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Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 Desktop WiFi Range Extender (EX7000-100NAS; AC1900)'s bad wifi connections.
Hello. Pinging Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 Desktop WiFi Range Extender (EX7000-100NAS; AC1900)'s IP address are nice and stable like: --- 192.168.1.131 ping statistics --- 37 packets transmitted, ...
plemans wrote:A couple questions/thoughs.
1. The computer doing the pinging. How is it connected to the network? wired? wireless? and if wireless, is it connected through the router or through the extender? If wired, is it connected to the router or the extender?
2. Extenders do increase ping/latency times. Reason why is they have to go device----->extender----->router---->extender---->device (if both devices connected to extender). Thats a lot of hops and increases in time. Plus wireless adds latency versus wired.
3. Even the router could be adding latency or the modem if you have a modem/router combo device
What firmware is on the extender?
What router are you connected to?
Are you pinging over 5ghz? or 2.4gh? 2.4ghz is more suseptible to interference and is much slower than 5ghz.
Are you using fastlane or not?
1. Computer's network cable to the old Netgear R6300 v1 router to ping.
2. Interesting. I wonder if mesh wifi would fix this.
3. It is an old Netgear R6300 v1 router from 2012.
I updated the extender's firmware (v1.0.1.90_1.0.156) a couple days ago, and it didn't help. I am pinging with 2.4 Ghz. 5 Ghz is too far and weak. As for FastLane, it is using its default "Basic - Connect devices on both 2.4 and 5Ghz bands at the same time. Extends both WiFi bands at the same time (2.4 and 5Ghz), but reduces WiFi performance." 5 Ghz doesn't work well for far away areas. Also, I have old wifi devices that don't even know 5 Ghz. :(
I am fiddling with the extender's FastLane's settings not to use its default basics. From router to wifi extender, I left the 2.4 Ghz since that's far and has walls, mirrors, pipes, doors, a chimney, etc. After extender to wifi devices, I left the 5Ghz since it is closer to the wifi devices and doesn't have many walls and pipes. Strange that my old devices can still connect to the same SSID. Anyways, it's seems to be better (lower pings) but not perfect (still see high pings when using the Internet and packet losses). We'll see how this goes.