Does the HalowLink1 support using multiple extenders with wireless backhaul/daisy chaining?
Router/DHCP Server <> HalowLink1 AP Mode <900 MHz> HalowLink1 Extender Mode <900 MHz> HalowLink1 Extender Mode Client Device
The intended application is a large manufacturing environment where IoT sensors are sometimes behind rows of metal machinery, thick concrete walls, metal walls etc. up to 300m from where we could place the centralized access point. It is a low bandwidth application. Extenders on the fringe may need to wireless back to a different Extender before reaching the Access Point. Is this supported?
Replying to my own topic. Found where this is described in the documentation:
2.3.3 HaLow Mode - 802.11s Mesh and EasyMesh
By default, your device is configured as an Access Point. Because of HaLow’s incredible range, for most purposes this is sufficient. However, to achieve even more range, or if there are physical barriers between devices, it’s possible to use multiple HaLowLinks to create a mesh.
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Hi @burkem10
A mesh is definitely what you’re looking for here. Set up one of your HaLowLink1s into an 802.11s mesh mode and then pair other HaLowLink1s as you normally would via the button.
See How to configure 802.11s Mesh (App Note 32) - %%网站名称 for more detailed info.
Note that there is a bug fix for the 802.11s mesh which I think you will benefit from in a release which just went up this week! Please navigate to the upgrade page for all of your HaLowLink1s to update to 2.7.6.
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Thanks for the reply. The first thing I did was upgrade the software on each unit. It’d be nice if it was possible to initiate upgrades for all connected units at the same time.
I’ve been testing range and performance; these commands have been helpful especially when validating if my traffic has more than one hop:
iw dev wlan0 mpath dump
iw dev wlan0 mpath station dump
iw dev wlan0 mpath get
I included that info just in case anyone else searches this. My extenders use wlan0 while the mesh extender uses wlan1.
Are there any plans to develop a GUI feature that monitors the health/status of the mesh network? Perhaps using information from the above commands and others.
