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R6120 Access Point setup and Nighthawk app
I configured my R6120 as an access point and would like to access it with the Nighthawk app. The Wifi 2.4 / 5 is great but the Nighthawk app can not connect. In the web interface of the R6120 I can n...
mmiii wrote:
I configured my R6120 as an access point and would like to access it with the Nighthawk app.
This explains what you lose by going into AP mode:
Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support
To access an AP device you need to work out what IP address it has acquired from your router. Then you can point a browser at that IP address.
This is a bogus answer. Your competitors that provide mesh networks understand how to control the main DHCP server on the network through a single control app. The only reason I have an access point on my network is because a single R6900 router was not powerful enough to supply access to my whole house. Now I want to manage my attached devices through the Nighthawk app and you tell me that if the app connects via the acess point it cannot work out the main router? Please, that's lazy engineering. Please log a bug and get this fixed.
gverratti wrote:This is a bogus answer.
This is a community, nobody from Netgear has answered here.
gverratti wrote:Your competitors that provide mesh networks understand how to control the main DHCP server on the network through a single control app.
Neither your Nigthawk router nor the wireless AP are promoted to be a mesh system - in fact a term massively abused by the consumer electronics industry.
gverratti wrote:Now I want to manage my attached devices through the Nighthawk app and you tell me that if the app connects via the acess point it cannot work out the main router?
Not sure where this was told - except in a comment by the original poster. Yes, poor design and engineering of the router configured as a pure L2 device (WLAN AP) does "capture" the discovery or the connection to the router. There are many more reasons why I'm always suggesting to use "real" wireless AP (e.g. Netgear WAC505/510/540) instead of poorly converted routers which barely make good APs.
