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Yeetmeister
Feb 11, 2020Aspirant
Problems with wifi extender EX2700 after power outage
I bought an EX2700 a few weeks ago as an ethernet alternative and its been working amazingly giving me 30-40mbps download and 10-15 upload. We had a sudden 8 hour power outage on sunday and now it si...
Yeetmeister
Feb 11, 2020Aspirant
I think I understand, from a wireless connection I got around the same (before cut) down/up (just a bit less) as I mainly got the extender for download speeds. But I did get from 20-35down wireless and around 8up
plemans
Feb 11, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Yeetmeister wrote:
I think I understand, from a wireless connection I got around the same (before cut) down/up (just a bit less) as I mainly got the extender for download speeds. But I did get from 20-35down wireless and around 8up
On what? The router? The extender?
did you try logging into the router to test different channels? I'd recommend 1-6-11.
- YeetmeisterFeb 11, 2020AspirantI got those down/ups on the router without the extender and the extender just boosted them to 30-40down and around 10up
- plemansFeb 11, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Yeetmeister wrote:
I got those down/ups on the router without the extender and the extender just boosted them to 30-40down and around 10upSo you're back to full speeds???
Or what speeds are you getting now directly from the router?
- YeetmeisterFeb 11, 2020AspirantI may have explained it badly but I’m talking about what it was before the outage; now with the extender It usually fluctuates from 0-15down but then will go to 40 and back down and it will go to around 5up but will go to 12 showing that it’s possibly capable of going back to peak but there is perhaps a hinderance