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Cannot access resources on my network when connected to mesh.
Just purchased and setup the MS70 Mesh base and satellite. Now, when any device is connected to the Mesh SSID, that device cannot access any of the resources that are connected directly to my primar...
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- The text describes installing an MS70 (Nighthawk mesh WiFi), yet the product selected is an EAX11 WiFi extender).
This does not seem consistent. - If this is a Nighthawk MS70 system connected to an existing network, then
- When the primary network uses an IP subnet of 192.168.1.x, the default behavior for Netgear routers is to change their LAN IP subnet to 10.0.0.x
- The result is "two networks". A device connected to the primary network cannot connect with devices connected to the MS70 network because they are hidden by the MS70 Network Address Translation (NAT).
Likewise, a device connected to the MS70 will not easily detect devices connected to the primary network because they are not in the same IP subnet - The most obvious solution is to put the MS70 into Access Point (AP) mode, which will result in a single IP subnet of 192.168.1.x and all devices connected to both systems will be on the same network.
- Another solution would be to remove the primary network and use the MS70 as the only network.
Yeah, when i posted this, the interface gave me no option to choose the MS70 hardware, or anything even close to that, into the content, so i just picked whatever came up first.
Do you know where in the web interface for the MS70 i would set it to AP mode?
WJHamel wrote:
Do you know where in the web interface for the MS70 i would set it to AP mode?
on page 84 of the User Manual: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/MK73S/MR70_MS70_UM_EN.pdf