Resolved: Setup router with 5 points

vantheshark — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 20:53:55 GMT

I recently had an issue with setting up the mesh, I came accross this post and still couldn't figure out until I found the solution.

Sharing this and hope it could help someone.

First of all, I had 1 router and 2 points. I took 1 point to the shed and the wifi was not that great upstair so I decided to buy another 2nd set on ebay (1 router and 2 points). My devices are Australia version.

First I added the 2nd router to the mesh, it worked fine. Then once I attempted to add the additional point to the mesh, it failed at the last step when creating the mesh no mater how I tried with different phone, moving the point to existing working points.

I nearly gave up until I take these following steps:

- Remove the 2nd router that I setup as a point from the mesh (you can factory reset it from the app)

- Turn power off the existing points if needed

- Restart the entire network, you can do that from the primary router configuration screen

- Add the first additional point, Once added successfully, power off this point

- Add the second additional point, Once added successfully, power off this point

- Finally add the router

- Power all all offline points

- Test mesh

The Restart network is one of the key finding.
The second key step is adding the 2nd router (as the point) at the very end.

Good luck.

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