I bought a Netgear EX7000 wireless AC extender, which I want to hook up with my Asus RT-AC3200, but I have a couple of questions first.
The EX7000 has a couple of different options to connect it to my primary router. I can either hardwire it to my RT-AC3200 and set it up as an AP, assign it's own SSID for the 2.4 Ghz & 5 Ghz bands or I can set it up as an extender and connect to my RT-AC3200 via the wireless connection. When setting it up as an extender, it gives me an option to extend both the 2.4 & 5Ghz bands or use the 5Ghz band to connect to the RT-AC3200 and clients could then connect to the 2.4Ghz band, or just the opposite (2.4Ghz to the primary router & clients connect to the 5Ghz band). Supposedly, this prevents the speed of the extender being cut in half when extending the signal wirelessly.
Can someone tell me the best way to hook this up so my wireless network is extended and the clients connected get the fastest connection possible and are able to communicate with the clients connected to the primary router?
I've had this extender for a month or so, and I've tried connecting it multiple ways but after a while it always ends up slowing down my entire network, clients drop off the network, or clients connected to the extender can't reach the WAN anymore. When I setup this EX7000, depending on how I set it up, am I supposed to go into the settings on my RT-AC3200 under Wireless/WDS and enter the MAC address of the extender and/or go into the settings on the RT-AC3200 under LAN/Route and enter the IP address of the extender/AP? Under LAN/Route it says to use this if connecting multiple routers behind my RT-AC3200 to share the same connection to the Internet, so I was wondering if it would apply here, and under Wireless/WDS it says to enter the MAC address of the AP (if using the wireless connection) and the do the same on the AP by adding the MAC addresses from each band on the RT-AC3200. Only thing is, I use WPA2 security, which it says it doesn't support.
I must be doing something wrong when connecting it because it works fine for a little while, but then I start having problems so I then unplug it. Also, when setting up the AP/Extender, I've been using the same SSID so someone connected to the wireless network doesn't have to keep switching networks if they move somewhere else in the house. When I use the same SSID on both, I'll setup the roaming assistant to disconnect from the primary router when the signal gets low so the client will automatically drop that connection and connect to the AP/Extender.
Can someone please give me some advice on the best way to setup this AP/Extender, if I need to change anything in the settings of my primary router when doing this, or if there's something else that needs to be done that I'm not doing? I really need to use this to get a wireless signal on the other side of the house, but like I mentioned, it only works for a few days and then I need to turn it off. Thanks!
The EX7000 has a couple of different options to connect it to my primary router. I can either hardwire it to my RT-AC3200 and set it up as an AP, assign it's own SSID for the 2.4 Ghz & 5 Ghz bands or I can set it up as an extender and connect to my RT-AC3200 via the wireless connection. When setting it up as an extender, it gives me an option to extend both the 2.4 & 5Ghz bands or use the 5Ghz band to connect to the RT-AC3200 and clients could then connect to the 2.4Ghz band, or just the opposite (2.4Ghz to the primary router & clients connect to the 5Ghz band). Supposedly, this prevents the speed of the extender being cut in half when extending the signal wirelessly.
Can someone tell me the best way to hook this up so my wireless network is extended and the clients connected get the fastest connection possible and are able to communicate with the clients connected to the primary router?
I've had this extender for a month or so, and I've tried connecting it multiple ways but after a while it always ends up slowing down my entire network, clients drop off the network, or clients connected to the extender can't reach the WAN anymore. When I setup this EX7000, depending on how I set it up, am I supposed to go into the settings on my RT-AC3200 under Wireless/WDS and enter the MAC address of the extender and/or go into the settings on the RT-AC3200 under LAN/Route and enter the IP address of the extender/AP? Under LAN/Route it says to use this if connecting multiple routers behind my RT-AC3200 to share the same connection to the Internet, so I was wondering if it would apply here, and under Wireless/WDS it says to enter the MAC address of the AP (if using the wireless connection) and the do the same on the AP by adding the MAC addresses from each band on the RT-AC3200. Only thing is, I use WPA2 security, which it says it doesn't support.
I must be doing something wrong when connecting it because it works fine for a little while, but then I start having problems so I then unplug it. Also, when setting up the AP/Extender, I've been using the same SSID so someone connected to the wireless network doesn't have to keep switching networks if they move somewhere else in the house. When I use the same SSID on both, I'll setup the roaming assistant to disconnect from the primary router when the signal gets low so the client will automatically drop that connection and connect to the AP/Extender.
Can someone please give me some advice on the best way to setup this AP/Extender, if I need to change anything in the settings of my primary router when doing this, or if there's something else that needs to be done that I'm not doing? I really need to use this to get a wireless signal on the other side of the house, but like I mentioned, it only works for a few days and then I need to turn it off. Thanks!
