Hello,

I have a question about the TP-Link Deco mesh network. I would like to create a local network, with 3 devices, which are each connected with an ethernet cable to a separate node. I want these nodes to be connected to each other, however, there is no internet available at the place, where I am using it. I can use the internet to initially set it up, however, after this it should work in an environment without any internet? Is this also possible with these nodes? I was a bit confused, since I read that the node is deemed offline if there is no internet acces? or I might have misunderstood. 

If this is possible, I would have two other questions:

- Is there still without internet acces a main node? If this main node would break down, will another node take over?

- does each node get a separate ip-address on the network?

Thank you in advance!