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AC1900 connects to my centurylink router with no problem but then eventually freezes.
Hello, I have the AC1900 Dual Band wifi mesh extender. My download speed is 2.61Mbps and .61 Mbps from Centurylink and I have no other option for internet.
I plug in my extender and everything connects fine. Within a short time maybe 15 minutes or less I lose my streaming connection. If I unplug ROKU and also Netgear extender it will reset. What I have found is that I just elimanate the Netgear extender and sometimes have to put up with signal buffering but at least everything doesn't freeze up and then I have to reset. I thought the Netgear extender was just suppose to help the signal along to illiminate buffering. Thanks
Tom
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what extender did you buy? AC1900 is a speed.
When you're only dealing with a 2-3 meg connection, I'd highly recommend using netgears fastlane.
A standard dual/single band extender cuts throughput in half. This happens because the signal has to go router----extender and then extender---devices and the chip that routes it, can't do both at once.
By using fastlane, it dedicates one of the bands for just router----extender communicaiton. I don't usually recommend fastlane as 2.4hgz is a slow network and can be a bottleneck. But when you're only running at 2-3meg, thats the bottleneck.
So try logging into the extender and set it up using the fastlane method.
Also, extenders won't eliminate buffering if devices are buffering because of your slow connection speed.
