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AC750 / EX3700 misleading red router light and signal strength
I just installed an AC750 / EX3700 range extender yesterday, and it works great, however, the Router light goes from green to orange to red within a few minutes no matter where I situate it. Coinciding with this sequence is an observable indication via the extender's web interface of the 2.4Ghz signal strength steadily dropping from 130Mbps down to 6Mbps. HOWEVER, when I run speed tests through the extender, I am consistently seeing 30Mbps d/l, and any device I connect to it appears to work fine. Checking my main router logs (a Netgear WNDR4000), I see nothing unusual. The extended was assigned an IP via DHCP yesterday, and there are no additional entries for its MAC address.
Based on actual performance, the red Router light and the indication of poor signal strength via the web interface appear to be misleading.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what may be causing this?
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kteague wrote:
HOWEVER, when I run speed tests through the extender, I am consistently seeing 30Mbps d/l, and any device I connect to it appears to work fine.
Double check you have really used the 2.4 GHz channel by selecting the network name for this band. If the connection does became really bad, well possible your wireless client has changed to the 5 GHz band.
- Here is where the extender's display quickly settles (6Mbps) after initially indicating 130Mbps for the 2.4Ghz connection. This happens no matter what channel I configure on my wndr4000. Yet speedtests consistently register around 25Mbps d/l...and my client smartphone is indeed connected to the extender.
