Fortinet FortiAP's- How to form a wireless mesh network to extend your WLAN

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This is a how to guide for Fortinet Acces Points aka FortiAP's to form a wireless mesh connection to extend the wireless local area network (WLAN). In this scenario my FortiGate 80F is acting as the wireless controller using the built WLAN controller that comes in FortiOS. Every FortiGate has this functionality built in with no additional licensing costs to utilize this feature. My FortiAP models used are U433F and 831F. Mesh connections can be made between any model AP's, firmware just needs to be 5.0 or higher. If you need any assistance go ahead and throw a comment on this video!
Here is a link to the admin guide used in this video: docs.fortinet....

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@christopherdesouza7339 16 дней назад

Had conversation with Fortinet. They said that 2.4Ghz is recommended for backhaul as it travels better the 5Ghz. Specially through objects and structure. They found that majority of APs in a Mesh configuration are in different rooms/areas and rare that they are in same open space. As users are connecting in same space to 1 of the APs then don't have to worry about going through walls as an example has worked out better. After change we notice better performance for sure on non cabled APs using mesh. Again it would depend on situation... A house with drywall instead of concreate filled block walls in office spaces probably better to go opposite or something like large venue halls, gyms definitely want to go backplane on 5Ghz.

@raini_does_stuff5173 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the tutorial. I was missing the part with the CLI, but now everything works as intended

@AhmadSwailem Год назад

Even i knew all steps,i watched the entire video nice work 👍

@evangelosmj 2 месяца назад

Nice brother, i really used this case in my lab, and it works perfect. :)

@aliabdulrazaq3852 Месяц назад

can you a fortiswitch behind the leaf AP and authorize it?

@bandido428 3 месяца назад

What settings do you have for long distance mesh?

@dohoathanh 10 месяцев назад

I want to configure mesh to forti ap on fortilan cloud but I not see tab ssids to add mesh.root so do you config mesh on fortilan cloud?

@fortialex 10 месяцев назад

Under the SSID configuration page you would turn on "mesh link". Wireless>Configuration>SSID>Add New> 5th option on the SSID config page is "mesh link" with a toggle you would flip to on