Works ok but not great

I bought a refurbished item and I'm assuming it works ok. But the performance is a little lacking and communicating with the extender isn't flexible. In terms of performance, I'm standing next to the extender and I'm getting 48% uplink speed at 2.4Ghz and 96% at 5Ghz. I bought this mainly for 2.4Ghz use. The signal strength is much lower, 58% at 2.4Ghz and 30% at 5Ghz. Initial Android setup was easy but it doesn't have the option to rename or hide the SSID. If the SSID name is the same as the source SSID, it adds EXT to the name, which I don't like. I'd prefer the name the same as the source SSID so it is as close to mesh extenders as possible. If I'm using my phone, I simply disconnect and reconnect. It picks the SSID (source or extender) with the stronger signal. If the names are different, I have to consciously pick the SSID with the best signal. In order to fix those issues, I have to use a desktop browser via Ethernet. The only way to communicate to the extender wirelessly from the desktop browser is to press the reset button on the extender. But this erases the prior settings. Overall it seems to do the job for IOT devices. Performance is not a major concern. If you're looking for streaming performance I'm not sure this is the one.

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