installed AMPLIFI but speed dropped ALOT

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drakon3rd

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Hi, so I have a gigabit network and bought this mesh system. System is great but it cant seem get seems get a good speed from it. In the same room able ranging from 100 mbps to 200 mbps which is good but soon as im out of the its drops to 30-60 mbps. I tried hardwire connect with mesh system and was able to 700+ mbps.
any advice on how i can improve it? would more AMPLIFI?
 
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Mesh does not solve the fundamental issue with wireless and that is interference from neighbors using wifi and other devices that use the same radio frequencies. Mesh is not some magic solution to wifi problems if it was large corporations would have installed it long ago and they all pretty much use the standard AP connected via ethernet solution yet.

It is really hard to say because you have now added extra radio hops into the path. Each of these is now subject to interference in addition to the overhead of having to transmit and receive radio signals multiple times.

Even when you look at using a single radio with a single client you are lucky to get the 100-200m numbers even with the most advanced equipment. The farther you...
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bill001g

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Mesh does not solve the fundamental issue with wireless and that is interference from neighbors using wifi and other devices that use the same radio frequencies. Mesh is not some magic solution to wifi problems if it was large corporations would have installed it long ago and they all pretty much use the standard AP connected via ethernet solution yet.

It is really hard to say because you have now added extra radio hops into the path. Each of these is now subject to interference in addition to the overhead of having to transmit and receive radio signals multiple times.

Even when you look at using a single radio with a single client you are lucky to get the 100-200m numbers even with the most advanced equipment. The farther you move away the lower speeds you get. There is no magic solution to this problem. Using any form of repeater requires that the unit be able to receive good signal and then resend it. If it gets poor signal it will only run as fast as that signal allows and likely degrade it somewhat more with the second wifi signal it generates. It really doesn't matter if your end device has strong signal level to the second unit it still must pass back to the other device using the original signals.

When you use systems like this you are trading performance for coverage and ease of installation.

The only way to really get good coverage is to have ethernet run to the remote rooms and then use AP to generate the signals.
 
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