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Hello, Because I keep upgrading my routers I have now three Netgear routers in different places of my home (WNDR4500, R6300 and an R8000). Since I work from home and need redundancy, besides the ...
AP mode on the routers is a quick and dirty way to enable.... AP mode - turns off pretty well all the features and makes tem layer 2 devices.. But, since you went through the excersise already, and disabled what needed to be disabled, you should be good to go. Except you probably do not have NTP working on the NG routers, as you would use the WAN port on the routers, if you used the AP mode selection on the routers, which is buggy with some of the NG routers, so, you would end up using a LAN port, worst case, anyway.
There is no way to disable NAT on these routers.. If you are using different SSID's, that is probably the way to go, as I don't think any of these routers have an min RSSI setting, and there is no proprietary means to kick wireless client off of AP's that are sticking. They don't support 802.11.r/k/v, and alot of wireless clients don't work well with 802.1/r anyway. I'm not sure if they have a wirless TX feature to tweak your TX ouput, whihch is key when trying to set up a wireless environment, to get wireless clients to correctly roam. If you want to check the manuals to your routers, go here.
EDIT: Don't use auto channels ever. These routers are smart enough to pick the correct channel. They usually end up pick an overlapping 2.4ghz channels. Use 1,6,1 for 2.4ghz. You can call SSID anything you rwant. But, adding the _ext on the outdoor APisn't doing anything, as extenders do that for different reasons.
EDIT2: If you want to get real experimental with your AP's (using one SSID for 5ghz and one SSID for 2.4gz, you could try one channel for 2.4ghz, and one channel for 5ghz, and see if your clients roam. Other vendor's tried this technique in the early days for Zero Hand Off (aka roaming)
AP mode on the routers is a quick and dirty way to enable.... AP mode - turns off pretty well all the features and makes tem layer 2 devices.. But, since you went through the excersise already, and disabled what needed to be disabled, you should be good to go. Except you probably do not have NTP working on the NG routers, as you would use the WAN port on the routers, if you used the AP mode selection on the routers, which is buggy with some of the NG routers, so, you would end up using a LAN port, worst case, anyway.
There is no way to disable NAT on these routers.. If you are using different SSID's, that is probably the way to go, as I don't think any of these routers have an min RSSI setting, and there is no proprietary means to kick wireless client off of AP's that are sticking. They don't support 802.11.r/k/v, and alot of wireless clients don't work well with 802.1/r anyway. I'm not sure if they have a wirless TX feature to tweak your TX ouput, whihch is key when trying to set up a wireless environment, to get wireless clients to correctly roam. If you want to check the manuals to your routers, go here.
EDIT: Don't use auto channels ever. These routers are smart enough to pick the correct channel. They usually end up pick an overlapping 2.4ghz channels. Use 1,6,1 for 2.4ghz. You can call SSID anything you rwant. But, adding the _ext on the outdoor APisn't doing anything, as extenders do that for different reasons.
EDIT2: If you want to get real experimental with your AP's (using one SSID for 5ghz and one SSID for 2.4gz, you could try one channel for 2.4ghz, and one channel for 5ghz, and see if your clients roam. Other vendor's tried this technique in the early days for Zero Hand Off (aka roaming)
"EDIT: Don't use auto channels ever."
I don't know if I understand correctly the Channels Setup. So should I change the 2.4GHz channels in the routers like this?
WNDR4500 - 1
R6300 - 6
R8000 - 1
How about the 5.0GHz? Right now they are like this.
WNDR4500 - Auto
R6300 - 153
R8000 - 44 on 5GHz-1 and 153 o 5GHz-2
I couldn't find any setting to tweak the TX feature in any of the routers. The only mention to TX in all three manuals was under statistics that shows TxPkts and Tx B/s.
Just to confirm.
"If you used the AP mode selection on the routers, which is buggy with some of the NG routers, so, you would end up using a LAN port, worst case, anyway."
As for the AP mode, basically, my understanding of what you said is that the built in AP Mode in these routers is buggy meaning since everything is working fine the way I setup things I should leave that way and don't use the built in AP Mode correct? There is no gains or losses by using the built in AP Mode?
"If you are using different SSID's, that is probably the way to go".
As for the SSID names also the best is to give each router a different name which is the current setup I have correct? I mean, I know that you said that I can experiment although as an example it worth mention that both, my laptop and mobile phone which are the only things I move around my home has all the three routers SSID and passwords saved and every time they find that a particular router has a strong signal they change to the better connection automatically.
"EDIT2: If you want to get real experimental with your AP's"
The reason I asked about using the same SSID name was more to not have 6 available connections all the time (2 from each router, 2.4Ghz, and 5GHz) and try to make things simple, but what I really want to achieve is the best way to do it and not the simple way to use it :-)
Thanks again. I'm learning a lot and from what I see so far I haven't done anything wrong :-)