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WAX630E Best connection method for 2 AP's at same location?
I have 2 WAX630E AP's in my home. While it might seem overkill, I have a single story 3800sqft home, and figured one at the front of the house and one at the rear would provide the best coverage/spe...
schumaku wrote:Undoubted, this is where I would bring a MS108EUP uplink port so you have a consistent 2.5GbE coverage.
It's not a question of 6E - the same would apply if operating 5 GHz AX on a 4x4 or for the sake on 2x2 clients. The performance would not massively differ if not having the 4x4 in 5.0GHz H, 4x4 in 5.0GHz L, 4x4 in 2.4GHz radios on board (5.0GHz H: 2400Mbps, 5.0GHz L: 2400Mbps, 2.4GHz: 1200Mbps) instead of the 2x2 in 6.0GHz, 4x4 in 5.0GHz, 2x2 in 2.4GHz radios (6.0GHz: 2400Mbps, 5.0GHz: 4800Mbps, 2.4GHz: 600Mbps). Needless to say, the dedicated 6 GHz channels provide an advantage due to the much less occupied band.
The powerful AP could take big advantage on the 2.5GbE vs. the limited single Gigabit uplink.
I have arranged it so the MS108 is directly connected to the appliance so the 2.5G is fully realized, and the Gigabit switch uplinks to that. I did not notice any difference until I realized I never went and enabled 6G on the AP. Once I did that, all was good.
if you can wire in your home, Please use wired backhauls to get full throughputs. this will remove wireless as the limitation.
Disable Insight instant mesh altogether to avoid any accidental loops.
I have consistently got 900+ mbps and upto 1.2 Gbps when my Samsung S21 (BRCM chipsets) and Samsung Windows 11 laptop (intel AX210 ) when connects in 6E mode. I have changed the channel bandwidth on 6Ghz radios to 160Mhz.
(my ISP is ATT 1Gig up/down). I use 2.5gig switch as backhaul.
abacqdghfth wrote:if you can wire in your home, Please use wired backhauls to get full throughputs. this will remove wireless as the limitation.
Disable Insight instant mesh altogether to avoid any accidental loops.
I have consistently got 900+ mbps and upto 1.2 Gbps when my Samsung S21 (BRCM chipsets) and Samsung Windows 11 laptop (intel AX210 ) when connects in 6E mode. I have changed the channel bandwidth on 6Ghz radios to 160Mhz.
(my ISP is ATT 1Gig up/down). I use 2.5gig switch as backhaul.
Currently I do have the mesh enabled (which it sounds like I need to disable). My home is wired. Currently the setup AP wise is:
AP1 -> MS108EUP (port1) -> MS108EUP (port5) -> TP-Link Gigabit switch -> firewall appliance (OPNSense) with 2.5G
AP2 -> MS108EUP (port2) -> same as above
Is that correct for backhaul as well? If so, I'm thinking I just need to bypass the TP-Link and go straight to the appliance.
Running a pretty similar set up myself with two WAX630E APs, MS108EUP for POE++ and netgate firewall appliance. That should probably be fine, but you may want to be careful about the way you set up VLANs on the APs + Trunk/Access ports on the MS108EUP + TPLink and PFSense box. I also ran into some issues when using a non-default VLAN for the management interface, instant mesh 'optimization' schedule and 2.4/5/6 on the same SSID, so you may want to experiment with those options if you're running into weirdness like I was
matt7277 wrote:Running a pretty similar set up myself with two WAX630E APs, MS108EUP for POE++ and netgate firewall appliance. That should probably be fine, but you may want to be careful about the way you set up VLANs on the APs + Trunk/Access ports on the MS108EUP + TPLink and PFSense box. I also ran into some issues when using a non-default VLAN for the management interface, instant mesh 'optimization' schedule and 2.4/5/6 on the same SSID, so you may want to experiment with those options if you're running into weirdness like I was
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