A:Answer I'm not sure where others are getting their information, but here are the answers to your questions:
- You have to have Internet access in order to get any network packets outside of this network. So, strictly-speaking, if you have no Internet access, the network can still operate.
- Yes, it has built-in DHCP; for the other commenter, it would have to have DHCP, else it could never provision devices on the network!
- Yes, the DHCP function works without Internet access (this is an internal network function; it has no basis for outside access)
- Yes, computers connected to the mesh wifi network can communicate with each other without an Internet connect