“I am getting horrible speeds downstairs in an 1800 square foot house. I was told this router would not have a problem reaching. Why am I having slow speeds with an extender?”
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There could be a number of reasons. Things to look at would be: - where is the router located in your house? Is it at one end, in the center? etc. Try to get it as close to center as possible. - what style house do you have? If you have a ranch, 1800 sq. ft. on the main level is a lot, and that usually means a large basement. A colonial or tri/quad level is more boxy so you won't have as far to reach. Again, try to get the router near the middle. - what is near the router, the extender or your end device? Do you have any other wireless devices nearby such as a printer with wireless, a 2.4 GHz cordless phone, a microwave, or anything else similar that may be emitting interference? - is there anything in between it and where you are having issues? such as structural beams or heating/cooling duct work between the router and the problem area? If so, move the router. - how do you have the antennas oriented? If the router is on a flat surface they should be straight up and down. The usual pattern for these types of antenna is a doughnut shape around the antenna. - you mention an extender in your question. What kind of extender is it? Is it 2.4 GHz only or dual band (2.4 and 5) and what is its max speed for each band? If you use an extender, you will greatly impact the speed at which an end device will communicate as it basically cuts your overall throughput to the router in half for each extender between you and router, in this case probably one quarter the max speed. On average your device connected to the router or the extender connected to the router will get about half the throughput that it says it's connected at. A budget extender will connect at 150 mbps which is shared up and down so about 75 up and 75 down. This doesn't factor in any performance decrease from interference, range, etc. When you connect to the extender you're going to get about half of that available throughput so now you're looking at 30'ish up and 30'ish down, again not factoring any performance decrease from other factors. Placement of the router is key. Place it so your high demand devices have the best chance to connect to it directly and use extenders where needed for low demand devices. I hope that helps.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If your router is setup upstairs, it will affect the signal downstairs because of the way the antennas amplify. If you setup your router downstairs and place your extenders upstairs then you will notice a big difference. Other factors to consider is microwaves, walls and house plants can degrade the signal.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Always check to see if there are devices running 2.4GHz that could be interfering with the signal. I had a wireless headset receiver right next to my router that was bogging my internet down a ton and once I unplugged it, my speeds went way up and never had an issue since.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I have this device setup in a house at the same range and have no issues. Make sure when you are in linksyssmartwifi.com you have the auto-banding (or some name similar to that) turned on so the connected device can move between the 3 bands for it's best connection. Also, I hate to say it, but I have only found an issue when I use my wife's iPad tablet, it not only has issues, but it seems to slow down other connections at the same time. This might be unique to her setup. But after removing the tablet I found my PS4, 2 laptops, smart tv, 3 android devices, and 3 nest cameras all picked up and have no issues. I've heard iPhones and iPads may be culprits but this is not validated on my account, just stating what I observe.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.We'll have to check on this, Josh. Email us at [email protected] the link to this thread and your contact details so we can have this matter taken care of.
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