Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN) in which one network hardware devices includes multiple radios. A processing device of a first network hardware device scans a channel of the first radio for access point (AP) beacon frames that each contains information identifying a mesh network device in a WMN. The processing device creates a list of a plurality of mesh network device from the AP beacon frames and transmits a location probe transmission by each of the plurality of radios one sector at a time in a neighbor discovery process. The processing device receives metrics of the location probe transmissions received by the plurality of mesh network devices in the neighbor discovery process and configures each of the plurality of radios to communicate with one of a set of neighbor mesh network devices using the metrics in a neighbor selection process.