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Nighthawk MR60 - Not providing internet through LAN
Hello, I'm using a pair of MR60 Nighthawk Mesh WiFi 6 Router in my home. My main router connects to a hub and then to my PC and is wirelessly meshed with the secondary router. Intermittently my ...
deeebo wrote:
I'm using a pair of MR60 Nighthawk Mesh WiFi 6 Router in my home. My main router connects to a hub and then to my PC and is wirelessly meshed with the secondary router.
That is a recipe for chaos. Two routers are a bad idea.
Two routers on your network can cause headaches. For example, you can end up with local address problems. Among other things, the other router can misdirect addresses that the Netgear router usually handles, such as routerlogin.net or the usual IP address for a router, 192.168.1.1.
This explains some of the other drawbacks.
What is Double NAT? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Unless you have specific reasons for using two routers – to create two separate networks for example – it is often easier to use just one router and then to set up the second router as a wifi access point. Netgear advises this, as does just about every site you will visit.
Put your second MR60 into AP mode and see what happens.
Out of interest, what is the modem/ONT/gateway that sits between the MR60 and the Internet? That can also get in the way.