TP Link Deco Satellite Setup

[Witterings]

I've attached a pic as well .... My Non mesh router is in one room and has an ethernet connection to a switch in another room and then ethernet to my main Deco BE65 set up as an access point in the area the strongest WiFi signal is required.

I want to add a satellite in the room where my router is as it's struggling to get a decent WiFi signal in there, it doesn't need to be that fast an I sit right next to it so looking at getting maybe a Deco X20 to put in there.

Can I take an ethernet into the same router as the BE65 (have used a yellow line on drawing to show where it'd be in the chain) and set it up as an access point and will that work as part of the same mesh network or do I have to wireless backhaul the X20 to the BE65 and us it as a range extender?

I appreciated it'd probably be best to take another ethernet out from the BE65 straight to the X20 but unfortunately that's not possible.

Any help, much appreciated.

 

[Intel_man]

Your non mesh router not have wifi functions?

What's the router model # and switch model #? Your sketch should work under normal circumstances.

 

[Witterings]

Your non mesh router not have wifi functions?

What's the router model # and switch model #? Your sketch should work under normal circumstances.

The router does have a mesh function but it's a Nokia router and is only compatible with their nodes / satellites, I do have 2 of these but please trust me when I say they have issues and aren't compatible with other things so have long since given up trying to get them to work and they're "locked" by the provider to a degree.

I have tried leaving the routers WiFi / SSID enabled and switching as I move from one area to the other but I think it's causing some clashes on the network but it'd be better to have everything on the one mesh network than different ones.