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One WiFi Name feature when EX8000 connected as access point
Can anyone confirm that the "One WiFi Name" feature actually works when when the EX8000 is connected as an access point? The option is missing from my settings. User manual indicates it should work. ...
Hi MobsterPhil,
Never in my life have I encountered tech support like Netgear. It's like they set my wife down at a desk, gave her a phone and a Netgear manual and said people will call in with questions. You can find the answers in the manual.
Anyway aside from that I did get things working. There is a link to a document below. The note in step 8 alludes that you need to manually enter the same SSID as your router for One WiFi Name feature to work. It isn't real clear about this because then it mentions " With One WiFi enabled" and of course the problem is the option is not there to enable and if it was you wouldn't need to enter the same credentials as your router. Who writes this stuff? So I did manually enter the same SSID as the router. I also have another EX8000 on WiFi with one WiFi enabled plus the router. As I move about the house my devices connect to the EX or router with the strongest signal and it does seem to behave as a mesh network should. Good Luck, Mike
Hello Mike,
I lost a lot of time today, but I will have a call organized with second line soon. I hope they will be able to help me.
I had my network configured as yours, but that is not really a mesh network. When setup like that, there are some disadvantages:
- Both AP's interfere instead of working together
- You stay connected to the closest AP at the moment you connected. When moving around, it is possible that you stay connected to the most far away AP with a bad connection while sitting next to the other AP.
- You loose connection when switching AP
- You have a lot more radiation in your house then needed.
What I found out already is that both (extender and router) are configured in a different subnet. Therefore the 'one wifi name' option could be disabled.
I hope the second line will be able to configure my network...