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Hi Guys hope all is well?

Currently at home I've had a nightmare with my home network and wireless range!

I have an ASUS RT66U AC router with BT infinity fibre broadband. My router is place in office which has AC laptop (Apple MacBook) and other AC devices.

In the office I have LAN connection for Xbox, Amazon Fire TV, Gaming Rig and home AV Amp.

The router is at one side of the house which means other devices like home laptop and phones are finding it difficult to connect to internet.

I purchased two WIFI extenders and have them place at other side of home however they don't seem to have internet connection? But are connected to the router and have good signal.

I have also noticed that it takes a while for Apple MacBook to connect to WIFI?

I would like to keep Router in office to make use of LAN connection for Xbox and Gaming rig.

I was just wondering how would I increase WIFI to rest of house? Is there any setting within router?

Any help would be thankful!!!
 
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You pretty much try different things until it works best for you. There is no way to predict. If you have few other people around using 80mhz give the most speed. This 80mhz is why 802.11ac can not run on the 2.4g band since there is only 60mhz total.
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Wife extenders: what make and model(s) are they?

What configuration settings have you set up with respect to the router and the two wifi extenders?

E.g., private IP addresses and subnet masking. The IP addresses for all devices must be set up correctly to avoid duplicate IPs.

Only one device (the router) should be issuing (DHCP) IP addresses. Very easy to overlook or otherwise make some error in the configuration process.

Sketch out a simple diagram of your network and devices. Note all of the IP addresses being used either static or dynamic. Make sure that the IP addresses are all as you expect them to be.
 
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There is little you can do to increase the coverage of the radio signal. Almost all routers transmit at the legal maximum power. In recent years though interference from neighbors cuts the usable range of routers more than anything else.

You are not properly using your repeaters. If your pc gets poor signal in the other side of the house a repeater placed in the same location will also get this poor signal. It is not some magic box that can improve the signals it receives. A repeater just because of how they work will take the signals an retransmit it making it worse even when it has a very good input signal. When it already has a poor signal it will make it even worse. It might be stronger signal but the contents of the signal will be greatly degraded.

This is the key difference between signal strength and signal quality...which is also why interference from neighbors is such a problem.

To use a repeater effectively you need to place it more or less 1/2 between the router and the location you are getting poor signal in. Running 2 is going to cause you even more issue.

I would recommend you use the "extenders" in AP mode. Best if you could run ethernet to them but you could use powerline networks to provide the connection back to the router and just use these devices to provide wireless in the remote part of the house.
 
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The extenders are TP-LINK N300 Universal WiFi Range Extender.

They connected to router via WPS? They both have Ethernet ports which can be used to connect devices to?

Could I use a power line adapter with one of the extenders? Or does these adapter only work one way?

I have an old Belkin Wireless N router lying around somewhere would this be better than two extenders?

Cheers guys!

Currently network setup is as follows

Open reach modem - connected to router via cat6 cable - ASUS RT66U router - with two TP-LINK N300 Universal WiFi Range Extender

Should I maybe try one instead of two?

 
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A pair of powerline adapters appear to your equipment as a ethernet cable.

Not sure your belkin would do much of anything it is only a router. You could use it as a AP but you already have your tplink devices.

The simpler your network the easier it will be to troubleshoot and likely perform. Although you can not connect a repeater to another repeater running 2 they will interfere with each other.
 
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Cheers!

I will remove one of the wireless adapters! And use the power line adapters!

There will only be one extender within network in middle of house!

Is there any settings you could recommend for 5g AC wireless? All devices are around 6 feet from router?

Cheers again
 
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bill001g

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In most cases you can leave it on the default settings and see how well it performs. Most routers attempt to avoid interference.

802.11ac is a bandwidth pig. It uses 4 blocks of 20mhz radio. There are only 2 of these blocks in most countries so your change of interference is very high if you have a lot of neighbors. Still you have little choice, if you change it to use 20mhz block you have converted your 802.11ac router into a 802.11n router.

 
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You pretty much try different things until it works best for you. There is no way to predict. If you have few other people around using 80mhz give the most speed. This 80mhz is why 802.11ac can not run on the 2.4g band since there is only 60mhz total.
 
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