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XR500 in Bridge mode
Hi Everyone I am getting horribly confused reading the forums on bridge mode vs repeater mode vs AP mode. I have situation where I own an XR500 gaming router (with DumaOS) that used to be connected...
Thanks for posting!
Unforunately, you won't be able to connect the XR to the fibre router wirelessly I'm afraid, there needs to be a physical cable from the WAN port to the LAN port of the fibre router.
One thing you could do would be to connect the XR500 to the fibre router via an ethernet cable, then have your Wi-Fi mesh connected to a XR500 LAN port as well as the Apple devices etc. This way, DumaOS would still have full control over the traffic on the network and you'll be able to use it for all it's features.
Thank you for the help. Maybe i will sell the router. What would I need to buy then , a repeater, a bridge or an AP?
You could use powerline adapters to connect your XR500 to the fibre router, however doing this would mean that QoS wouldn't be effective, though you'd still get use of Geo-filter!