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pkincy
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Dec 18, 2018
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EX7000 Extender Setup Options

In setting up an EX7000 extender you have an option to allow separate SSIDs or use the same SSID.  Which is the preferred and why??  If you connect to a device with an SSID-2ext name will it be able ...
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    StephenB
    Dec 27, 2018
    pkincy wrote:

    In other words can Device 1 and Device 2 share files and communicate across the network although they are using separate SSIDs.

    Yes.

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pkincy
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Dec 26, 2018

I likely did not phrase my Q properly.  If Device 1 is connected to SSID and Device 2 is connected to SSID_ext2 are they on the same network.  In other words can Device 1 and Device 2 share files and communicate across the network although they are using separate SSIDs.

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StephenB
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Dec 27, 2018
pkincy wrote:

In other words can Device 1 and Device 2 share files and communicate across the network although they are using separate SSIDs.

Yes.