- Jan 6, 2002
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Got a TP-Link AX-1500 the other day, it replaced a Segemcom FAST5280 AC from Spectrum, at least I think that's what I had. I already returned it and don't remember the model, but Googling it looks exactly like it. Any ways, I wanted to try and get a bit better reception in the house and have more control over settings. My main PC the wifi signal's a lot better, it stays 90-100%, with the old one it would hover around 30-50%, and would drop connection from time to time and YT videos almost always had to buffer. This PC has a TP-Link RE205 range extender. The speeds are still slow even with the new router, speedtest gives me 10/3. On my new Laptop (Asus Zenbook 13 UM325) I'd get around 90-95/10 on speedtest with the Spectrum router, now I get about half that in both directions. I get 30-50/8 on 5G and 25/6 on 2.4 now. The Spectrum had smart connect I think because there was just 1 SSID. I went thru the router settings and played with settings but nothing's helped. On my desktop the bit of YT I watched there was no buffering, but the speedtest is bothering me. I know this is a cheaper range extender and I plan to get a better one in about a month. But I should be able to get a lot better than 10/3 with this, well the 10 any ways, my uploads always suck lol. I'm confused at why the speedtest was so much higher on my laptop with the old router. I've tried enabling smart connect on the TP-Link and trying it 4 or 5 times throughout the day 50mb/s was the best I could do.
I understand the AX-1500's a budget level Wifi 6 router, but my assumptions were it would be better a good step up from the one Spectrum uses. We've had to return 3 here in about a year because of random dropping of connections and just oddities. I haven't had enough time with the TP to know if it's better there, but I haven't noticed any drops yet. I'm just trying to figure out the speed thing overall, especially why the speed on the extenders so poor. Right now it's reporting 100% signal when I run netsh wlan show interfaces. So I'm lost, I'll get their AX-1500 onemesh extender but that's not for another month or so.
If anyone has any ideas here, I've tried everything I can think of and am just stumped.
I understand the AX-1500's a budget level Wifi 6 router, but my assumptions were it would be better a good step up from the one Spectrum uses. We've had to return 3 here in about a year because of random dropping of connections and just oddities. I haven't had enough time with the TP to know if it's better there, but I haven't noticed any drops yet. I'm just trying to figure out the speed thing overall, especially why the speed on the extenders so poor. Right now it's reporting 100% signal when I run netsh wlan show interfaces. So I'm lost, I'll get their AX-1500 onemesh extender but that's not for another month or so.
If anyone has any ideas here, I've tried everything I can think of and am just stumped.