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Help running 2 routers with different SSIDs without performance issues
I am using an R8000 right now for all my devices including my work laptop since I work from home. Is it possible to also run a mesh with system with a different SSID to put all my non work devices on ...
I’m wanting to run Two separate networks. The one I have now and a second with a mesh system.
If you want a seperate Mesh, I'd look into the Orbi products of NETGEAR
microchip8 wrote:
If you want a seperate Mesh, I'd look into the Orbi products of NETGEAR
I have just this. An R7800 with its wifi and SSID, and Orbi in AP modem with its SSID.
Setting it up is the easy bit. Managing it may need a bit more work. Not knowing what you plan to do to keep the users apart, it is hard to know if this would achieve what you want.
michaelkenward wrote:
microchip8 wrote:If you want a seperate Mesh, I'd look into the Orbi products of NETGEAR
I have just this. An R7800 with its wifi and SSID, and Orbi in AP modem with its SSID.
This makes two different SSIDs connecting to the very same network (LAN, IPv4 subnet).
johnc847 wrote:
I’m wanting to run Two separate networks. The one I have now and a second with a mesh system.Your primary router would require support to handle to network, two IP subnets, ... consumer routers typically don't. Even if cascading two routers (like the existing and a new mesh router), the "inner" router will use the "outer" router as a pass-through network.
However, as michaelkenward also mentioned, your expectations and wishes are unclear.
If you must have two independent networks, there is no other way but changing the network design bottom up, and deploy for example an Orbi Pro or Orbi Pro WiFi 6 system. for your primary work wireless, you can deploy the same wireless name (SSID) and security key/passphrase, so the impact to the existing devices is minimal.
- Sorry for being unclear. I'll try again.
I'm using a R8000 now for everything. My wife and i both work from home. The R8000 covers the area we work from very good but parts of the other house isn't.
I'd like to have two separate WiFi networks:
1: using the existing R8000 that would only be for work devices. To keep from reconnecting all other devices in the house I'd change the SSID of the existing R8000 and reconnect work devices. I would like them on their own network/SSID/Router.
2: setup a new orbi system I bought that will use the SSID the existing devices are connected to do I don't have to reconnect ask the non work devices. This new orbi system would be for non work devices and give me the ability to get WiFi in parts of the house the R8000 doesn't reach.
I thought I had done this before and someone helped me I had to change the ip addresses used on the second router or something like that to keep them from clashing. So to sum it up, I want to run one wireless network with the R8000 for work and a second wireless network using the orbi system I bought that will be dedicated to all non work devices. That way my WiFi network for work devices only has a few connected and the traffic for work is separate from all other devices.
