Ex7000 dont see an increase in wifi

[Bodga034]

I have 500mbps at modem/router 40 feet away i run speed test and have 90...with extender on or off and even with ethernet cable on...I have latest firmware and using either 2.4 or 5g network same results

[plemans]

What router are you using? 

its the backbone of the system.

also, are you testing over 2.4ghz or 5ghz? 2.4ghz is much slower. 

Something else to keep in mind is that standard extenders (not triband) drop throughput (speed) 50%. Reason why is they have to send and receive data from the router and then send/recieve from the device connecting to. And they can't do both at once. They're great at adding coverage to dead spots or spots with minimal coverage. 

what speed do you get hardwired into the EX7000? 

[Bodga034]

R7800 netgear

[Bodga034]

What i notice is that I dont have an increase in speed with or without extender being on maybe the modem is the problem but with laptop and mobile device I get good speed no matter how far..and I do have wired into ex7000

[plemans]

Extenders are really only going to help/increase speeds in area's where the router doesn't have coverage. Again, because of the throughput reduction extenders take. 

[Bodga034]

So basically the ex7000 was a poor choice...should I have gotten a repeater instead?

[plemans]

a repeater is an extender. 

Basically does the same thing. 

To get the max speed, you could hardwire in the EX7000 via ethernet, powerline, or using a moca adapter and then run the extender in access point mode. 

[Bodga034]

I guess I need to find out what those are lol