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Can Orbi be put into bridged mode?
Hey All, I currently have Netgear Nighthawk X8 Wireless Router with 5 x eeros (set to bridged mode - to avoid double NAT - so essentialy they act as wireless access points). I have it setup t...
nickfloyd wrote:Hey All,
So my questions are:
- Can the Orbi be put into bridged mode so that I can continue using my Nighthawk with link aggregation for my NAS
- Is there a better way to set up my network? Like putting the Nighthawk into AP mode - I think I ran into issues with that with the eero because I could not change the default gateway so I effectively had 2 networks 192.168.1.x and 192.168.0.x (bad)
Any help / thougths would be appriciated!
Thanks!
answers
Q1 . yes the orbi has AP mode for its router so you can run it the way you want to
q2. . no , use the Nighthawk as a router and the orbi in ap mode with its sat as the Nighthawk is a better router with more features
pete
nickfloyd wrote:Hey All,
So my questions are:
- Can the Orbi be put into bridged mode so that I can continue using my Nighthawk with link aggregation for my NAS
- Is there a better way to set up my network? Like putting the Nighthawk into AP mode - I think I ran into issues with that with the eero because I could not change the default gateway so I effectively had 2 networks 192.168.1.x and 192.168.0.x (bad)
Any help / thougths would be appriciated!
Thanks!
answers
Q1 . yes the orbi has AP mode for its router so you can run it the way you want to
q2. . no , use the Nighthawk as a router and the orbi in ap mode with its sat as the Nighthawk is a better router with more features
pete