Airport Extreme that I was using as an extender now refuses to work as a main router.
Recently I changed to Fibre Broadband in Singapore. Because the connection for Fibre was located near the front door wifi was very very weak in my rooms. This is what I did.
1. Connected my Airport Express (2nd Gen) to my "nucleus connect" Fibre modem by Ethernet.
2. Use my Airport Extreme (4th Gen) as extender by connecting wirelessly.
The speed that I was getting 30 Mbps. I should be receiving about 70 - 100 Mbps.
I decided to switch things around by using my Airport Extreme as the Main Router followed by using Airport Express as Extender. I did the reset, even set it to factory defaults and hard resetting. But am totally unable to connect my Airport Extreme to my Fibre Modem. It keeps flashing amber after trying to set it up. Router is unable to get an IP Address.
Now I have gone back to my original configuration. Airport extreme in this case as no issues working as an extender but somehow is not able to work as the main router anymore.
Please help.
Thank you.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to hit 100Mbps.
To get speed up you need ethernet..
Could not connect to Airport Extreme by Ethernet as my wife insisted she did not want wires dangling around the living room.
Ethernet should be properly installed in the walls.
You will simply not get better speed without using ethernet.. as the one and only reliable method of connection..
You may get improvement using AC wireless bridge equipment.. that actually will cost you more than doing it in ethernet.. with poorer results..
AC wireless bridging is highly subject to conditions in the house.. while it looks great on paper it can work really poorly in practice.
You might also do better than 50Mbps using homeplug adapters.. they are like wireless however.. promising much and delivering so much less.. however the latest batch of 500mbps devices in perfect conditions might get better than 50Mbps throughput.
Not sure of technical term, sort of wired bridge
It is actually a wireless bridge. Wireless to ethernet bridge is perhaps the best and clearest term.
Did you test the extreme whilst running 7.6.1 with the express.. my experience is that 7.6.4 is definitely slower and I can show it repeatedly when I flash it up or downgrade back again .. I get worse then better results.
Forcing the link to 5ghz can work but the express are not so great.. I think you would do better with a pair of extreme.. buy a second gen4 or gen5..
But I think you have done really well with the equipment you have..
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