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extending range of Nighthawk r7000 to basement
My r7000 is located on the first floor at one end of the house and serves all devices throughout the house, but I can't seem to get a signal in the basement about 2/3 the length away. I am trying to use a Roku Express 4K+ to connect with the router but to no avail. The TV I am trying to get connected to has Roku built into it, so maybe there is some redundancy, but just going that way for now. I have an older Netgear Model 3000 that runs at 2.4GHz, which is also one of the speeds on the r7000.
If I set the Model 3000 up in the basement below the r7000, should it pick up the signal and act as a wifi relay to the Roku down the way in the basement? Or will I need a long ethernet cable or some connecting cable to do the job? I hope not. I could move the TV closer under the r7000 with some rearranging in the basement. Since the wifi signal passes through several walls upstairs, should it pass through the floor with the Roku right below it? I would prefer the Model 3000 picking up the signal and sending the signal across the basement. I just thought of this but want to bounce it off anyone who has greater knowledge than I do on this subject.
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Cre8tv wrote:
I have an older Netgear Model 3000 that runs at 2.4GHz, which is also one of the speeds on the r7000.
That's not a Netgear model number that I recognise, but "2.4 GHz" tells me that it is old.
If I set the Model 3000 up in the basement below the r7000, should it pick up the signal and act as a wifi relay to the Roku down the way in the basement?It may or may not support "repeater" (wireless bridge) mode. You may need something newer.
If the TV supports Ethernet you could see if something like Powerline Ethernet would work. That turns the mains circuit into an Ethernet network, with no need to add more cables.
If you looking at getting something for streaming to the Roku, i'd upgrade past a 2.4ghz only extender.
2.4ghz is sensitive to interference and a slow network. Not that great for video streaming.
If it was me and I was looking at buying an extender? I'd look at the tribands.
They have a dedicated backhaul for just router---extender communication so they don't take as much of a speed hit as the standard single/dual band extenders do. The standard single/dual band extenders drop throughput by 50% by the nature of how they work. The tribands don't suffer from that.
Tribands: EX7500, EX7700, EX8000, RBS40V (has an extender mode)
plemans wrote:
If it was me and I was looking at buying an extender? I'd look at the tribands.
They have a dedicated backhaul for just router---extender communication so they don't take as much of a speed hit as the standard single/dual band extenders do. The standard single/dual band extenders drop throughput by 50% by the nature of how they work. The tribands don't suffer from that.
Would they place nice with the R7000, which is now getting a bit long in the tooth?
If so, it might be a good way of improving the overall Wifi in what seems to be an iffy installation.
Sure would.
The R7000's 5ghz is a 3x3 with its 5ghz supporting 1300mbps.
The EX7500, EX7700, RBS40V all support a 866mbps backhaul link speed so the R7000 would do fine with it.
the EX8000 supports using either the 866mbps or the 1733mbps link for the backhaul so you could use either. (I'd use the wider 1733mbps as the backhaul is key if you went that route)
The EX7500/EX7700 can be found for pretty cheap used. The EX8000 is still pretty expensive even used as its performance is still pretty darned fast even compared with the AX extenders because of its backhaul. I've got both and the EAX80 just barely beats it on speed but the ex8000 has lower latency with its dedicated backhaul. I'd love to see a triband AX extender and what it could do
