Our wi-fi at work is ridiculously slow, will adding more range extenders improve it?

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Published on 2013-06-13T01:28:14Z Indexed on 2013/06/30 4:22 UTC
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At work, we have two wireless networks (e.g., Work1 Work2); the Work2 is used downstairs and Work1 is used upstairs. However, both are notoriously slow. The connection is better when we are wired in, but unfortunately due to our building being very old and our company growing very fast, most employees are not seated near the walls where the ethernet cables are.

I had Cox, our ISP, run a bandwidth utilization test and it doesn't seem like we are capping out on upstream/downstream, which leads me to believe that it's strictly an issue with the wireless networks (which were implemented before I got there).

The wireless networks are both Apple Airport Extremes. Is there anything I can do to improve the situation for everyone?

Speeds are extremely slow, and sometimes drops out.

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