@phried-wire 

The way the extender works is it needs to receive the data and then send the data. When you connect directly to the router, the router does both at the same time which is why it would be faster connecting directly to the router.

In your case, having your devices connect directly to the router would be more beneficial than connecting through the extender. 

If you have devices that were further away and got absolutely no signal or the signal was 20% or less, you would place the extender at the halfway point. 

So the extender does not always equal boosts in speeds as it works in half-duplex. If a device has slow speeds due to a very weak signal from the router, then expect to see an increase when connecting to the extender.

If the client device gets just as good of a signal from the router as the extender does, then stick to the router.

In general, you can look at around half the speed so if the extender is connected at 11 Mbps then 3 Mbps is about there.

However, if just connecting to the 2.4G, connect your cell phone to the 2.4G and see what link speed it gets, if it's around 11 Mbps then that's prob the best you can get. If the phone gets a higher rate, move the extender closer.

@Tony 

hey, thanks will give this a try.