you have to make sure the devices your bridging with actually can service a signal

and not have the same problem your laptops are having

i might need to give some more context

in the past we had 30 down and 5 up, and i used an n600 and n300, the n300 in repeater mode to blanket the upstairs

maybe but i don't think so

everyone always got 30

now i've switched to 200 down 10 up

n600 --- buffalo AP?

no, asus n600

oh

shitty consumer grade stuff

yeah you know you can do better with off-lease enterprise stuff

anyway

off topic

so it was good and it's bad now

basically just wanted to make sure an extender wouldn't fuck my shit up

well

thing is

even though the only thing that changed was your WAN uplink?

no

router changed too

so

fuck im so bad at explaining

use your old router in bridging mode in the same spot

maybe I'm retarded who knows

that's actually what i'm doing

and it's not working

wew

so i think i need to get an ac1200 extender afaik

that makes no sense though

just wanted to sanity check and you seem as stumped as i am so i think it's worth a shot

if it works before it should work now. the extender makes no sense.

it's almost never a good idea.

i might be maxing out the old router

is what i'm worried about

no way.

because if the theoretical limit is 80 let's say

if i had 30 before i would have no way to know that 80 was the limit

didn't you say you get "great speeds" with your phone

doesn't that kill that theory right there

yes but the phone is connected to the downstairs router