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RBK12 Router as AP
Need some assistance with a hypothetical set up. Have an existing mesh network with router and 3 satellites. Can I hang an additional router off the last satellite (via mesh network) and feed a hardw...
You can but you'd want it setup in access point mode to prevent a double nat.
And that 2nd router would need to be hardwired into the satellite.
(I've actually done that before to feed a separate home as well)
plemans wrote:
And that 2nd router would need to be hardwired into the satellite.
This assumes the existing satellites are not RBS10, which have no Ethernet port.
Which they are.
Tough to connect a router to a satellite when the satellite doesn't have any ethernet ports.
You might look at getting a system that has satellites that support ethernet. I'd also investigate a triband system and use that for the base system.
Otherwise, the 2nd systems speed will be limited by the dual bands backhaul speed (which is much slower than the tribands)