@NobbyH To follow up on my plea for advice. We live in a small bungalow with 5 downstairs room and 2 upstairs. A week ago we had "fibre-to-the-house" installed, and with the supplied InkSys wireless router we get over 950 Mbps download speed in any downstairs room; upstairs it's barely 10 Mbps or even no connection. We bought a TPLINK RE220 Dual-band extender, and followed all the rather poor instruction leaflet processes. It insists on adding its own wireless address ( using the suffix _EXT for a normal WiFi address- not what we wanted! ) it effectively cuts out our normal WiFi address. Is this our it's supposed to work? That is not an extension of signal, it is a replace of signal!

Have I misunderstood what extenders are capable of doing?  Cheers NobbH

  @NobbyH 

Hi,

If you want the wireless networks of the RE220 to have the same name(s) as the wireless networks of the InkSys wireless router, then log into the RE220 (either via the webGUI or the "Tether" app) and edit the names of the "Extended Network(s)" to be whatever you'd like them to be. (i.e. remove the "_EXT")

The webGUI even has "COPY HOST SSID" buttons that you can click to set the network names of the RE220 identical to the router's. Don't forget to click the "SAVE" button afterwards.

WebGUI

Tether app

  @NobbyH Hi Woozle, Thanks for the explanation, I am now able to get reasonable access to my fibre broadband in the upstairs rooms, albeit it is 1/10 of the downstairs speed. I have also edited away the irritating suffix "_EXT" ;This should be mentioned in the TPLink leaflet

cheers NobbyH

  @NobbyH 

Indeed, extending a wireless network wirelessly is quite inefficient. (that's a limitation of the technology itself)

And the RE220 is one of the lowest-priced dual-band extenders on offer.

The above two things combined won't result in high download and upload speeds.