WAX620 Mesh Question

How did you add them back in? Are they wired via ethernet or still wireless?

My limited understanding (aka happy to be corrected) is that mesh is the ability to have devices distribute/share/transfer/re-authorise the wifi signal as you move around. So on all-ethernet they are indeed in a 'mesh', just that it's not got a wifi backhaul config.  But most people think of it as applying to wireless.

Each device needs to know which wifi network its 'meshing into', and how its operating therein, and that its not just an extender/repeater, because being 'mesh' means it needs both a 'backhaul' capability for devices to communicate/manage/handoff with each other as you move around, plus other wifi channels for the data txm to devices. But with ethernet the devices are basically already on the required network to do all the backhaul comms management (meshing?) they need, so the only setup they really need to know for the wifi is whether they'll have their own SSID or a distributing a common network SSID. 

DavidVt  thanks for your earlier response. Apologies for not replying sooner, been a bit busy but your info was in line with what i was thinking. I've tested with the satellite wifi still going alongside a new SSID for the ethernet connected netgear devices and they all seem quite happy ie. i've stopped trying to get everything onto the satellite SSID. The satellite router is quite happy to let multiple SSID's get to the internet via ethernet - I guess it just sees inet requests coming through its own closed network of the wires.

On performance I think it used to be the case that using a repeater on your wifi would halve the throughput, slowing the whole wifi network. I'd definitely seen that on older devices. Not sure if its still the case.