Operation Manual

Chapter 7 Wireless
VMG/XMG Series User’s Guide
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• One Connect will be enabled and grayed out automatically. See Section 17.1 on page 259 for more
information about One Connect. One Connect is used for the communication between the Zyxel
Device and Multy-Pro-supported extenders for the setup of a MESH network.
• The SSID and WiFi password of the main 2.4 GHz wireless network will be copied to the main 5 GHz
wireless network.
• If users change the modes of a Multy-Pro supported extender, users need to wait until it finishes
booting before creating a MESH network with a controller, a Zyxel router.
See the steps below on how to set up a MESH network. The setup could take you 30 minutes.
Configurations on a Multy-Pro-Supported Extender(s)
1 Prepare a Multy-Pro-supported extender(s) from Zyxel.
The following table lists the Multy-Pro-supported extenders from Zyxel at the time of writing.
2 If the Multy-Pro-supported extender is in repeater mode, enable the wireless LAN. See your Multy-Pro-
supported extender’s UG for how to enable the wireless LAN.
3 If the Multy-Pro-supported extender is in AP mode, connect it to the Zyxel Device using an Ethernet
cable.
4 Turn on the Multy-Pro-supported extender.
5 Enable Zyxel MESH in the Web Configurator. See your Multy-Pro-supported extender’s UG for how to
enable Zyxel MESH.
Configurations on the Zyxel Device
1 If the Multy-Pro-supported extender is in repeater mode, enable the WiFi. See Section 7.2 on page 143 or
Section 3.5 on page 67 for more information on enabling the WiFi.
2 Enable Zyxel MESH in the Network > Wireless > MESH screen.
3 Press the WPS button for more than five seconds on the Zyxel Device.
Or
Click Add Extender in the Multy Pro App. Install from Google Play or the Apple App store.
The following figure shows the Multy Pro application. Device Z is the Zyxel Device. Device A is a Multy-
Pro-supported extender in AP mode. Devices B and C are Multy-Pro-supported extenders in repeater
Mode.
The following figure shows the Multy Pro application. Device Z is the controller, the Zyxel Device. Device
A is a Multy-Pro-supported extender in AP mode. Devices B and C are Multy-Pro-supported extenders in
repeater Mode.
Table 46 Multy-Pro-Supported Extenders from Zyxel
MODELS
WAP6804
WAP6906
WAP7205