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WAX620 unstable connection
My setup is: - SDSL modem (Proximus) with built in router, acts as DHCP, internal wifi shut off - Netgear POE+ 5 port switch - Netgear WAX620 AP, setup as access point, in Root Mode, changed Wifi ...
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You may have done this already. I can't tell from your message.
I mention it because Netgear stopped supplying printed manuals and CD versions some years ago and people sometimes miss the downloads.
About the last thing I would consider is to deploy in a dense WiFi area is a Mesh. With a single LAN connected WAX620 (or for a test the WAX615 with it's 160 MHz channel bandwidth on 2x2), I would start with disabling the Mesh feature and re-test.
The problems existed already without Mesh. I hoped adding the 615 would have solved.
So just a simple AccessPoint mode with LAN cable direct attached didn't solve it.
I might try the 615 as Access Point only to determine if that is the problem!
The 160 Mhz 2 x 2, where can I check that setting?
jvijt wrote:
The problems existed already without Mesh. I hoped adding the 615 would have solved.
So just a simple AccessPoint mode with LAN cable direct attached didn't solve it.With all respect, when I read Proximus SDSL several things are coming into my mind. Wasn't SDSL terminated, and many of these connections were migrated to alternate services in Belgium back in the the recent years, or the 2019ties?
I try to figure out and understand, why a WAX620 or a WAX615 (connected to a PoE switch) should not perform normally. Does your Internet connection perform normally when connecting a PC or a Mac direct to the Proximus CPE? Already the approach of introducing an alternate PoE injector reads strange to me, this should not be required, too.
jvijt wrote:
I might try the 615 as Access Point only to determine if that is the problem!
The 160 Mhz 2 x 2, where can I check that setting?The WAX615 can be configured for automatic 20 ...160 MHz bandwidth, the WAX620 to 20 ... 80 MHz bandwidth, Are we talking of local device management, or are both WAX615 and 620 Insight managed? Not having if fully open, it would not impact the connection quality, much more just limit the maximum speed.
It is DSL technology, actually probably ADSL as there is a big difference between up and download.
Using the internal Wifi from the modem works all fine, connecting with a cable works fine, it all works fine.The 620 is Root Station, the 615 is in another room and only gets Power, no LAN signal. It's setup in the Mesh as extender. That config is OK, just the strange things with the internet are weird...
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