nighthawk AC 2200 EX7300

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I live in France and have an Orange&nbsp; router. I wanted to extend wifi to all rooms and added 5 nighthawk AC 2200 EX7300 extenders. Have just read on site that you cannot "daisy chain" the extenders. How can I extend coverage without daisy chaining.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

plemans · Answer

You can daisy chain extenders.&nbsp;but the problem is how much it'll slow your speed and increase your latency.&nbsp;Extenders by their very nature drop speeds 50% of what they revieve from the router. This happens because the extender has to use the same chip to go router----&gt;extender&nbsp; and then extender----&gt;device.&nbsp; And it can't do both at once.&nbsp;So if the extender is at a bit of distance from the router or has interference, the extenders already going to be recieving a lower signal/speed. Then you cut that in half. so maybe getting 30-40% of the routers speed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Add another extender in daisy chain and its its running at half of what it gets from the first extender. So at best its maybe running at 10-20% of the routers initial speed. Add in another one and your 5-10%.&nbsp; You've got 5. That final one is barely functional if its working.&nbsp;Plus each hop adds latency. That's why daisy chaining isn't recommend.&nbsp;&nbsp;What we usually recommend for people needing more than 1 extender is moving to a mesh system. and if you're needing 5x of them or daisychaining, I'd highly recommend a tri-band mesh system over dual band.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can use multiple extenders but we recommend using them in a star configuration to where each extender connects back to the router and not to another extender.&nbsp;

gbnovo · Answer

Thank you for reply. My router is in the basement. I do have an ethernet connection to the ground and first floor. Could I connect a mesh extender to each then add an extender to each for better coverage losing less speed.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

plemans · Answer

When the extenders are hardwired in, they are setup as access points. They don't support mesh mode when ran in access points.

So can you hardwire in 2x of them and run them as access points and then connect an extender to each in mesh mode?
sure. but you'll have the access points on different wifi channels (or should)

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