21/02/2022, 04:08 PM
(24/01/2022, 10:30 PM)Seán Wrote: The MW6's I have will turn their LEDs red when they have no Internet access, even while they are all connected together. Basically, the LED on each node appears to be an indication of Internet access rather than it just being connected to the mesh. For example, whenever my 4G connection is down, the LEDs turn red even though everything else works fine within the home such as wireless printing.
If their LEDs are red even with Internet access, there might be something blocking access to whichever server they test for Internet connectivity, such as a content filter.
Hi all, first post - happy to be here!
I’m a broadly happy MW6 user looking for some clarification. Do I understand correctly that if I connect the the Ethernet backhaul then the nodes will automatically use this instead of connecting wirelessly? Or are they smart enough to realise that they should use the fastest available connection? I only ask because I previously had some gigabit Powerline adapters in my house but it seemed to me that my wiring was limiting their speeds quite dramatically. I think upstairs and downstairs are on different circuits or something. Anyway, I’m wondering if there’s any benefit to me plugging in a potentially slow Ethernet backhaul to support the wireless connectivity that I have (and which is deemed to be “excellent” by the Tenda app. I have no ethernet cable in the walls so powerlines are the only option for me if I want to do this.
Also, related: am I right from reading this thread that the MW6s reserve their 5G wifi for connecting to each other, so client devices can only get to the 2.4G wifi? If so, would my Ethernet backhaul plan above free up the 5G wifi from the nodes? (I guess the benefit of that depends on how slow or otherwise the Powerline adapters will be).