MarkLondon
Occasional Visitor
I've bought an Asus Tuf AX5400 because my existing Linksys router MX5300 doesn't allow setting up a vpn on it. I have 3 MX5300 and two other Linksys mesh routers that came from my ISP when they installed fibre to my house 2 years ago (went from 10MBS with BT copper to 600MBS). The modem connects to one of the MX5300's, the others are connected to this one, 3 by wire (Cat 6, 7 and 8) and one wireless. So a significant amount of hardware that gives good coverage over a large house. The plan is to connect the asus to the modem and then the main MX5300 to the asus. The VPN will then be run on the asus. (will move my son's wired gaming connection to the AX5400's game port). The result of all this is that I will have both the Linksys mesh wireless (they call it velop) and the wireless signal from the asus (I tried to find a suitable non-wireless router without success).
My question: is it possible to create a combined mesh network from with the asus and Linksys? So that the linksys routers become nodes of the asus router, creating one network. Or is this impossible? If not, I'll have two network connections at least in the area where the fibre modem is located. Thanks. Asus is arriving this Saturday so will have fun playing around with it.
My question: is it possible to create a combined mesh network from with the asus and Linksys? So that the linksys routers become nodes of the asus router, creating one network. Or is this impossible? If not, I'll have two network connections at least in the area where the fibre modem is located. Thanks. Asus is arriving this Saturday so will have fun playing around with it.