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WAC730 can't change default PW & not found by WC7500
Hi, I am trying to add a WAC730 as a controlled AP of my WC7500. The WC currently controls 4 WAC720 and 1 WAC730. I have plenty of licenses left and I am swapping out one of the 720's for the 730. ...
I ended up using the procedure presented at https://community.netgear.com/t5/Business-Wireless/Recovering-WAC720-WAC730-access-point-via-the-console-port/td-p/1490461 to flash the firmware to 3.6.12, which in turn allowed the WAC730 to be discovered by the WC7500. All is good!
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I can add that after a hard reset, the IP address does NOT revert to 192.168.0.100, instead, the DHCP settings are retained and the AP gets assigned the same IP address.
I ended up using the procedure presented at https://community.netgear.com/t5/Business-Wireless/Recovering-WAC720-WAC730-access-point-via-the-console-port/td-p/1490461 to flash the firmware to 3.6.12, which in turn allowed the WAC730 to be discovered by the WC7500. All is good!
Thank you for providing this forum!
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