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I currently have one house with a mesh Wi-Fi system (Google Wi-Fi). I am adding a back-house that is too far to reach with just mesh access points alone.

I would like to maintain the Google Wi-Fi setup in the primary house as it. Ideally I would like to introduce one or more additional mesh-units to the back house.

Could I maintain continuity of the mesh-wifi network across both houses by using a standard wireless bridge (e.g. Ubiquiti LocoM5 Bridge Kit) between one mesh-unit in the primary house and one mesh-unit in the secondary house? (See illustration)

From what I have read, a wireless bridge is equivalent to running an Ethernet cable. If that is absolutely true, this should work. But I haven't tried it myself and lack expertise in this domain.

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Yes, this should work, as long as the Google AP has an Ethernet-port to connect a Ethernet cable (the one you want to connect to the WLAN bridge). In layman's terms an AP works more or less like a switch where you can connect wireless and wired devices (as long as it has an Ethernet port).

Make sure you don't run more then one router device or disable the routing functionality often called "bridge mode" (unless you know how to configure multiple routers on a single LAN).

Albin
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