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WAX620 Mesh Question
I have two WAX620's and want to set them up as mesh and both will be ethernet wired. Will they backhaul over ethernet as default, or how do I set that up.
With just wired WAX6xx you don't set-up any mesh* config. Just two or more WAX6xx (or WAC5xx) on the same wired network, no mesh.
*A designation massively abused in the consumer "Mesh" network devices.
This question also goes to something I'm trying to do in my home-office, but I'm still not clear on some things having read the above.
I have 4 wax620's and 2 wax610y's to be managed with Insight, yet to add them all in, all connected using ethernet via a managed PoE+ Netgear switch to a StarLink router that provides internet connection via ethernet and wifi (lets call that "satwifi"). I don't plan to have any 'extender' AP's connected wirelessly.
I would like to have all the AP's distributing the existing "satwifi" SSID and to be able to roam around the property without changing wifi SSID. It seems a simple enough requirement but I'm struggling to find how I can do it.
I see from the above that I can simply connect all my AP's via ethernet as I'd like, as it seems DavidVt did, without setting them up to be a mesh network. All makes perfect sense, they're all talking to each other through the wires. But how do I then get those AP's to distribute the "satwifi" SSID for me? I tried this setup with one WAX620 but the connection is still directly to the StarLink router (some distance away) ie. I connected to "satwifi" but the my laptop connected to the router and not to the AP I'm sitting next to. Is there something else I need to do for each AP such as making them each a "base station" with wifi bridging?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
I’m no expert on this, but my two WAX620’s are working very well in the non meshed, both wired mode. After fiddling around with the mesh for awhile I took the advice above to run them without mesh and did a factory reset on the second AP. When I attached it to Insight, it picked up the two SSID’s that were setup on the primary, there was nothing that needed to be done, although I had read somewhere that they will work better if they are on different channels, so I did that. My previous wifi had a Netgear EX8000 extender that I still had connected a powered up. I think that was interfering with the 620’s, as the performance got much better when I shut that one off. So I’d suggest to shut off the radio in the Sat router if possible, and let the Netgear AP’s handle it. I’m getting about 700Mbps with my wired connections to Comcast, and I’m seeing speeds of 650 Mbps in closed rooms away from the AP’s. It took about a day for the two APs to balance the clients, and for the most part, the clients are connecting to the strongest signal. I’m really pleased with the results.
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