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Wifi Extender connectivity issues
I recently purchased an AC1200 Range Extender to play some online xbox one games with. Due to my main router being in the other room and the lagginess I suffered using just the original connection, I...
Hi NickMunz,
1. When connected to the extender, does the Internet connection also drop when browsing or streaming?
2. You can also try changing the wireless channel of the main router to a less congested one and check if there are improvements.
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
I bought the EX6120 Extender last week to give Ubuntu an ethernet connection (5G wifi is such a problem in Linux for a newbie!). I connected to the 5G WLAN and got speeds up to 100Mbs. Then the signal started dropping and auto-reconnecting. I thought it must be my set up actions, so I reset the extender and tried again with the same results.
The signal was strong, especially as the router was only 10 feet away (I didn't want to trail a cable acroos the room). I have used an Android Wifi analyser to see that the channels weren't crowded, and 2G wifi has not dropped connections either. So I figured it was something other than hardware.
I have set up our other devices with a static WLAN address Manually, rather than Automatically. So I set the local address of the 5GEXT in the extender manually so as to be static.
Since then the extender-ethernet connection has not dropped once.
Give it a try. It can be set manually in WIN 10 as well.
How to do this? Google it, there are plenty of vids/descriptions!
Happy searching
Correction! Apologies, I should have said a static address for 5G and not 5GEXT.