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Retired_Member

Nov 27, 2013

XWNB5201 second slave?

I just purchased the XWNB5201 Powerline 500Mbps to N300 Wi-Fi Access Point for use with an existing Netgear WNR1000 Wireless-N router. It's for use in a large house with concrete walls. The WNR1000 g...

michaelkenward

Guru - Experienced User

Nov 28, 2013

JenniferMurphy wrote:
This is not a duplicate post. The first one asks about making roaming seamless. This one asks about adding a second slave unit to achieve greater coverage.

JenniferMurphy wrote:
This is not a duplicate post. The first one asks about making roaming seamless. This one asks about adding a second slave unit to achieve greater coverage.

I agree, completely different subject.

I have just done the same thing and was pondering this question.

My guess is that we will need to set the second "slave" to broadcast a different SSID. Netgeat_EXT2, for example.

Has anyone done this?