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Mathieu

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Good evening

I have set up an AC87U as Access Point, connected by cable (WAN port) to the main router. I configured it using the default AP setup mode offered by the GUI.
The wireless (distinct SSIDs from main) is working fine, and so is one wired client. Now, as I tried to plug in a second client, I experienced connectivity issues: client intermittently losing connection.
Browsing through this fine forum, I read that @ColinTaylor and others have reported that, although in theory the LAN ports of an AP are disabled, in practice they are operational. I can certainly confirm I have one working port.
I appreciate my connectivity issue could be down to many other factors, but would like to ask the following:
If one hoped to keep using the LAN ports of their AP, would it be fine to just use the default AP config, or should they configure the AP as a 'wireless router' and manually adjust its settings? If the latter, what in addition to disabling DHCP should be looked at?

Many thanks, and keep safe.
 
No, I had not.
Thank you for the link (by Mr Higgins himself, back in '08, now we're talking!) :)
I will also do the exercise you suggest - and refresh my combinatorics-: 4 ports, 2 clients. Hmmm... That was way before Tim's post...
Cheers
 

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