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Poor Speed & poor Reception
I purchased two AC1200 wifi extender for my 1800 SF home, abour (4) months ago. The home has three levels and the spectrum Wifi router was not providing broadband to areas that need Wifi for Nest th...
What actual router do you have?
What actual extender do you have? (hint, ac1200 is a speed, not a model)
What firmware is on the extenders?
Are you setting them up using a star configuration or using a daisy chain?
Daisy chain: router---->extender------>extender
Star: Extender<----------router-------->extender
Also, how are you testing?
2.4ghz is much more sensitive to interference and is a much slower network.
Another thing to keep in mind is the dual and single band extenders drop throughput (speed) 50% of what they recieve. This happens becuse they have to go router---->extender and then extender----->device using the same chip. And it can't do both at once. So you'll get a speed drop because of distance and interference. Then you get the 50% speed reduction. And if you're daisy chaining, the 2nd one is only running at 25%
Its why triband extenders and triband mesh systems became so popular. They have the dedicated backhaul that prevents that speed loss