding the channels.
1,6,11, and 13 for Europe is the choice for 5ghz. Then test out your extender.
Between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, natural characteristic of frequency makes 5Ghz less range then 2.4ghz so if you are on saturated area for 2.4Ghz, then connect extender with 2.4Ghz
Also seems you just left at default in the router for 130Mbps and yes, it is 20Mhz. You can change wireless mode to 300Mbps on router as well
http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/
use this utility to find the best channel over surrounding the channels.
1,6,11, and 13 for Europe is the choice for 5ghz. Then test out your extender.
Between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, natural characteristic of frequency makes 5Ghz less range then 2.4ghz so if you are on saturated area for 2.4Ghz, then connect extender with 2.4Ghz
Also seems you just left at default in the router for 130Mbps and yes, it is 20Mhz. You can change wireless mode to 300Mbps on router as well