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NETGEAR WAX610 Dual-Band WiFi 6 Access Point
Hi. I want to create a local network that allows my devices to communicate directly with each other without having an internet connection. This way, I can use a master/slave app during band rehearsa...
A hotspot functions like a router, not like a wireless access point. And your application does require local routing (even if it doesn't need internet connectivity).
No, sorry. These simple (wireless) routers, and even less a mobile phone acting as a hotspot (yet another WAN-LAN router) don't do -any- routing withing the LAN side of things. A wireless access point is a basically a plain L2 connection, without a DHCP server for the primary LAN however. since an AP does just make a L2 conneciton, for example some Zero Conf (aka. Bonjour) network devices can talk to each other, as long as there is no filter in place restricting the internal LAN2LAN access. This is one possible approaxch for configuring Dante or AES67 networks, without any local infrastructure (like a DHCP server for example).
For LAN-Internet access, these simple routers operate on thier own LAN IP subnet, the router does a Many2One NAT address conversion, so devices from that subnet are able to reach the Internet. At the same time, there is typically (and certainly nothing on a Netgear Business AP like a WAX610 blocking any other ZeroConfig/Bonjour P2P connecitons, except the WAX6xx or WBE7xx is configured to run a local private network on an SSID, and again doing M2one NAT to the AP LAN port with it's IP address.
I do expect the same is the case on any Orbi or Nighthawk router system, on the Wirless LAN side, regredless if we talk of Mesh or simple single routers. Simple test? Configure two computrers, mobiles, or tablets not to use DHCP or a fixced IP, insted configure it for ZeroNetworking, this magic 169.254.0.0/16 IP network, where Bonjpur or similas devices can communicate without an explicit IP config. I guess that still unknonwn App TheGuru47 does talk about does something similar, just a little bit trsrange it's aparently not a symmteric system, so requiring different settings for what makes up the "server" and the "client(s)" side.
PS. This **** quoting/citing does still not work correct sometimes in this community forum.
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