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LB1120 and Nighthawk X6S dont work together
I just got a LB1120 and put a verizon sim card in it.
I set it to bridge mode
I plug in my computer to the ethernet port and works fine. I plug in my phone to the ethernet port (using usb c to ethernet adapter) and works fine.
Now I plug in the LB1120 to my Nighthawk X6S (r7960p) router on the internet port and I am unable to do any uploads.
Any wired or wireless device attached to the Nighthawk fails to do uploads but is able to complete download speed tests.
I reset both the LB1120 and the Nighthawk back to factory settings and went through the setup and still unable to upload.
But here is what leds me to believe this is an issue with the Nighthawk and not the LB1120 modem.
I have an old Netgear N600 wireless router and I plug in the LB1120 modem to the internet port and it works perfect. All wired and wireless connections to the N600 can complete both downloads and uploads. The N600 was reset to factory before plugging in the modem.
The LB1120 is always set to bridge mode (i did try router once and did not work either on the Nighthawk)
There has to be a setting on the Nighthawk that is causing an issue with the LB1120 but I am not knowledgeable enough to know how to fix this and be able to do downloads AND uploads
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Konrad999 wrote:
The LB1120 is always set to bridge mode (i did try router once and did not work either on the Nighthawk)
Did you try it with the R7960P in wireless access point (AP) mode and the LB1120 as the router?
Konrad999 wrote:
I have an old Netgear N600 wireless router and I plug in the LB1120 modem to the internet port and it works perfect.
Which model was that? Its mode?
What firmware version do you have on the R7960P?
A number is more useful than "the latest". (It may not be by the time people read this.) There can also be newer versions, or "hot fixes", that do not show up if you check for new firmware in the browser interface.
Konrad999 wrote:
Now I plug in the LB1120 to my Nighthawk X6S (r7960p) router on the internet port and I am unable to do any uploads.
Uploads from what? Any chance that the problem isn't with the modem and router combination but with the device doing the uploads? Sounds unlikely, but worth ruling out.
I want to thank you. I finally was able to fix my issues.
The moment you mention "set your router as an access point and set the modem as the router" I immediately made the changes
I reset the modem one more time and plug in the X6S to the modem but again as an access point, it did not work SO I plugged in the N600 back into the modem and it works as I previously tested it. THEN I plugged into the X6S directly into the N600. I turned off wireless on the N600 and enabled wireless on the X6S and it works fantastic. The X6S continues to be an access point now
My wireless devices still pick the great signal from the X6S and my wired devices are plugged into the N600 and all work great plus now I have more ethernet ports for the future.
This is not the cleanest setup but it works
Thanks again
Konrad999 wrote:
I reset the modem one more time and plug in the X6S to the modem but again as an access point, it did not work
This does not convince me that you put the R7960P into access point mode as the manual describes it.
AP mode is not a case of simply plugging the R7960P into the modem. You do the AP thing in the graphical user interface (GUI) on the R7960P. But there is an important wrinkle. You have to do things in the right order.
Be sure to restart your network in this sequence:- Turn off and unplug modem.
- Turn off router and computers.
- Plug in and turn on modem. Wait 2 minutes for it to connect.
- Turn on the router and wait 2 minutes for it to connect.
- Turn on computers and rest of network.
We still don't know what this N600 might be. (Like X6S it is a wifi speed indicator and not a modem number, with hundreds of N600s and dozens of X6S devices out there.)
We do know that the N600 is old. (They stopped making them years ago.) Which means that it may not have the GUI approach to turning it into an AP and you won't find instructions in the the manual for the device. So we have no idea what mode the old router is in.
