There are a few better options if you have range issues in your home: The wifi extender is likely to be much less powerful in terms of processing speed than your 'real' router.This means you're starting with only 1/2 of the bandwidth. The wifi extender has to split its bandwidth between interacting with the router and interacting with the clients.That being said, Wifi extenders will always be slower than the actual router.

Even if your range extender is new, the firmware could be outdated and they may have made significant improvements. Interference can really slow down the transfer rates. Especially make sure that they are not the same as your router.

Check the channels as mentioned in the Interference section.

I'm not sure that range extender can actually go any faster, but the two things I'd try first from that support page are: Hope this helps even though some time has passed.īelkin has a decent support page about this: By keeping the repeater a shorter hop from the router, and then your device a shorter hop from the repeater, you keep the signal stronger along the whole path, rather than having a weaker/exponentially slower signal between the router the device. Why? Because the speed of the transfer drops in an exponential manner the further the repeater and router get away from each other.

When you connect your device from the lounge, you should get a better transfer speed. What you could do to improve this situation is put the repeater halfway between the lounge and the bedroom. You say you are getting a 36mbps speed in the bedroom, where the router is, and only getting a 5mbps speed in the lounge, where the repeater is.Īssuming that there is no interference from other devices, and there is a relatively clear path between the router and the repeater: Some time has passed since the initial question was asked, but I'm not thrilled with the answers here.

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