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cbradley55
Aspirant
Jun 15, 2020

Creating one wifi network with mesh and nighthawk

Hello. I have a RAX120 in my large home (first floor), but it seems slow in the basement and second floor. I added the MK62 placing the router in the basement and satellite upstairs. They are all wired together by cat5 cables everywhere. I have the two networks running now, but shouldn't they "mesh" into one network? Whenever I add a device, I have to decide which network to sign into depending on the floor if I want to be on the fastest network. I think I missed a step somewhere because I thought the MK62 would just broadcast the primary network that was already setup through the RAX120. Any ideas on what I should do? Thanks.

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  • Christian_R's avatar
    Christian_R
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jun 18, 2020

    Hi cbradley55, 

     

    I'll check in with the team on this inquiry. In the meantime, would you mind letting me know if you have the 2 SSIDs named the same?

     

    Thanks,

    Christian 

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      cbradley55
      Aspirant
      Jun 23, 2020

      Hello. I spoke to Netgear support and they gave me two options: change my RAX120 to an access point ot get another Mesh satellite. I chose the latter, since it would waste the RAX's capabilities. They said the Mesh is more powerful as a standalone, and so far I have coverage everywhere in my large home. The RAX120 seemed faster to me, but just couldn't reach the farthest parts of my house. I plan on giving the router to the kids, sinced they are into games anyway. If I had a router that wasn't as good, I would have changed it to an access point. But thanks for looking into my situation!