Ive been fighting to get these working for a month now, dont think can even send them back.
So two HL2 - updated both to latest firmware 2..11.13
Reset, rebooted, updated tried on multiple routers.
So setup one as AP - WAN ethernet connecton back to VF router, Starlink mesh router TP link router. Tried them all.
Setup second as Extender - back and forward eventally get paired.
Connect to AP - traffic and fast internet.
Connect to Extender - no internet - or if there is slow as anything and radios in same roon, downstairs, outside… all the same.
Losing my mind over this - am I doing something wrong or just broke.
IVe tired both devices as either AP or Externder, the externder if cant get to pair I ethernet access and set the SSID and passowrd of the AP in the browser, that doesnt connect so go back to trry and pair them using button method.
Help !!! trying to get internet working across a woodland and running out of steam.
Ive been fighting to get these working for a month now, dont think can even send them back.
So two HL2 - updated both to latest firmware 2..11.13
Reset, rebooted, updated tried on multiple routers.
So setup one as AP - WAN ethernet connecton back to VF router, Starlink mesh router TP link router. Tried them all.
Setup second as Extender - back and forward eventally get paired.
Connect to AP - traffic and fast internet.
Connect to Extender - no internet - or if there is slow as anything and radios in same roon, downstairs, outside… all the same.
Losing my mind over this - am I doing something wrong or just broke.
IVe tired both devices as either AP or Externder, the externder if cant get to pair I ethernet access and set the SSID and passowrd of the AP in the browser, that doesnt connect so go back to trry and pair them using button method.
Help !!! trying to get internet working across a woodland and running out of steam.
The UK regulatory restrictions quite significantly limits the capability of your Wi-Fi HaLow link. However it should be sufficient for low data rate activities like email, browsing and so on.
When there is Internet connectivity, how slow is it? Are you able to load a site like speedtest.net and conduct a measurement? If you login to the AP UI, what does it report as the rate for the connected extender when both devices are in the same room?
The Halowlink 2 work quite well here in Belgium. Some steps are quite simple for me, but I’m very deep in Mikrotik setups, and more recently in Openwrt with GL.inet and Cudy devices, used as travel routers. The Halowlink 2 is very similar to travel routers and travel-router mesh setups, like Cudy.
Quite well … but the European regulation for 802.11 ah is really disapointing for connection range and performance. Limited power to 14 or 17dBm (not 30 dBm), transmission time down to 10% or even 2.8% of the time (360 seconds/hour for AP, 100 seconds/hour for client (extender?)). And the allowed bands in the 868MHz range … only 2MHz or even 1 MHz wide. Raw capacity when close together is 9Mbps, effective throughput is 3Mbps, for the allowed time. I do use the listen-before-transmit option , which drops the throuhput some 10%, but should avoid the strict transmit time limit.
Give the extender a different IP address from the AP so you can access both over the halow link. If not already set different, you still have the ethernet port over the USB connection to the Halowlink device to make the change. (Very nice feature!)
I hoped to use my XIO seeed Studio “ESP32S3-halow transceiver” kits as client devices , but this FGH100M-H chip is US frequencies only, and my Halowlink 2 is the EU version, locked in the EU frequencies. So no functional setup with these. And the EU Halowlink2 does not support mesh setup as mentioned in the documentation. So the2 Halowlink2 EU cannot even beat the 2 Cudy TR1200 cheap travel routers. (10 times less expensive)
Thanks for sharing the EU-side experience — that regulatory bit catches a lot of people out. The HaLowLink 2 can feel very different depending on region because the EU limits make it much more of a low-throughput/longer-reach link than a “Wi-Fi replacement” in the usual sense.
The separate management IP point is a good one too. If both units are reachable over the link it makes troubleshooting much less painful, especially checking association rate, signal, and whether the extender is actually bridging/routing as expected. For Stewart’s case I’d definitely first confirm both units have unique IPs, then test with the units close together and look at the AP’s reported rate for the extender before worrying about distance or placement.