I live in an 85 year old house with plaster/chickenwire walls. There definitely was no ethernet running through the walls. WiFi reception has always been an issue. Previously we had the fiber buried in conduit through the backyard and then wrapped it around to come in the side of the house because that was the most central location for the WiFi router (5268AC WiFi turned off, Netgear R7800 plugged in for use as WiFi). Two of the TVs (living room above the fireplace and basement) are wireless and the DVR is hardwired in the playroom.
However, I had the low voltage electrician come out two weeks ago and run some Cat6 for me. One line goes up into the second story office, one goes across the house between the joists to the place where the R7800 was previously, and one goes into the next room in the basement. We rerouted the fiber into the basement with the 5268AC where the Cat6 lines terminate.
However, we had a problem with the TV's shutting off because they are IPTV. Every TV has an IP address. We put an unmanaged switch upstairs. The Cat6 line fed the switch, which split out to the wireless access point for the TV (WAP) and the R7800. The problem with that was the wireless access point was not seeing the 5268AC. It thought that the switch was the 5268AC. Therefore, the was an IP address mismatch and the TV would die about 30 seconds after starting.
To fix the situation, the AT&T tech installed a splitter. It's the white box on the right of this messy pic.
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The Cat6 line goes into the splitter, and one end is for the WAP and the other is for the R7800. That way the WAP gets the IP address directly from the 5268AC and the TV works again.
The problem is with the wireless speed on the data line coming out of the splitter. The line running upstairs to the office with no splitter is excellent. I consistently get >900mbps down and up on the hardwired PC up there. But downstairs? WiFi on 5ghz is stuck at ~70mbps down even after a reboot and software update when before the splitter it was ~350mbps down. I even unplugged the R7800 and hardwired a laptop which resulted in consistent 90mbps download speeds.
So what gives? Is the existence of the splitter cutting my speeds down 90%? Is the splitter inherently bad or perhaps it was miswired? Any ideas?
Thanks!
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