I have been using a Tenda Mw6 plus 3 MW3 WiFi mesh network to provide wireless to my 3 bed house and external garage for over a year.
This works fine but since I've upgraded my Sky to KCOM 200Mbps I wanted to replace the mesh with something faster.
Having read some threads on here recommending the Huawei AX3 3 node mesh kit, I ordered and had it delivered yesterday.
The problem I have is I want to retain my Acer VR900 router as my main router as it has OpenVPN server built-in, and only need the WiFi mesh to exist on the same subnet providing just the wireless network. It seems you can set them up as AP mode but with no mesh, set up as a main router and replace the Acer, or set them up as a separate subnet and enjoy the fun of double-NATing.
I want to recreate the WiFi mesh Tenda offered on the same subnet so I tried setting the primary AX3 router up as a Static IP allocating a non-used subnet address to the WAN port and leaving the WAN port unused. I then set the AX3 LAN IP to one on my main Acer subnet. e.g. Acer is on 192.168.1.1 and primary AX3 is on 192.168.1.2 with default gateway 192.168.1.1. I disabled DHCP on the AX3 as this is provided by the Acer router.
This worked fine for wireless devices which could connect to the AX3 and get allocated IPs from the Acer. I then wanted to connect a second AX3 in a mesh but am struggling to connect to the primary. The secondary goes solid green after linking but still broadcasts its factory setup SSID so I am not convinced it has linked.
Has anyone managed to set the AX3 mesh up on the same subnet as their existing routers LAN or am I fighting a losing battle and should kick it back to Huawei ?
Thanks
This works fine but since I've upgraded my Sky to KCOM 200Mbps I wanted to replace the mesh with something faster.
Having read some threads on here recommending the Huawei AX3 3 node mesh kit, I ordered and had it delivered yesterday.
The problem I have is I want to retain my Acer VR900 router as my main router as it has OpenVPN server built-in, and only need the WiFi mesh to exist on the same subnet providing just the wireless network. It seems you can set them up as AP mode but with no mesh, set up as a main router and replace the Acer, or set them up as a separate subnet and enjoy the fun of double-NATing.
I want to recreate the WiFi mesh Tenda offered on the same subnet so I tried setting the primary AX3 router up as a Static IP allocating a non-used subnet address to the WAN port and leaving the WAN port unused. I then set the AX3 LAN IP to one on my main Acer subnet. e.g. Acer is on 192.168.1.1 and primary AX3 is on 192.168.1.2 with default gateway 192.168.1.1. I disabled DHCP on the AX3 as this is provided by the Acer router.
This worked fine for wireless devices which could connect to the AX3 and get allocated IPs from the Acer. I then wanted to connect a second AX3 in a mesh but am struggling to connect to the primary. The secondary goes solid green after linking but still broadcasts its factory setup SSID so I am not convinced it has linked.
Has anyone managed to set the AX3 mesh up on the same subnet as their existing routers LAN or am I fighting a losing battle and should kick it back to Huawei ?
Thanks