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I have a Cisco Air 3600 Access Point, and I have multiple SSID's that I am broadcasting from each radio (3 SSID's on the 2GHz radio and 3 SSID's on the 5GHz radio). The X6S will only extend 1 SSID per radio and yet it will broadcast a Guest SSID in addition to the one SSID on each radio. I dont understand why multiple SSID's cant be broadcast from this extenders radios (beyong the Guest SSID). It certainly has the hardware capable of broadcasting Multiple SSID's per radio. I would greatly appreciate the ability to broadcast Multiple SSID's per radio (beyond the Guest SSID).
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The purpose of it is for the x6s triband extender to dedicate 1x of its 5ghz bands back to the primary AP. It then lets you setup the other 2 bands for usage either using the same ssid as the AP or with their own unique ones. They're not connecting back to the primary so they don't take the throughput hit and increased latency hit that standard extenders take.
Because standard extenders don't do this, they take a roughly 50% speed hit because the same radio has to communicate between the router and the clients. And they can't do both at once. Hence, 50% throughput hit and increased latency.
Im not sure I am getting what you are explainging. Broadcasting a SSID (or more than 1 SSID) doesnt have any impact on anything, now if smultiple things uses multiple SSID's on the same radio then sure that radio is impacted, but at the speeds each radio has, for my purposes the bandwidth can be split just fine. I just dont see why multiple SSID's cant be broadcast on the same radio is all.
