How to Connect Your Adtran Mesh Unit

How to Connect Your Adtran Mesh Unit

★ Connecting a Mesh Unit

Our Adtran Mesh Units (also known as boosters, or extenders) are designed to ensure your home has seamless Wi-Fi coverage. These devices help eliminate dead zones and provide a consistent, high-speed connection for all your devices. With easy setup and intelligent self-optimization, the Mesh units ensure a smooth experience during setup and for your daily streaming, gaming, and browsing. They adapt to your network needs, assisting in providing reliable connectivity no matter where you are in your home.

⋆ Mesh Setup Tips and Suggestions

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Before you finalize your placement, Please review these 3 quick tips for placing mesh units to ensure you will have a good experience ⬇

If you have our 5G or 8G plan, please review the ☆ Adtran 8632 Mesh section first as the steps are different, then review these tips for finalizing the placement.

  1. ​Your Mesh Extender should be close to halfway between your router and the furthest location where the WiFi coverage is needed for the fastest speeds and best connection.
    1. Generally a maximum of 30-40 feet from the main router. If it's placed farther away, devices connected to the Mesh Extender may experience slower WiFi speeds. (even though your device may be showing a strong WiFi connection)
  2. Ensure that dense materials aren't blocking your WiFi signal. Materials like metal, concrete, glass/mirrors, plaster walls, and dense wood can diminish the signal strength.
  3. Ensure the mesh unit is in the open and not inside a cabinet or drawer, or near a microwave or other large appliance


☆ Adtran 841 Mesh

Adtran 841
  1. Connect the unit to a power outlet
  2. As long as the unit is in range of the main router, it will automatically find and connect to the network .
    1. These mesh units are plug-and-play, meaning there is no configuration you need to do on your part! This may take upwards of 5-10 minutes to connect.
  3. If you would like to hardwire the unit to your main router, plug an ethernet cable from your one of your router's LAN ports, to the WAN port on the mesh.
  4. Make sure to review the ⋆ Mesh Setup Tips and Suggestions above and verify that you have found a good place to put your mesh unit


    If you would like to review your network and do not have the HomePass by Plume app, you may download it here: Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

    ☆ Adtran 8632 Mesh 

    Adtran 8632


    When connecting our 8632 mesh, the steps will vary from our 841 mesh.
    1. To add the mesh, begin by plugging an Ethernet cable from a LAN port on the Router (Adtran 8633) into the WAN port on the mesh. 
    2. Power on the mesh. 
    3. This can take up to 5 minutes for each Mesh device.  Wait until the LED on the Extender is solid white. 
    4. You are now free to move the extender to an optimal location.


    If you would like to review your network and do not have the Intellifi by Adtran app, you may download it here: Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
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    If you run into any issues please don't hesitate to reach out by speaking with us at chat.ideatek.com, by phone at (620) 543-5555, by submitting a ticket at help@ideatek.com, or by speaking with your previous support agent. We are happy to help!

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