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Best solution for old house with large stone walls
NETGEAR EX7500-100UKS Nighthawk Mesh X4S Wall-Plug Tri-Band WiFi Range Extender. I have a large old house with 3ft thick stone walls. The wi-fi signal from the router is quite powerful and extends w...
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I have bought a NETGEAR EX6120 and a EX6130 to extend signal to the wi-fi black spots. Both extenders are linked to the router and up and working but I am disappointed by the range. I'm not so much bothered about speed for the black spots because those areas only need email and browser access but I would like greater range. Will I achieve greater range if I enable the FastLane Technology using either 2.4GHz or 5GHz rather than both bands at the same time with the Basic mode? If so which FastLane option would give the greater range?
If range is still limited would I be better changing to Access Point rather than Range Extender?
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I would not expect FastLane to have any effect on range. An Access Point may not necessarily have better range, either, though it should be faster.
What kind of walls do you have? Concrete? Brick? Plaster? Or drywall? Wi-Fi cannot penetrate the first 3 very well.
What kind of walls do you have? Concrete? Brick? Plaster? Or drywall? Wi-Fi cannot penetrate the first 3 very well.
My house is 17th century. It has 3ft thick limestone exterior walls and some load-bearing interior walls are likewise. However, other interior walls are plaster and lathe or insulated plasterboard. Therefore, wifi signals travel from the router in an irratic and unpredicable manner throughout the building. The wi-fi extenders are functioning and delvering signal to the previous back spots but I had hoped for stronger signals. I posted in the hope that someone might have advice on increasing the strength of the signal.
- The best solution is to deploy Access Points wired back to the main router. Ethernet wiring is preferred, with coax a close second. Powerline is a distant third. Any kind of wireless solution is very unlikely to perform well in your case.