@Tony Sorry for the long delay in responding. Honestly, I was reluctant to let the extender, which will be stuck down in a utility room without battery backup, be the DHCP server for the network.. In...

@Tony That certainly made things better - I am no longer getting the bad host addresses, but I am still experience regular pauses in my SSH sessions between hosts. This time I monitored the system...

@Tony As suggested, I plugged the RE220 directly into the main router and observed exactly the same behavior. As perviously, my ssh sessions would freeze up for several seconds even between two hosts...

@Tony I will give that I try tomorrow and report back. (All the ports on my router are in use, so it will take a little bit of swapping things around).

PS The N300 is the TL-WR802N travel router

I am having issues when trying to use an RE220 as a Wifi Access Point. I bought the RE220 to replace an N300 which I have been using as WAP to provide WiFi to a number of embedded devices in the...