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Lan using airport (extreme and express) really slow

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aleza84

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Jan 24, 2014
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Guys I need some help debugging my network, my home LAN.

I am using an airport extreme and airport extreme as a repeater/extender.
Clients connected to my lan: iphone 4s, ipad mini, occasional laptops (mac, windows, linux) all connected wireless and a linux home server connected by rj45 running file server, time capsule, nothing extreme.

My network speed inside my lan is really slow, REALLY slow. File transfers are slow, connecting between computer are really slow. Distance between airports are 5meters distance, what info can I gather to find where is the bottleneck??
 
aleza84 said:
Guys I need some help debugging my network, my home LAN.

I am using an airport extreme and airport extreme as a repeater/extender.
Clients connected to my lan: iphone 4s, ipad mini, occasional laptops (mac, windows, linux) all connected wireless and a linux home server connected by rj45 running file server, time capsule, nothing extreme.

My network speed inside my lan is really slow, REALLY slow. File transfers are slow, connecting between computer are really slow. Distance between airports are 5meters distance, what info can I gather to find where is the bottleneck??
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Interference would cause this. Try resetting both base stations and trying again. If they are only 15 m apart, why not just run Ethernet?
 
Altemose said:
Interference would cause this. Try resetting both base stations and trying again. If they are only 15 m apart, why not just run Ethernet?
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Beacuse extreme is connecter to high speed modem and I cant move it, and needed more signal at the other side of the house and cant run a cable there.

I rebooted them, many times. The problem is the lan speed, a file transfer takes ages.
 
aleza84 said:
Beacuse extreme is connecter to high speed modem and I cant move it, and needed more signal at the other side of the house and cant run a cable there.

I rebooted them, many times. The problem is the lan speed, a file transfer takes ages.
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Try resetting as in putting a paper clip in the reset hole and plugging the base station in and holding until the light flashes rapidly.
 
Have you tried power line ethernet.
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...vptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_4jnygokjeu_b

When you use WIFI to extend you wireless network you effectively cut your speed in half.

If you can run via power line ethernet to your AE and "create a wireless network" you will have greater range and higher throughput.

To debug you can use the following:
- hold Option key while clicking on the WIFI icon shows you a lot of data - make sure the AE's are on different channels
- WIFI Scanner http://wifiscanner.com/wifiscanner.html Software to debugg your WIFI Network. Make sure you are using WIFI channels which are least crowded.
 
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