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Rsmith3752
Jan 12, 2022Tutor
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...
plemans
Jan 13, 2022Guru - Experienced User
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.
Rsmith3752
Jan 13, 2022Tutor
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!