Mathieu
Regular Contributor
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.
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.