netgear nighthawk Nighthawk AC1900

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Will you guys please make a recommendation for me if you've already researched this.&nbsp; I need to add a range extender and need to know from your experiance if I should just buy ORGI or if adding a range extender will be sufficent for my 2000 square foot home.&nbsp; I work from home and my home office is 100 feet from my router and the response is just too slow for work.&nbsp; Any recommendations?&nbsp; Thanks in advance.&nbsp; I've been really pleased with all my netgear products over the years.&nbsp;&nbsp;

happyfingers123 · Answer

Thanks so much.&nbsp; It makes sense.Thanks my friend

plemans · Answer

in terms of extenders, I'd push for the triband extenders.

Reason why is a standard extender drops throughput (speed) 50%. reason it does this is it has to transmit and recieve on the same chip and it can't do both at once.

The tri-bands mitigate this by reservering 1 of the 2 5ghz chips just for router-----extender communication.

so if you're going extender, I'd go with one of the tribands.

If you do decide to go with an Orbi setup (love mine), they work great but I'd also push for the triband version and not the dual band.

sktn77a · Answer

"A standard extender drops throughput (speed) 50%. reason it does this is it has to transmit and recieve on the same chip and it can't do both at once. The tri-bands mitigate this by reservering 1 of the 2 5ghz chips just for router-----extender communication."

True but be careful what you buy. If I understand correctly, typically the tri-band will have two slower chips for the send and receive bands so you end up with the same speed as a dual-band! For example the Netgear EX7500 triband AC2200 extender has the 5GHz send and receive bands at:

Band 1: 400Mbps @2.4GHz - 256QAM

Band 2: 866Mbps 5Ghz - 256QAM

Band 3: 866Mbps 5Ghz - 256QAM

The Netgear has EX7300 dual band AC2200 extender has the 5GHz send/receive band at:

Band 1 450Mbps @ 2.4GHz

Band 2 1733Mbps 5Ghz

Isn't advertising speak wonderful?

plemans · Answer

itigate this by reservering 1 of the 2 5ghz chips just for router-----extender communication."&nbsp;True but be careful what you buy.&nbsp; If I understand correctly, typically the tri-band will have two slower chips for the send and receive bands so you end up with the same speed as a dual-band!&nbsp; For example the Netgear EX7500 triband AC2200 extender has the 5GHz send and receive bands at:Band 1: 400Mbps @2.4GHz - 256QAMBand 2: 866Mbps 5Ghz - 256QAMBand 3: 866Mbps 5Ghz - 256QAM&nbsp;&nbsp;The Netgear has EX7300 dual band AC2200 extender has the 5GHz send/receive band at:Band 1&nbsp; 450Mbps&nbsp;@ 2.4GHz&nbsp;Band 2&nbsp; 1733Mbps&nbsp;5Ghz&nbsp;Isn't advertising speak wonderful?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But the triband would still have an edge due to the dual band having higher latency.&nbsp;And thats if you're EX7300 and the router had the same 5ghz capabilities.&nbsp;And the EX8000 has the full 1733mbps backhaul or option to use it as a fronthaul (with then slower backhaul).&nbsp;It gets complicated when you start getting down to the nuts/bolt but for simplicity sake, its why i recommend the tribands.&nbsp;

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