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kky29
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Jul 31, 2017

WiFi Extender Ex6200 AC1200

I have this AC1200 Netgear wifi extender Model EX6200 for quite some time. It has always been a problem in continuous connecting to the 5G EXT network. Every few hours our iphone connection drops fro...
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DarrenM
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Aug 08, 2017

If you do not have any devices that connect via 2.4ghz to the extender you could try the fastlane setting to make it 5ghz only.

 

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exxtreme76401
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Aug 09, 2017
Also note that 2.4ghz has a longer range than 5 GHz. If you are near the max distance it will drop the connection. Try the 2.4 channel and see if this doesn't help with this.