I have a biggish house with brick walls and concrete floors. My R8500 router is downstairs at one end of the house and the wifi signal does not get to upstairs at the other end. One range extender is also not enough to get the 5ghz signal to the other end of the house (2.4 GHz is OK with one extender). So I bought two EX7500 extenders as they are advertised as working with Nighthawk Mesh.
Problem is they won't work as a mesh.
I connected the first EX7500 about 1/3rd of the way through the house from the R8500. All good.
I connected the second EX7500 to the netywork 2/3rds of the way through the house and it will only talk to the R8500, not the other EX7500 (ie star, not mesh).
I have gone in to the settings on the second EX7500 and it sees all three 5GHZ connections (all have one name), two from the R8500 and one from the first EX7500. I then select the one I assume is from the first EX7500 (ie the one with a much better signal), go through the remaining steps, but when it comes back to the status screen it is still connected to the R8500 via a poor connection. If any device connectees to the 5GHz extension from that second EX7500 it can't get a usuable data connection.
How do I make it work as a 'mesh'? Or is it false advertising and doesn't actually work as a mesh?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Model: EX7500|AC2200 Nighthawk X4S Tri Band Wall Plug WiFi Range Extender
based on an answer I received in this forum, the daisy-chaining (mesh) only will work if the second repeater can't see the router anymore. So try to move it further away so that it can only see the first repeater.
