[RKDinOKC]

Have a cable modem connected to a hub. The hub has a wired connection to another hub to two computers in another room. It is also wired to a wireless router for my home wifi. The wireless router has 3 wired connections, AppleTV, smart TV, and desktop computer as media server with TV as monitor. The wifi network has the smart TV, a color laser printer, My laptop, an iPhone, an iPad and a 2nd network interface on one of the wired computers.

Had 25mb/5mb connection to internet with my cable modem. Using speedtest.net got 20mb/5mb everywhere on all devices, even testing 2 at the same time.

Found some movies on youtube with my laptop I wanted to watch on the TV so just used Airplay to send my laptop screen and sound to the AppleTV with the TV as the output device for the AppleTV. It didn't work very well unless I moved the laptop to the same room as the wireless router to get full signal strength. Upgraded my wireless router to one of the newer dual bands and it worked fine with the same speeds everywhere using speedtest.net

Upgraded my Internet connection to 50mb/10mb. My iPhone speedtested 50/10 no matter where I was in the house. Laptop and hard wired servers only speedtested at 20/10.

Double checked the wire going between the two hubs and it had a hole in the wire from where a tree fell through the roof and was only supporting 10mb instead of gigabit. Pulled a new wire and the wired computers started getting 50/10.

The laptop in the same room as the wireless router would get 50/10. But on the desk I used it it only got 20/10. Put my old wireless router and set it up on the desk where I typically used the laptop. Set it up to extend an existing wireless network. Now the laptop speedtests at 50/10. I was surprised. Thought I would have to setup the second wireless router by having it wired and putting it in bridged mode. Glad I didn't as I found the Airport Express only supports 100mb ethernet instead of Gigabit.



If you just need to extend your home wireless network you can use another wireless router in extend and existing wireless network mode. I have all Apple wireless routers, ie Airport Extreme and Airport Express right now. Only assume this can be done with other wireless routers.