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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.
Each device is connected to a switch in my rack. It is a Netgear 8-port MS510TXUP. While there are 8 ports, the first 4 appear to go up to 1Gbps, while the next 4 appear to support up to 2.5Gbps. So, I plugged the WAPs into the second 4 ports to maximize performance. But that may be unnecessary/overkill. Thoughts?
For WAX620 using switch ports supporting 2.5 GbE is about right - anything is a waste of the WAX capabilities.
The MS510TXUP (assume this information is correct) have four 100M/1000M/2.5G, plus four 100M/1000M/2.5G/5G/10G, plus two MultiGig capable SFP+ slots with up 10 Gb. Similar for the MS510TXM (no PoE/PoE+/PoE++). The older MS510TX and MS510TXPP have a mix of four GbE plus four MultiGig ports.
H-town-Ken wrote:
While there are 8 ports, the first 4 appear to go up to 1Gbps, while the next 4 appear to support up to 2.5Gbps. So, I plugged the WAPs into the second 4 ports to maximize performance.
This read more like a MS510TXPP (or MS510TX and external power supplies to the WAX620). In this case, the four 2.5GbE ports are the correct choice.
Ah, OK. I didn't realize all 8 ports support 2.5 Gbps. My bad. So, basically, I could plug the WAPs into any of the 8 ports and get the same performance.
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