EX8000 and R8000P setup using second 5G

[RRAL]

Hi All,

I'm trying to setup my EX8000 with my R8000P.  Both are tri-band, but it's not configuring the way I thought it would. I was expexcting the communication between the router and the extender to use the second 5G, but it's using the 2.4G and the first 5G.  I would prefer to have them both use the second 5G and not have anything else connected to it.  Is this possible?  Am I just not understanding how this works?

Thanks

Ron

[RRAL]

Sorry, should have said I'm using it in extender mode and I'm trying to extend both my 2.4G and 5G networks using the same names as the router.

[StephenB]

Normally you'd enable fastlane and use one of the 5G radios for the backhaul link to the router.  Then the other 5G radio in the extender would be client-facing.

5G-2 is the best backhaul choice since it's the fastest radio (4x4 ac)

Is this how you've set it up?

[RRAL]

I'm not sure if it's setup that way or not, but that's want I wanted to do.  I'm unclear on whether is does that automatically or not.  I can't find a way to change it.  Attached is a screen shot of my status page which seems to show that it isn't configured that way, but maybe I'm misunderstanding it.

Thanks for your help.

[StephenB]

It looks like it's connecting to the router on 5G-1 (channel 44).  Not horrible, but not ideal.

Can you give 5G-2 on the router a different network name?

[RRAL]

Yes, it's named EXTLINK

[StephenB]

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@RRAL wrote:

Yes, it's named EXTLINK

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Then check that the EX8000 is set up to use EXTLINK for it's router connection.  Normally 5G-1 is only for lower channels, and 5G-2 is only for upper ones.  So that should result in the EX8000 using it's 5G-2 radio to reach the router.