18/04/2021, 02:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 18/04/2021, 02:28 PM by CrowInTheSticks.
Edit Reason: new info
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I have the MW3 mesh APs. Thanks for this post as it pointed me in the right direction.
Some of my thoughts in case they can be of help to anyone googles in here like I did.
I have only spent 1/2 an hour playing with these so this is by no means in deapth.
The default configuration for the primary Ap is to act as a router. It creates a seperate network within your network.
Network was 192.168.5.0/24. I would imagine you can access a NAS connected to your ISP router but a wired device couldn't access a wireless one.
Many cheap broadband (as in no modem, the WAN is ethernet) routers have a router mode and an access point mode.
Router mode is simalar to DHCP (or Static IP address) in the Nova. Access point mode is the same as Bridge.
(DHCP is like a second ISP router, bridge is like a network cable.)
In bridge mode wireless clients on the Nova APs will get dished an IP from your main DHCP server (probably your ISPs router).
Each Nova will have an IP in your local network.
This probably means in bridge mode you CAN connect any network port of a secondary mesh node to the LAN port of the ISP router or any network switch attached to the ISP router.
I have been running the primary and one secondary connected to the switch and one wirelessly backhauled for several hours now and all seems ok.
A wifi scan shows the 5g MAC addresses for the 2 wired APs and not the wifi meshed one. I guess using the ethernet backhaul free's the 5g on the secondary to be used by wifi clients.
If meshed wirelessly the 5g must be reserved for the backhaul.
Setup:
Setup as per quick setup.
Change to bridge mode Settings> Internet settings > Connection Type > Bridge.
Once app reports all mesh aps connected, unplug secondary and connect LAN port to LAN switch.
(LAN or WAN/LAN port seems to work)
Power on secondary.
repeat as needed for other secondaries
Some of my thoughts in case they can be of help to anyone googles in here like I did.
I have only spent 1/2 an hour playing with these so this is by no means in deapth.
The default configuration for the primary Ap is to act as a router. It creates a seperate network within your network.
Network was 192.168.5.0/24. I would imagine you can access a NAS connected to your ISP router but a wired device couldn't access a wireless one.
Many cheap broadband (as in no modem, the WAN is ethernet) routers have a router mode and an access point mode.
Router mode is simalar to DHCP (or Static IP address) in the Nova. Access point mode is the same as Bridge.
(DHCP is like a second ISP router, bridge is like a network cable.)
In bridge mode wireless clients on the Nova APs will get dished an IP from your main DHCP server (probably your ISPs router).
Each Nova will have an IP in your local network.
This probably means in bridge mode you CAN connect any network port of a secondary mesh node to the LAN port of the ISP router or any network switch attached to the ISP router.
I have been running the primary and one secondary connected to the switch and one wirelessly backhauled for several hours now and all seems ok.
A wifi scan shows the 5g MAC addresses for the 2 wired APs and not the wifi meshed one. I guess using the ethernet backhaul free's the 5g on the secondary to be used by wifi clients.
If meshed wirelessly the 5g must be reserved for the backhaul.
Setup:
Setup as per quick setup.
Change to bridge mode Settings> Internet settings > Connection Type > Bridge.
Once app reports all mesh aps connected, unplug secondary and connect LAN port to LAN switch.
(LAN or WAN/LAN port seems to work)
Power on secondary.
repeat as needed for other secondaries