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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 l...
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.- Yes I understand that, that said one other post said doing it that way each extender may try to connect with each other due to each having the same SSID and could cause dropouts. Just didn’t want to use this second one if that’s the case. But I could always change the SSID for the second one and hopefully that would resolve it. Thanks again!