My first Linksys firmware upgrade went perfectly for me.

However I am told that there can be no WIFi access point now. I thought I read that it is possible but I can find no article about that.

Having wireless access to the node is important when a LAN connection is not practical.

Thanks

Ted, WB2LOU...an entry level nubee!!

So the issue with this is that a node can only operate in one mode at a time.

The wireless interface on the Linksys is dedicated to the mode you choose.  Normaly this will be MESH which allows the node to be used as a mesh device.

To provide services as an Access Point a different mode exists in the interface. Normally you will put a Mesh Node and an Access point together if you want wifi access locally to the mesh (Make sure the wifi device is on a channel as far away from the mesh node as possible)

Even if a node could run an Access Point and a Mesh Node at once you would have bigger issues of RF pollution.   The mesh node antennas would likely be outdoors, aimed away from the users (towards another mesh node) and any time you wanted to send a packet to another local laptop it would have to flood the RF link for many miles for a packet to just go a few feet.  This just doesn't make good RF sense. It would be similar to using 80m 100w HF rig to talk 200 feet away when VHF/UHF handheld would do much better

Thanks Conrad. I believe I understand now. We have a small group here and we are all learning as we go. I may be back asking more questions soon.

Ted WB2LOU

State College, PA