Poor performance with RE235BE and BE230 router
I'm using the RE235BE with an Archer BE230. I've never gotten the red light on the connection strength LED. Wherever I put the RE, closer to the router, or further away down the hall, I get speed tests of 100Mb down. I tried access point mode, wired to the router, with a device only 6 feet from the RE235BE. In that configuration, I get the expected speed, over than 600 megabits down. It would seem that the main issue may be wireless backhaul. There could also be 2.4/5ghz interference from the downstairs router, which is also configured in AP/bridge mode. Is there something wrong with the RE235BE? Is there anything I can do aside from configuring the extender in AP mode and do the backhaul using a cable? Even without the downstairs router I wasn't getting fast speeed from the extender. I'm not sure these things are more than marketing gimmicks if the wifi backhaul prevents them from working.
Router firmware is 1.0.4 Build 20250519 rel.47087(4341). Extender is 1.0.6 Build 20250401 rel.37513(4341). I reset the extender to factory defaults. I moved the RE235BE to a higher spot almost line of sight and 25 feet from the router. Raised the router's height too. They're each at about 3 feet. The configuration is now Easymesh. I'm doing wifi tests using a desktop with a wifi PCI card -- Archer TXE75E. The following screenshots show the connection speeds from the extender to the router, and from the desktop to the extender. Last screenshot is the internet speed test. The extender and desktop are both connected at greater than 2 gigabits and yet the internet download speed is not even 50% of maximum. The upload speed is at 25%.
Extender's admin screen reporting rx/tx speed with router.
Extender admin screen reporting link speed with desktop wifi card.
WAN speed from desktop.
