I'm finding my AT&T service is so slow that I can't work with it. so why can't I get it to connect when it is sitting right beside my router. What amazes me is it says this can be in another room not hindered by walls, etc. The extender is sitting a few inches up and over a few inches from my router and it will not connect.
It has no instructions except a few sentences on the box top. This has been going on for months now but now it’s just getting annoying if anything to be honest. It’s ridiculous that that’s what I’d have to do to make me feel like it showing the number of devices connected is slowing my connection down late at night when internet traffic is at its least giving me the best of its capability. It seems like the only real fix on my end is to turn, whatever is not actually on and connected to my network, on and then power it back off. For example, an old iPhone 5 or 10 year old Xbox 360 does not have the capability of being technically powered off, but still has the ability to be connected to WiFi (standby mode) yet the connected devices list will still show either one or both still connected for weeks or up to months on end until I turn whatever device on and then turn it back off. I also can’t help but to think that it still does have an effect on how fast the connection is despite a vast majority of the devices not connected and completely powered off.
It does show that at one point there may have been 13 connected but I know for a fact that there’s only 3 or 4 later on at times powered on and connected and some have even been completely powered off for literally weeks, or even months and they'll still show up as connected.
When I check to see the list of how many devices are connected to my network, I can tell it’s not accurate 99% of the time.