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Well the point is to have reliable Wi-Fi for mobile devices and the laptop, we have a pet in the room and another cable they can chew on/get tangled in isn't really too great. I've been able to isolate that the problem is now only on the Wi-Fi, both on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz band, as a cable connected from the secondary to the laptop gives perfect internet without any lag. The laptop's Wi-Fi module is fine as no lag ever appears on other routers, just this one. I've set the best possible channel I could find on the 2.4GHz band, the 5GHz band is the only one in the area. I've set the band size to the max I could (40 on 2.4GHz, 80 on 5GHz) as it was previously set to Auto as well, however the lag still occurs. Anything you guys could think of would help me, as apart from this being another faulty or crummy router, I'm really out of ideas.

Hey, thanks for the reply. No, they're set up as totally different SSID's. The primary has a 2.4GHz that's different and has weak signal in the room with the other (hence the need for a second one). There's then 2 SSID's on the secondary, one for 2GHz and one for 5GHz. I could try to change the settings to mirror yours but I don't think I can get into the configuration of the primary, will that be absolutely necessary or is there no way to just configure it properly on just the secondary? Also, I've started thinking it might be Wi-Fi channel congestion, however I could've sworn the same issues occur on the 5GHz as well, the laptop is about 4 meters away from the second router, and it's not in an area with a lot of tech-savvy people. I'll try to find out more and reply back here when I know.

Hey everyone, how you all doing. I've been dealing lately with a problem that's been doing my head in, mostly because I absolutely loathe routers. My girlfriend has a modem-router combo and a cable that goes to her room, where she has a second router hooked up to the first, to increase wi-fi range. Recently she was having trouble with her router in the room (almost same issues really, but I tested that router and it quite honestly broke), so she bought a new one, this one: TP-Link Archer C20i but whatever we do, she keeps having lag and losses of connection, both on the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz band no matter how I set it up. Cable from the primary is rock solid, Wi-Fi on the primary is rock solid (she uses a laptop). She either gets lag in games like WoW, or mobile phone games hooked up to the secondary Wi-Fi crash because they lose connectivity. Websites/Youtube load less continuously, so we haven't noticed any issues there, haven't used Twitch recently so we don't know. Now, I've tried to configure this puppy in a variety of ways, but mostly by hooking the cable-modem to Ethernet plug 1 and the Tp-link to the Ethernet port 1 (yellow plugs, NOT the blue). The primary is on 192.168.0.1, the secondary I set in the LAN settings to 192.168.0.2. WAN settings cannot be detected (I assume because of the blue socket being disconnected). I've tried with both disabling and enabling DHCP routing on the secondary, same problems. NAT options, same thing. I really think I'm missing something here. The worst part is that I can't get into the cable-modem, to see if anything's wrong there, but apart from lag on the secondary, we don't notice any issues with it, minus the lack of Wi-Fi range, hence the second router. I'd chalk it up to the router being crappy, but we had the same problems on the old one, and I've always believed it's a configuration error on my part. I also noticed that when I was testing if the cable isn't faulty between the two, when I connected the same devices in the same sockets with a different cable, the secondary Wi-Fi just would not get internet, and the second router kept showing Ethernet error. It went away after I reset the TP-Link to factory settings, but that's an odd quirk I don't understand as well..... Anyway, any help you guys can offer would be great, I'm really feeling I'm missing some kind of trick here, but it should not be this hard... I've also considered LAN-to-WAN but that felt weird to me, would that be the proper way to set this up?

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