Fortinet FortiAP's- How to form a wireless mesh network to extend your WLAN

This is a how to guide for Fortinet Acces Points aka FortiAP's to form a wireless mesh connection to extend the wireless local area network (WLAN). In this scenario my FortiGate 80F is acting as the wireless controller using the built WLAN controller that comes in FortiOS. Every FortiGate has this functionality built in with no additional licensing costs to utilize this feature. My FortiAP models used are U433F and 831F. Mesh connections can be made between any model AP's, firmware just needs to be 5.0 or higher. If you need any assistance go ahead and throw a comment on this video!
Here is a link to the admin guide used in this video: docs.fortinet.com/document/fo...

[@evangelosmj]

Nice brother, i really used this case in my lab, and it works perfect. :)

[@raini_does_stuff5173]

Thanks for the tutorial. I was missing the part with the CLI, but now everything works as intended

[@AhmadSwailem]

Even i knew all steps,i watched the entire video nice work 👍

[@bandido428]

What settings do you have for long distance mesh?

[@dohoathanh]

I want to configure mesh to forti ap on fortilan cloud but I not see tab ssids to add mesh.root so do you config mesh on fortilan cloud?

[@fortialex]

Under the SSID configuration page you would turn on "mesh link". Wireless>Configuration>SSID>Add New> 5th option on the SSID config page is "mesh link" with a toggle you would flip to on