Trying to expand my network

[thelodge2025]

I am trying to get better internet coverage in my newly converted garage and am currently on EE wifi 7 at 1 GBPS in the house. I ran a cable from the back of the main router in my house to the garage and plugged it into the wifi 7 booster yet it only gives me 70 MBPS. How do I get my full internet speed in the garage with a cable coming from the main router? Do i need to add a router and change the configuration to act as a AP switch only? 

[Mustrum]

@thelodge2025   what spec was the cable? And what is the legnth of the cable?.

It sounds like it was not a good enough spec and is limiting your speeds, were it me I would be using a minimum of cat 6/7, but 8  would be better. 

[thelodge2025]

Thank you for the reply. It is a cat 6 cable between the main router and the garage. Distance is about 30 meters.

[JimM11]

@thelodge2025 If you have a laptop with an ethernet port, plug it into the cable in the garage, see if the laptop syncs at 1000/1000 in the properties for the Ethernet port, at 70Mb/s sounds like the cable has a bad connection and you are down at the 100Mb/s range. One bad connection kills the NIC.

Also reported that the Wi-Fi Pro and smart wireless, are very picky about cabling, may be down to the fact that they are 2.5Gb/s ports. Do not use so cannot say for sure.

[Mustrum]

@thelodge2025    Ah OK, thats my theory out the window! Unless it is a faulty cable or connection.

Is there a way you could plug something else with a 2.5Gb Network card on the end of the cable to help test it.

Also do you get the same with a shorter cable on the extender?

[JimM11]

@Mustrum Bob pullen posted up the other day regarding some testing on the Pro Smart wireless ports, producing crap signal throughput but was way better up in the 600mb/s speed if i remember, 

[Mustrum]

@thelodge2025   Just to avoid confusion, are you on a 900Mbps or 1.6Gb package?

I was thinking or looking at link speeds, but speed tests are also helpful, so let us know which you are showing.

[thelodge2025]

Thanks. I will need to try that and see if it connects correctly without the booster and straight into the laptop ethernet. What about adding a router on the end and making it effectively a switch, is that viable if the cable is a good cable and works fine?

[thelodge2025]

The extenders are not very workable. I have two, one in the garage right now (where my cat 6 is plugged into giving me 70 MBPS) and one in the kitchen in the house, whereas the main router is at the front door of the house. When I added the extender in the kitchen and just had it powered on, no other cables attached, it then only gave my entire house 70 MBPS, when I removed it completely, the speed went back to normal at 500 MBPS plus....??? My first time with these wifi 7 extenders...do not seem to work very well.

[Mustrum]

@thelodge2025   Probably best not to ask too many more questions at this point, and let you get the cable tested.

After that, what is it you need connecting in the garage?

Rather than a router, a simple switch might be a simpler option.

And for now, if you are getting 600Mbps without the extenders, why on earth use them??