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WAX206 seamless roaming
I have 2xWAX206.
They are both connected to the same 2.5Gb switch so I'm utilising the 2.5Gb ports on them.
I'm trying to identify the ideal settings to enable seamless roaming (if supported) as I see my devices are not moving from one AP to the other but instead they try to hang on to their old AP till all of the signal is completely lost.
I need to get proper roaming on 5GHz as my 2.4GHz is overloaded and don't want to use it.
So I need to enable smart connect? What bands would I need to have enabled if I enable Smart Connect? Both 2.4/5GHz. It seems that my devices (iPhone 15 Pro / iPad M1) prefer to first go to 2.4GHz and then move to 5GHz for some reason.
Anyway - the question here if it is supported and what are the correct settings.
If it is not supported would I have to go to a Mesh system? I would want to utilise though connectivity to the APs using my switch not extend from one AP (Mesh Node) to the other. Is that possible? With which product?
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On the Essential WiFi AP like all WAX2xx models, deploy the same SSID, the same wireless key (wireless password) and use only WPA2-PSK. Yes, this might require dropping the Wi-Fi config of your wireless clients and re-configuring the WiFi settings.
For WPA3-SAE (or WPA3-Personal how Netgear is naming it), you don't need a wireless Mesh-system - just APs supporting seamless roaming support (typically using a cloud infrastructure) like the WAX6xx with Insight Management.
Thanks that's how I have it setup.
I debugged my issue to one of the APs 5GHz band.
When the AP gets a lot of network load (and that happens on 5GHz band) it hangs and needs reboot.
So I have disabled 5GHz on that AP for now till I replace it with another one...
murdof wrote:
I debugged my issue to one of the APs 5GHz band.
When the AP gets a lot of network load (and that happens on 5GHz band) it hangs and needs reboot.
So I have disabled 5GHz on that AP for now till I replace it with another one...
WAX206 Firmware Version 1.0.4.0 current? Something for Netgear QA to look into please hnagaraju please.
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