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Yamaha MusicCast with Mesh System
I recently moved to a larger house, so I bought an MR60 system to hopefully extend my range. It has been great until now. I bought a new Yamaha RX-V485 receiver and am in the process of setting up a...
In the event anyone ever searches for MusicCast and mesh Wi-Fi, I will answer my own question.
I gave up waiting for Yamaha to get back to me, and I didn't get much help from various forums, as I went ahead and set up the Linksys WRT1900ACS in wired bridge mode upstairs, connected to the new Nighthawk AC2100 Smart WiFi Router that I just bought through a switch and disabled the 2.4 GHz network on the Linksys. That pretty much solved all my problems, except for the money I spent on the Netgear MK62 mesh system that would not work. My phone even controls the MusicCast equipment when connected to the new 5 GHz network, so the problem must be that Yamaha MusicCast wants all the controlled equipment connected to the 2.4 GHz (or same network - but I can't test that as the older unit can't connect to 5 GHz) network. What a pain.
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Christian
In the event anyone ever searches for MusicCast and mesh Wi-Fi, I will answer my own question.
I gave up waiting for Yamaha to get back to me, and I didn't get much help from various forums, as I went ahead and set up the Linksys WRT1900ACS in wired bridge mode upstairs, connected to the new Nighthawk AC2100 Smart WiFi Router that I just bought through a switch and disabled the 2.4 GHz network on the Linksys. That pretty much solved all my problems, except for the money I spent on the Netgear MK62 mesh system that would not work. My phone even controls the MusicCast equipment when connected to the new 5 GHz network, so the problem must be that Yamaha MusicCast wants all the controlled equipment connected to the 2.4 GHz (or same network - but I can't test that as the older unit can't connect to 5 GHz) network. What a pain.