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Doug_Ho
Jan 10, 2021Apprentice
WAC564 Mesh without Insight
I purchased a few WAC564 a couple months ago for my church, and everything I've seen says that using Insight is required for mesh mode. Shortly after I purchased and sucessfully setup mesh (using In...
schumaku
Jan 11, 2021Guru - Experienced User
You save more time monitoring and keeping up your system or applying the smallest changes than the ~10 USD p.a. and device Insight Premium subscription. Adding more access points or Mesh hops is a snap. It's a very small part of the TCO for such a network.
Doug_Ho wrote:All my other Netgear devices allow standalone web management mode which works great, but the standalone mode of WAC564 only works for non-mesh purposes.
This is not fully appropriate - full 802.11 k/v/r seamless roaming support for example is available with Insight only.
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