Using WiFi Adapter in Firewalla Gold with AP7?

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Richard Sun

• February 09, 2025 20:18

Hi, is there any strange side effects of trying to use the USB WiFi adaptor in the Firewalla Gold with the AP7 as another SSID?  

So far I'm been reasonably satisfied with the mesh AP7's, but I found that a bunch of my devices always show a "fair" signal and I'm curious if I create another SSID for those "fair" devices to connect to (which are in proximity of my Firewalla Gold) if that'll work better for me.  

Does the "signal strength" also show up with using the USB WiFi or it's only for the one that connect to the AP7's?

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  Firewalla

  • February 10, 2025 00:42

  Are you talking about the WiFi SD? then unlikely that unit is much weaker as an AP (it was primarily built for a secondary WAN) If you have the AP7, you are much better using that instead. 

   

   

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  DanM

  • February 10, 2025 01:51

  Please note, when I first installed my AP7, the WiFi SD in my FWGP was seen as another Wi-Fi on same network and interfered with a proper AP7 pairing. Had to remove the FW USB WiFi dongle.

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  Firewalla

  • February 10, 2025 04:16

  @DanM, you don't need to remove the WiFi Dongle, you just need to turn off the WiFi dongle LAN configuration. It can still be used as a secondary WAN. 

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  DanM

  • February 10, 2025 09:49

  Thank you, that’s good to know. I misinterpreted the direction

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  Troy Dampier

  • March 04, 2025 13:23

  I asked about this also - and would like to have SD-WIFI access back so that it can be used for management in case the AP7 is having issues. Will this ever be re-enabled?

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  DanM

  • March 04, 2025 17:26

  @ Troy, see response from Firewalla above my response, sounds like you can use the FW WiFi Dongle. I have not circled back to test it yet.

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  Troy Dampier

  • March 04, 2025 18:36

  So has anyone got it to work yet as that was my go-to WiFi for admin of the firewalla in case there were other issues.  As you can only do so much in bluetooth and some of the changes require WiFi.  So if I can add it back in I would like to.  Again I never used it for other clients just Firewalla Mgmt only.

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