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Can you extend the wifi signal of a WAX610 with an AX1600 Wifi Extender
Hello, I am trying to set up an AX1600 as a wifi extender to my closest Wax610 access point. The nighthawk app finds the Wax610 powered network ok (both 2.4 and 5) but when I enter the passwords (sam...
Apologies I posted it here in case the issue was with the Wax610 configuration. But yes it has worked fine setting it up with the browser rather than the app - case solved!
Andrew
Sure, you could extend a single SSID using such a basic extender like an EAX12 - however, not multiple VLANs and more. To discuss consumer WiFi Range Extenders & Nighthawk Mesh please join the appropriate community section.
Definitive the best solution to add additional Wireless Access Points is to add yet another WAX6xx or WBE7xx on a wired Ethernet connection.
Second best choice - where cabling can't be established easily - is to add yet another WAX6xx creating a Insight Mesh -> How do I set up an Insight Instant Mesh network? Yes, for this configuration, all the WAX6xx need to be Netgear Insight integrated. This automatically allows seamless roaming even for WPA3-Personal (WPA3-SAE) - without, this isn't possible,
Regardless is deploying a consumer WiFi extender or an Insight Mesh: Keep in mind - in absence of a wired backhaul or a dedicated wireless backhaul - that -all- the wireless traffic does flow over the same Wi-Fi channels, limiting the performance massively. So the performance disappointment is predictable.
Thank you!
But the nighthawk app finds the Wax610 powered network ok (both 2.4 and 5) but when I enter the wifi password in the nighthawk app as part of setup (same for both), it comes back with 'Incorrect Password'. I have tried it with mesh turned on and off in the Wax610. Anything I need to set differently on the Wax610?
The Insight Instant Mesh config is just required for adding additional WAX6xx as a wireless "satellite".
Thank you. Yes I understand that but I am trying to add an AX1600 extender to my Wax610 (not another Wax610) which you seemed to indicate would work ok, but it does not let me add it to the Wax610 powered wifi network.
Wrong SSID selected? Wrong security? Wrong PSK (wireless key)? Already tried the Web based config for the Extender instead of hope and pray in an App? Configured the extender in Mesh mode allowing to duplicate the same SSID and security settings, or have tried to configure a classic xyz-EXT SSID on the extender?
The point is we're on the Business Wireless community section here, and last but not least I'm not Netgear and do t have any current experience with these consumer extenders. Sorry.
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