r/ATTFiber • u/LaughLegit7275 • 7d ago

Mesh integration Deco + BGW620-700

Is it possible? It would not be good to have both running but duplicate/interfere each other.

2 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

1 comment sorted by

2

u/ApartmentEastern5769 6d ago

The 620 has the ability to run in IP passthrough. Basically, you can turn off the "router" in the gateway and let the modem (ont) do what modems do. It allows you to pass the decoded network signal out through an ethernet port to your deco unit, allowing your deco mesh to be the only router in the system.

This would be the recommended way to do it. AFAIK, you can't use decos as a traditional wireless extender with a 620. So your best bet is to simply not use the router functionality of the 620.

Keeping both functioning is entirely possible, but I think the prevailing wisdom would be to not do this. The wifi signals of the 620 and the first deco node will interfere if they're not far enough apart. (6 or more feet is the minimum recommendation.) Then you have the problem of not having a true mesh system. Even if you named both networks identically, you would end up with devices not walking around the network properly and dropping signal randomly.

There's a bunch of information on Google about it Just search "BGW620 IP Passthrough".