Extending existing wireless
Mon, 02/14/2011 - 15:07
Hi I have 5 wiligears setup in a mesh. Two plugged into the network, the others extending it. However the company now wants to separate the wireless onto it's own subnet. They have a sonicwall with built in wireless, could I extend this wireless and just put all the wiligears in mesh?
There is no physical port for me to plug into to do this.
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To move a mesh network you anyway will need a mesh gateway, so mesh nodes could connect to.
As you do not have a port to plug, then additional configuration is required for mesh gateway, so it could connect to that AP.
I hope your mesh gw has two radios. First one can be dedicated to connect to AP, second one dedicated to mesh downlink operation.
In that case you need to reconfigure one radio on mesh device to station mode.
If you sent me the configuration of Wiligear radio, I would help you with setup.
The network scheme is also useful.
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Regards,
Rolandas