Using the third Deco X50 as a WiFi relay (backhaul)
Hello,
I bought a pack with 3 Deco X50 units and I'm really satisfied with the quality of the product and the overall performance of the WiFi.
As I have a 128 m² house on one floor, two units are really enough for me for getting complete WiFi coverage.
However, as you know, X50 doesn't have a dedicated WiFi band for wireless backhaul so the 5 GHz band is shared for inter-units connexion and devices.
When I connect my desktop PC with an Ethernet cable to the RJ45 port of the second unit, I got nearly the double bandwidth than the WiFi 6 when sharing files over my home network between the PC and my NAS. In my opinion, this is because when the PC is connected with cable, all the 5 GHz band can be allowed to backhaul need.
As I don't use the third unit, this is my goal :
The main unit is connected to the internet source in the living room
The second unit is connected to the main one through WiFi
The third one is wired to the second one using a cable
My idea is to use the second unit only to establish a gate between the main unit (through WiFi) and the third one (by cable).
So how may I disable the second unit from broadcasting the SSID or, in other words, to prevent devices to connect to and to enforce them to connect only to the third one using WiFi?
Thanks !