Meshed access points?

[Firegod]

Hey all

I was about to pull the trigger on some zyxel access points but stopped. Is it right that for mesh mode that one becomes a repeater? Which means degraded performance because of the hop.

I checked ubiquiti docs and seems to suggest the same.

Can access points not be run like a mesh wifi system with nodes that operate with a wired back haul?

Otherwise what is the point of access points if they can't create a seamless wifi environment that doesn't involve one or more being a repeater?

So confused.

Thanks.

 

[Firegod]

OK think I know where I've gone wrong. I was looking into, with regards to Zyxel, "Easy Mesh" where you have a repeater. I think I need to set access point up as described here - https://community.zyxel.com/en/discussion/3153/how-to-set-up-seamless-wireless-roaming

So you can do seamless roaming with the access points wired into the same switch.

 

[Firegod]

Thanks all. Yeah this is what I'm planning to do - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/network-change-up-move-to-aps.18977913/