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Nighthawk App and Access Points
I have the following setup: R7000 router (192.168.1.1) at one end of the house, another R7000 as access point (192.168.1.100) at the other end. Both are running firmware 1.0.9.34.
When I am at ...
Maybe remote management would fix this, but it seems to be too much for this problem.
This morning a thought struck me: what if the access point is a non-Netgear router? I had an old Asus RT51U somewhere. I found it, updated the firmware and set it up as the access point. And guess what – now the Nighthawk App connects to the main router, wherever I am in the house! Which means I do not have to get up from my favourite chair to use the Nighthawk App…
So my “problem” is a follows:
When the Nighthawk App connects to the access point, in my case an R7000 which is a Nighthawk App enabled router, it thinks that this is the router. I can see two ways in which Netgear could fix this:
- Check if the router is set up in access point mode. If so, continue to the main router
- Give the user the opportunity to specify the IP address of the router
For now, I will use the RT51 as my access point.
