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Onemesh between two routers

 
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Onemesh between two routers

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-25 16:36:08

@Talaber Hello and thanks tor the coments and the your respond. Unfortunatly this does not give an ansver of my question, but in the same time I see only idea to have a newest better models, but to forget the oldest. My situation likes in yours, so I try to use this devices  they should be able to work somehow together. I hope the support team to take  consideration all this questions. 

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-27 12:02:18 - last edited 2021-11-27 12:04:11

@Kevin_Z  This feature is the only thing holding TPLink back in comparison to other brands like Asus. I understand that the delay in rolling out 1mesh b/w routers is due to fear of cannabalizing the Deco sales, but that won't happen as even other brands have such features but they still sell dedicated mesh units.

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-27 13:41:28 - last edited 2021-11-27 13:42:21

they are afraid that repeaters will not be sold

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-27 16:06:09 - last edited 2021-11-27 16:09:27

@STN Hello All,

 

I am agree with your comments and opinion.

By the way: if we connect the second router in a WAN port -to the first router in a LAN port: Then configure the second as an AP, this work. Of course the one mesh is not supported in this scenario, but the performance is OK.

Thanks for your comments.

BR

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-27 17:41:40

@Yulli 

i use WDS.

it's a stone age, but don't throw away old routers ...

...and so the whole planet is littered with last year's iPhones ;)))

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-27 18:07:38

@STN 

 

But with these new AX routers you can't even do that, they don't support WDS. There is no way to wirelessly connect two of them.

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-27 18:14:52 - last edited 2021-11-27 18:15:46

I could not connect the old TL-WR2543ND via WDS to the main AX73. But after flashing TL-WR2543ND with DD-WRT firmware, everything worked fine. I was also able to connect an Mercusys MR50G router to AX73, and - out of the box, with its native firmware. But in both cases, the bridged router did not distribute WiFi6, but older modes..

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-27 18:20:51

@STN 

 

I have older C50 that luckily supports WDS so I was able to connect it to AX23 as wireless AP. But if I had two Axs it wouldn't be possible, they removed the support for WDS on newest routers. That's what bothers me the most, mesh functionality is not that important to me.

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-27 18:23:27 - last edited 2021-11-27 18:24:18

Yes it is. AX-series does not support WDS. only older routers can be connected to them.

I would fire all their marketers ...

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Re:Onemesh between two routers
2021-11-28 09:59:49
The sad thing is that being Broadcomm based the AX10 doesn't even have OpenWrt.
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