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Extend Mode vs AP

ALynch63
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Extend Mode vs AP

Good Evening,

 

What is the difference in configuring the Ex8000 in Extender mode vs AP mode?

When both the NetGear R8000P router and Ex8000 extender are configured both being TriBand should there be One Backhaul or two? Also. is the 2.4Ghz signal affected based on the setup?

 

Thanks,

 

 
 
Model: EX8000|AC3000 Nighthawk X6S Tri Band WiFi Mesh Extender, R8000P|Nighthawk X6S AC4000 Tri Band WiFi Route
Model: EX8000|AC3000 Nighthawk X6S Tri Band WiFi Mesh Extender, R8000P|Nighthawk X6S AC4000 Tri Band WiFi Router
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Razor512
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Re: Extend Mode vs AP

With the EX8000, the extender mode will use one of the radios as a backhaul. If you use the upper 5GHz band (100-161) then the 3 stream radio can make a connection and under good conditions (high SNR) you can get around 700-800Mbps real world throughput. If on the lower band 36-64, then the 2 stream radio will give around 500-600Mbps real world throughput.

 

On the other hand, if using a wired backhaul (as a wired AP), then you effectively have a full and completely consistent 1Gbps backhaul, and all 3 radios can deal with WiFi clients.

 

I will have to do more in-depth testing, though it does not seem to simultaneously use the 2.4GHz and 5GHz backhauls when dealing with a single connection, instead it seems to just pick the best performing backhaul for each packet, though to be 100% sure, I will have to get multiple clients on the EX8000 and have each run a benchmark that is capable of fully saturating the LAN connection, then seeing how balancing the load.

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