hello everyone! very inexperienced newbie here
so i have an rt 5300 with the latest Merlin firmware update, recently i just upgraded to 1gbs speed in my household due to lots of clients (about 30) and internet speed getting slow. after that upgrade, i noticed the speeds around the house has stayed the same, wifi reception has gotten worse as well so i decided to finally setup a "mesh system" So I purchased some wifi extenders. I purchased 2 netgear ex7700 (x6 triband) and connected them via cat6 ethernet, set them up in ap mode and placed them in those areas with poor wifi reception(front of the house and in the backyard for the pool area). Now the wifi connection is great but i am still getting slow speeds they range between 40-300 mbps according to the speed test on different clients and different spots in my house. my modem to the rt5300 is also connected via cat6 cable as well.
I've tried doing a full factory reset with the 15 min waits and reboots and that entire list of things I've found on the forum. i have smart connect disabled on the rt 5300, but enabled on both ex7700, running one ssid for every band, wps disabled, my modem is in bridge mode. is there something i can try to fix this? Or is there some setting i have to change to make this work better?
i don't even know if those netgear wifi extenders work well with the router i currently have. should i just scrap everything and upgrade to the netgear orbi 6? i hear its a simple setup and works very well but its a bit expensive or is there a way to make this setup work well with the fast internet speed I'm paying for. any advice would help
so i have an rt 5300 with the latest Merlin firmware update, recently i just upgraded to 1gbs speed in my household due to lots of clients (about 30) and internet speed getting slow. after that upgrade, i noticed the speeds around the house has stayed the same, wifi reception has gotten worse as well so i decided to finally setup a "mesh system" So I purchased some wifi extenders. I purchased 2 netgear ex7700 (x6 triband) and connected them via cat6 ethernet, set them up in ap mode and placed them in those areas with poor wifi reception(front of the house and in the backyard for the pool area). Now the wifi connection is great but i am still getting slow speeds they range between 40-300 mbps according to the speed test on different clients and different spots in my house. my modem to the rt5300 is also connected via cat6 cable as well.
I've tried doing a full factory reset with the 15 min waits and reboots and that entire list of things I've found on the forum. i have smart connect disabled on the rt 5300, but enabled on both ex7700, running one ssid for every band, wps disabled, my modem is in bridge mode. is there something i can try to fix this? Or is there some setting i have to change to make this work better?
i don't even know if those netgear wifi extenders work well with the router i currently have. should i just scrap everything and upgrade to the netgear orbi 6? i hear its a simple setup and works very well but its a bit expensive or is there a way to make this setup work well with the fast internet speed I'm paying for. any advice would help