Office is on three floors, broadband comes straight at ground floor via ADSL router and feeds about 7 desktops (not all of the working at the same time). Laptops and tablets in the basement and first floor. Without a wireless extender the wifi is just good enough to reach the basement but not the first floor.
So we got a second device that can work either as a second access point (wired) or as a wireless extender. I wanted to put it upstairs but the ladies rule the place and they want it downstairs (next to coffee and biscuits, you know).
If I configure the thingy as a traditional wireless extender, it improves wifi downstairs as expected but no wi-fi upstairs.
If I set it up as a second access point, strangely enough it doesn't improve wifi downstairs but I have good wifi signal upstairs. And that would be ok, if it wasn't that with this configuration we have massive packet loss on the desktops. The router is literally a few metres away but we have about 70-80% packet loss, which goes away if we just unplug the AP.
I can't see why this should happen, apart from some form of electrical interferences. But why are they not there when used as wifi extender?
So we got a second device that can work either as a second access point (wired) or as a wireless extender. I wanted to put it upstairs but the ladies rule the place and they want it downstairs (next to coffee and biscuits, you know).
If I configure the thingy as a traditional wireless extender, it improves wifi downstairs as expected but no wi-fi upstairs.
If I set it up as a second access point, strangely enough it doesn't improve wifi downstairs but I have good wifi signal upstairs. And that would be ok, if it wasn't that with this configuration we have massive packet loss on the desktops. The router is literally a few metres away but we have about 70-80% packet loss, which goes away if we just unplug the AP.
I can't see why this should happen, apart from some form of electrical interferences. But why are they not there when used as wifi extender?
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