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WAX620 unstable connection
My setup is: - SDSL modem (Proximus) with built in router, acts as DHCP, internal wifi shut off - Netgear POE+ 5 port switch - Netgear WAX620 AP, setup as access point, in Root Mode, changed Wifi ...
About the last thing I would consider is to deploy in a dense WiFi area is a Mesh. With a single LAN connected WAX620 (or for a test the WAX615 with it's 160 MHz channel bandwidth on 2x2), I would start with disabling the Mesh feature and re-test.
The problems existed already without Mesh. I hoped adding the 615 would have solved.
So just a simple AccessPoint mode with LAN cable direct attached didn't solve it.
I might try the 615 as Access Point only to determine if that is the problem!
The 160 Mhz 2 x 2, where can I check that setting?
jvijt wrote:
The problems existed already without Mesh. I hoped adding the 615 would have solved.
So just a simple AccessPoint mode with LAN cable direct attached didn't solve it.With all respect, when I read Proximus SDSL several things are coming into my mind. Wasn't SDSL terminated, and many of these connections were migrated to alternate services in Belgium back in the the recent years, or the 2019ties?
I try to figure out and understand, why a WAX620 or a WAX615 (connected to a PoE switch) should not perform normally. Does your Internet connection perform normally when connecting a PC or a Mac direct to the Proximus CPE? Already the approach of introducing an alternate PoE injector reads strange to me, this should not be required, too.
jvijt wrote:
I might try the 615 as Access Point only to determine if that is the problem!
The 160 Mhz 2 x 2, where can I check that setting?The WAX615 can be configured for automatic 20 ...160 MHz bandwidth, the WAX620 to 20 ... 80 MHz bandwidth, Are we talking of local device management, or are both WAX615 and 620 Insight managed? Not having if fully open, it would not impact the connection quality, much more just limit the maximum speed.
It is DSL technology, actually probably ADSL as there is a big difference between up and download.
Using the internal Wifi from the modem works all fine, connecting with a cable works fine, it all works fine.The 620 is Root Station, the 615 is in another room and only gets Power, no LAN signal. It's setup in the Mesh as extender. That config is OK, just the strange things with the internet are weird...
jvijt wrote:
It is DSL technology, actually probably ADSL as there is a big difference between up and download.
Using the internal Wifi from the modem works all fine, connecting with a cable works fine, it all works fine.Understood, your former SDSL service was migrated towards some kind of DSL, probably ADSL, with asymmetrical down- and upload bandwidth. Some kind of a NAT router handling the LAN and some private LAN IP addresses, e.g. in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet.
jvijt wrote:
The 620 is Root Station, the 615 is in another room and only gets Power, no LAN signal. It's setup in the Mesh as extender. That config is OK, just the strange things with the internet are weird...
Several weird things at least. You have the ISPs NAT router with multiple LAN ports (guessing), this should allow to operate multiple local devices, on the wired LAN, and on both access points. Whereas one does only have PoE, no LAN? No RFC1918 LAN IP like 192.168.1.x/24 assigned to each of the WAX, the WAX620 and the WAX615? With the Gigabit PoE switch, each of the ports can easily provide sufficient coverage. Hard to understand, why one does not get LAN as you say..
I think this is the area we should look into here - long before we start to fine tune both APs. First both WAX AP should become workable for it's own IP and Internet (the local device management to start with), and then any wireless clients should be able to get LAN IP addresses assigned by your ISP router LAN DHCP. Sorry, I don't want to let you alone here with what I don't feel like a Netgear issue, being the PoE switch, being the PoE switch LAN ports, ...
Is this ISP CPE a NAT router, or is it just offering the public IP to one device at a time, the point where one would connect a NAT router WAN port?
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