this is kind of difficult to explain, but here goes: i rent an apartment in my Landlords Basement, and i connect to his Wifi as part of our Lease contract, but before out of goodwill, he had a TP cable poking out of the roof for me to connect my Wireless router to. but after my Landlord had som remodeling done to his office, he had to cut the cord. he says that this is not a problem, as he put in a Airport express extender in the living room that should cover my apartment (Same SSID on both airport extreme and airport express) which it partially does. my issue is, that my Xbox does not want to connect to it(works fine with hotspot on my iphone and at a friends house) the wifi signal is bad where i have my gaming rig (small hallway) and i am not able to stream from my pc to plex on anything higher than 720 kbps.
After doing some snooping, i found that Mr landlord has 13 devices connected to wifi, wireless speakers on the 2.4ghz spectrum, and we live next to a huge appartment building where theres atleast a dozen ssid`s broadcasting on the same channel as he does. i talked to him about trying to change channels etc, but he says "he had proffessionals set up this network, and dont trust me to not mess it up"
what i have tried to do to work around the streaming problem and low signal strength is to connect my ASUS RT-AC66U AC1750 GIGABIT ROUTER as and extender to the SSID using the pre shared key and using the Wizard on the router, but this causes huge issues, and the entire network goes down (so much for me not messing up the network ey?) i believe this is caused by my router connecting to the extender in his living room, and not the airport extreme in his office.. from what i can read on apple faq: If another extended Wi-Fi base station ➋ is placed between the primary Wi-Fi base station ➊ and the extended Wi-Fi base station ➌, the extended Wi-Fi base station ➌ will not allow clients to join it. All extended Wi-Fi base stations must be in direct range of the primary Wi-Fi base station
this brings me to my final question: is there some way to configure my asus to conect only to the airport extreme without having to change ssid, channels or do any configuration on his devices?
TLDR: can i force my Asus router to connect to a specific accesspoint, when extender and accesspoint share the same ssid?
Crappy topology drawing where the blue arrow is what im trying to do :http://i.imgur.com/hV1o6Ga.jpg?1
sorry for the wall of text :)
Submitted by zer0en | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016
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