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NETGEAR - Nighthawk EAX18 AX1750 Wi-Fi 6 Mesh Range Extender
Can you run 2 NETGEAR - Nighthawk EAX18 AX1750 Wi-Fi 6 Mesh Range Extender off the same network with no degradation? Already have 1 in my wife’s office and it’s fine, just bought a second one for my living room. Both will be Wi-Fi from the router due to no wiring in the house. Please advise. Thank you
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Thank you.Can you? yes.
Should you? debatable and depends on how you're setting it up.
to prevent degradation in speeds, set them up in a star configuration and not daisy chained.
Star: extender<-------router------->extender
daisy: router----->extender------>extender
also, if you run into issue with drops/stability problems, set one of the extenders with their own ssid that is seperate from the router/other mesh extender.
- Thanks for responding but due to no wiring in my house and location of router there is no way possible to do Star only daisy due to no wiring. I will not be using the extenders at the same time. My wife works during the day off one and I game at night off the other. Just asking to see if 2 would work this way if not before I open the second one I’ll send back. Thanks
I wasn't meaning wire them in.
I was just meaning make sure the extenders are connecting to the router and not connecting from one extender to the extender. that'll drop throughput.
