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Wifi Extender EX2700
I have the above wifi extender which i am trying to connect to my kitchen smart tv. It seems the distance between Extender and router is too great. I don't want to move the tv if possible. can my EX...
Can it? yes.
Should you? With that extender, absolutely not.
Standard dual/single band extenders have to use the same wireless chip to go router----extender and then extender----devices. And they can't do both at once. so they drop throughput 50% of what they receive. So if they're already at the edge of their range, they're connection is already reduced and then you drop that 50%. It can be very slow. And then you add another one and that drops the speed another 50% plus its distance/interference.
And that extender wasn't fast to start with and it suffers because its a 2.4ghz extender only. 2.4ghz has a ton of interference.
How big is the home?
How far from the router is the extender and then the tv?
These are key as you might not need to add another extender, you might just need to switch to a better/dual band one because 5ghz is a much faster network so can take the speed reduction better.