NETGEAR Nighthawk WiFi 6 Mesh Range Extender

I bought this to extend a WiFi signal from an older Netgear Router to the other side of our house. The signal from the old router would work, but was slow and spotty at that distance. This unit worked great right out of the box. It extended the signal and seemed to have almost no loss in speed. Very happy But we live on the periphery of the power grid, and have frequent power outages, usually no more than a second or two. Probably once a week or so. After every power failure, the cable modem and older unit come back fine, but this EAX80 flashes a red light on the front panel and just sits there. It isn't until I notice the WiFi speed has dropped back that I know to go reset it, as it's in an inaccessible place where I can't see the red light. As soon as I power cycle it, it comes up running again until the next power failure. If you never have power failures this might be a great product, but for me it only works a few days out of every week. It's probably because it comes up faster than the cable modem, so there is no signal for it to forward. As such I could probably fix it with UPS units on the cable modem, the old router, and this thing. But right now it's pretty much useless I have contacted Netgear Support. Update : After three emails with Tech Support they were still not convinced I either owned one or purchased it properly from Amazon. Gave up. I no longer think the problem is power failures, it just every now and then drops the signal and won't hook back up until you reset it. The concept of having the same Network SSID that you're extending was interesting for me because I have a ReadyShare drive on the main router, and use that to transfer files from one computer to another around the house. Only, with this thing, the ReadyShare only works a very small percentage of the time. Not enough to make it useful anymore. To get around this I shut off the extended and just use the direct 2.4ghz signal, although it's very weak. A problem with the "Same SSID" concept is that when the extender isn't working, you can't tell unless you notice that the WiFi icon has dropped from 4 rings to one. Giving up and storing it in a closet somewhere