Hello everyone,
I too have come here from Google after having tried to set up two MW12s with wired backhaul. In other words, besides the primary node, all I want is a second MW12 to also get its connection via ethernet.
After much debugging I have found the culprit to be my (additional) switch.
When I connect the second MW12 directly to the primary one, everything works as expected.
When I connect them both to my ISP's router with built-in switch it works fine as well, whether the connection is direct or via the wall sockets.
So this works
Primary: ISP router -> Wall socket -> MW 12 WAN Port
Secondary: ISP router -> Wall socket -> MW 12 LAN Port
As soon as I do this it stops working (and the secondary node falls back to wireless)
Primary: ISP router -> Wall socket -> MW 12 WAN Port
Secondary: ISP router -> Qnap QSW-2104-2T -> Wall socket -> MW 12 LAN Port
The MW12's are set up in bridge mode. Any ideas of what I could do? The QNAP shouldn't be doing anything really. If it does, there's not a lot I could change about it since it's not a managed switch.
Since the room where the secondary MW12 is located doesn't get the 10GbE connection anyway and I have enough ports on my ISP's router left, I could work around this, but I'm still surprised it's causing such an issue.
* Edit: I didn't try (yet) if connecting the primary directly to the ISP router and then having a connection from the Primary's LAN Port to the QNAP which then distributes to two secondaries fixes the issue. Even if it did, it would be shame because I would need a third MW12 just for this, that otherwise has no purpose.
I too have come here from Google after having tried to set up two MW12s with wired backhaul. In other words, besides the primary node, all I want is a second MW12 to also get its connection via ethernet.
After much debugging I have found the culprit to be my (additional) switch.
When I connect the second MW12 directly to the primary one, everything works as expected.
When I connect them both to my ISP's router with built-in switch it works fine as well, whether the connection is direct or via the wall sockets.
So this works
Primary: ISP router -> Wall socket -> MW 12 WAN Port
Secondary: ISP router -> Wall socket -> MW 12 LAN Port
As soon as I do this it stops working (and the secondary node falls back to wireless)
Primary: ISP router -> Wall socket -> MW 12 WAN Port
Secondary: ISP router -> Qnap QSW-2104-2T -> Wall socket -> MW 12 LAN Port
The MW12's are set up in bridge mode. Any ideas of what I could do? The QNAP shouldn't be doing anything really. If it does, there's not a lot I could change about it since it's not a managed switch.
Since the room where the secondary MW12 is located doesn't get the 10GbE connection anyway and I have enough ports on my ISP's router left, I could work around this, but I'm still surprised it's causing such an issue.
* Edit: I didn't try (yet) if connecting the primary directly to the ISP router and then having a connection from the Primary's LAN Port to the QNAP which then distributes to two secondaries fixes the issue. Even if it did, it would be shame because I would need a third MW12 just for this, that otherwise has no purpose.