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Introducing the Nighthawk WiFi 6 Mesh System
In case you missed it, NETGEAR introduced its newest product line at CES 2020, the Nighthawk Mesh WiFi system with WiFi 6. NETGEAR’s Nighthawk line of routers has become synonymous w...
I'm planning to buy this model. And i just checked the linked kb page. It seems that they have fixed the erratum. The kb page now instructs you to use Ethernet port. I am planning to connect the router and satellite with some unmanaged switches like Netgear GS308. Hopefully it will work!
Any updates on the use of unmanaged switches between the nighthawk mesh 6 router and the satellite? It would go modem -> nighthawk 6 mesh router -> unmanaged switch—> unmanaged switch -> nighthawk 6 mesh satellite
AFAIK this is workable. The question is what's the idea behind the deployment of a Mesh system instead of a real router (or even the typical very reasonable ISP unit) and add a PoE/PoE+ switch with some wireless access points. Modern environments like Netgear's Insight allow a very simple single point of management, too.
- WiFi if the most important and a seamless WiFi that mesh provides is key. The unmanaged switches are only being deployed because at the main router point there are two hardwire devices and one hardware device at the satellite location. Because the nighthawk mesh 6 doesn’t have addition ports, I would need to leverage a switch. Of course I could just go with something more fitting like Netgear orbi which 4 ports but looking for cheap + WiFi 6. Keep in mind this is also an implementation at my parents house and I want something seamless and easy that doesn’t require up keep or maintenance..
Blee1285 wrote:
WiFi if the most important and a seamless WiFi that mesh provides is key.Any decent WiFi AP does support 802.11k and 802.11v - this is what the consumer networking industry designate as Mesh. Matter of fact: Most of these products are over-marketed and don't build a mesh as per the common understanding.
Performance-wise there the difference between a reasonable 802.11ac and the lower-end WiFi 6 implementation e.g. on the MK6x kits is marginal. Average to full WiFi 6 prerfomance is much more costly.
