Roaming Network Xfinity to Airport Extreme
Hi, folks...
I am behind the times and I've got a 5th Gen (? I believe, the short square one) Airport Extreme that still works fine, and I'm trying to use it to extend my network into a roaming configuration.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS/Equipment:
I have a brand new Technicolor Xfinity modem/router, but the telephone poles on my house are in the BACK of the house and the modem has been set up in the back room for years. I have an older, long house with the living room in the front, so it's been a challenge to get good signal to the front.
So, couple years ago, I bought a 100' ethernet cable and fed it through the house all the way to front and placed the Airport Extreme in the rafters of my basement, right up against the basement ceiling. The Extreme is literally 10 feet away (albeit through the floor) when I'm sitting on the couch. Yet I still seem to be struggling. I would guesstimate that my house is about 75' long, and the distance between the Xfinity router and the living room couch is probably about 60'. There are a number of walls and rooms in between. Can't help that without tearing down the house LOL. That's why I set up the APX to roam.
SETTINGS:
As far as I can tell, all the settings seem to be correct and I get green lights across the board on my Airport Utility. Devices do come up in the clients list when I click on the Extreme, which must mean that things are connecting. I am connected using DHCP, Creating a wireless network that is identical to that generated by the Xfinity router, and the APX is in bridge mode. So I'm at a loss why we still seem to have spotty issues throughout the house, especially in the front.
XS MAX the issue?
The only thing is that the most spotty offender appears to be my iPhone XS Max. I have read that it has some issues with WiFi, which is upsetting for such an expensive phone. But then again, it is not just the phone... I seem to have issues here and there with other devices as well.
Final question is: Are there any setting I am missing? Something on the Xfinity router perhaps? My only other option is to put the Xfinity router into bridge mode and use the Extreme as the main router, then attach an Express or another Extreme to the network. But I will not get full functionality of the Xfinity router, which actually seems pretty powerful and has some cool new security features that I don't want to lose.
What do the experts say?
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