I am bit confused on use of terms Access Point mode and Bridge mode. I have 3 Asus wifi routers (RT-AC5300, RT-AC66U, and RT-AC1200) The 1200 and 66U are configured as APs and hard wired via an ethernet connection. They both put out the same SSID name as the AC5300 wifi network. I set this up for a seamless and strong wifi connections for phones and laptops moving throughout the house. The 5300 is not strong enough to reach all parts of the house with its signal and definitely won't beam a fast enough signal to stream throughout the house . The current setup has works fine except I started losing connectivity for some of my Sonos wifi speakers. The speakers were all connected via a Sonos Boost forming its own network. What is happening is if the system goes down and then comes back up some of the speakers will connect to one of the AP routers signal instead of the network formed by the boost.
Sonos is telling me the only way to prevent this from happening is to put the AP routers in bridge mode. But based on my limited knowledge of AP and Bridge I don't think this will work. As I understand it a router in bridge mode only rebroadcast the main routers wifi signal. As I said the signal is too week in some parts of the house, in addition whatever signal it does pick up will be reduced by half.
Am I missing something here? Is there any way to have the Bridged routers transmit the main routers wifi signal through a hardwired connection? In other words plugged in to the same network. Stupid question?
Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Carmine
Sonos is telling me the only way to prevent this from happening is to put the AP routers in bridge mode. But based on my limited knowledge of AP and Bridge I don't think this will work. As I understand it a router in bridge mode only rebroadcast the main routers wifi signal. As I said the signal is too week in some parts of the house, in addition whatever signal it does pick up will be reduced by half.
Am I missing something here? Is there any way to have the Bridged routers transmit the main routers wifi signal through a hardwired connection? In other words plugged in to the same network. Stupid question?
Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Carmine