Weak Signal on AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router (Archer C7)
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Weak Signal on AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router (Archer C7)
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Hello everyone,
I have purchased a couple of months ago, an AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router on eBay, the item was described as good working condition. But somehow, the signal on this router seems to drop relevantly and not providing enough signal to travel through old built thick walls. Even this router is designed to pick up good signal in specific spaces… especially thick walls when using the external 5Gbps antennas.
But I have located this router to be in a small server room and inside a black cabinet with all the other technical equipment including: Switches, CCTV, Non-Wireless Router (for a different network). Now I have just been thinking if that’s not a good place to put it inside a cabinet with the other technical equipment close together and surrounded by a black metal cabinet chassis. The 5Gbps antennas are all facing towards the outside thick stone wall and not pointing where the direction of the connection that it needs to be.
In some rooms of the building could not get any signal within the middle of the building and cuts off with weak signal. Is it because as I said earlier that the router is all in wrong places or do you think there could be a problem that needs to be look at on the web configuration page. As you might want to know that we have an TP-LINK 300Mbps access point at the other end of the building, providing internet signal to other devices on the same network, having no problems with this so far - but will be upgrading to a EAP110 access point to provide better signals soon, there are thick walls to dealt with!
If any of you want to know the information and links of the router that I am currently using now to support for your solutions when posting on this forum thread. They are all below!
Website link to router’s main page: http://uk.tp-link.com/products/details/cat-9_Archer-C7.html
Firmware Version: 3.15.3 Build 150511 Rel.55816n
Hardware Version: Archer C7 v1 00000000
PS: I know this information sounds a bit wordy for many of you. But if you want me to make some simple points about the problem, please let me know.
Many thanks,
Benjamin Hall
Hardware Version :
Firmware Version :
ISP :
Hello everyone,
I have purchased a couple of months ago, an AC1750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router on eBay, the item was described as good working condition. But somehow, the signal on this router seems to drop relevantly and not providing enough signal to travel through old built thick walls. Even this router is designed to pick up good signal in specific spaces… especially thick walls when using the external 5Gbps antennas.
But I have located this router to be in a small server room and inside a black cabinet with all the other technical equipment including: Switches, CCTV, Non-Wireless Router (for a different network). Now I have just been thinking if that’s not a good place to put it inside a cabinet with the other technical equipment close together and surrounded by a black metal cabinet chassis. The 5Gbps antennas are all facing towards the outside thick stone wall and not pointing where the direction of the connection that it needs to be.
In some rooms of the building could not get any signal within the middle of the building and cuts off with weak signal. Is it because as I said earlier that the router is all in wrong places or do you think there could be a problem that needs to be look at on the web configuration page. As you might want to know that we have an TP-LINK 300Mbps access point at the other end of the building, providing internet signal to other devices on the same network, having no problems with this so far - but will be upgrading to a EAP110 access point to provide better signals soon, there are thick walls to dealt with!
If any of you want to know the information and links of the router that I am currently using now to support for your solutions when posting on this forum thread. They are all below!
Website link to router’s main page: http://uk.tp-link.com/products/details/cat-9_Archer-C7.html
Firmware Version: 3.15.3 Build 150511 Rel.55816n
Hardware Version: Archer C7 v1 00000000
PS: I know this information sounds a bit wordy for many of you. But if you want me to make some simple points about the problem, please let me know.
Many thanks,
Benjamin Hall