Hi,
I’ve been working on a network extension setup where we need to bounce around a hill.
My initial setup was a mesh system A→B→C however due to the 50% bandwidth loss this didn’t end up having a high enough data rate at point C.
My next change was to add an extra device so we could link 2 dedicated p2p pairs A→B C→D this however was difficult to setup and the way I ended up getting it stable still seemed to have performance issues.
Do you have any advise or guide to step through setting up a paired link like this? In a range of setups that I understood should work produced no connectivity even when the home page uplink on device C confirmed connection.
Many thanks for your help.
As long as everything is bridged, the main advice with a paired setup like that would be:
- choosing a different channel for C→D vs A→B so they don’t interfere (e.g. in the US, choosing 12 and 44 may be best)
- making sure B and C are not too close to each other for best results (TBH I don’t know how big the effect would be here, but people inside the company said ‘don’t do that’ when I started mumbling about a dual radio setup in the same device)
Then, an ethernet cable between B and C should be fine. Just make sure C is in ‘share with upstream network’ mode, then connect the WAN port of C to any of the ports of B.
Can you give us any information about the sort of performance/stability issues you’re seeing?
Thanks James,
I thought that would work too initially however any method I used in connecting unit B to the WAN of unit C showed that the unit had an uplink but any connection downstream didn’t get connectivity. I got it working eventually by bridging LAN to LAN with Ethernet however the link from C to D still had a significant performance hit beyond normal radio interference.
Would there potentially be a conflict by having units A and C both in AP mode? Changing the default IP on unit C would be a relatively simple solution if that was the cause.
I’m finding that a dual band setup will be critical in maintaining usable bandwidth over long distances, getting the initial link positioning right isn’t always possible and a lot of building types are problematic with RF transmission. I would think for an integrated dual band setup the transmitters need at least a 16cm spacing which would be tricky in a small unit like the HalowLink1.