I'm looking at buying a wifi extender in the future. Having looked around the internet for recommendations I noticed that some people complain about not getting good speeds on certain wifi setups.
I was wondering if this as anything to do with the data link protocals, as on one page I looked at the different protocals have different transfer rates. So if the wifi is stuck on a lower protocal for whatever reason, is there a way to manually change the protocal?
Just as an example of what I mean, this is the wifi extender I'm looking at;
https://www.ebuyer.com/860753-netgear-orbi-outdoor-wifi-mesh-extender-add-on-satellite-rbs50y-200eusThe protocals it uses are: IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11ac
If I look at the intel page for information of the transfer rates I can see the rates very dramatically especially between 802.11b to 802.11ac
https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/support/articles/000005725/wireless/legacy-intel-wireless-products.htmlSo other that forcing the wifi extender to re-establish a link, are there any manual commands a person can type in to force it to link to a higher protocal if getting slow speeds?
This is more an academic question for me as I have most of the house cabled up. But I wondered if the wifi protocal sync is what causes some people to have slower than expected wifi transfer rates, and if there was anything they could manually do.