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Connecting Orbi router to a Nighthawk?
Hello. I'm sure someone may have already asked this but I could use some help. I am trying to connect my orbi router with a cat7 ethernet out to an outside building. I have the cable ran from house ou...
Real quick I was able to put the router into AP mode but then I couldn't connect to internet at all? I ended up resetting the orbi back to factory just so I could have internet. Just got done setting everything back up. Not sure what I should have done after changing it into AP mode?
mirama44 wrote:
Real quick I was able to put the router into AP mode but then I couldn't connect to internet at all? I ended up resetting the orbi back to factory just so I could have internet. Just got done setting everything back up. Not sure what I should have done after changing it into AP mode?
No, you don’t need to use AP Mode in the main router. It has to be in Router mode.
Please get the Ethernet cable working and connect it to the WAN port of Nighthawk and hopefully everything will be working after that.