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RAX120 in Bridge Mode on Orbi AX System
I have a RAX120 but it doesn't quite cover my house/patio as well as I'd like. Not crazy about extenders - especially after my experience with that garbage EAX80 - and hardwiring is not pratical/eas...
Ok got me curious. I dragged out my R7800 and it does connect to my RBR850 in AP mode:
The 88.78 address is the static IP address I configured on the R7800.
This is non stock R7800 FW (Voxel's) which has this additional information which is not seen on stock FW:
Wireless speeds are low however I don't expect alot from the R7800. Also the router that the RBR850 in AP mode is connected to doesn't support 1Gb WAN services which at this time I tested with.
So the R7800 may see a bit more speed on 5Ghz however not sure. Lots of factors in speed testing wifi. I may come back to this when I go to put my RBR850 online as my main host router to check wireless speed performances.
So at least we know the R7800 does wirelessly bridge connect to the RBR850.
Thank for the reply. I was thinking the RBK752 system, but would bite the bullet on the RBK852 if I knew for sure it would work and was reliable. It's a shame Netgear drops the ball on support and even technical sales questions like this and leaves it up to the community to come to the rescue.
The base code and wifi are the same between the 7 and 8 series so I would expect the R7800 to work as well on the 7 series Orbi.
I wouldn't call NG dropping the ball on this. There are many wifi configurations and devices out there and at the very least, the Orbi AX is meant to be a stand alone system that most wifi devices should connect to with out issues. The use of the R7800 or any wifi wireless bridge is kind of a corner case use and not commonly used or main stream used. So possible that support is more focused on up to date and current products. Also the R7800 is getting up a age. Thats mostly used in a router platform aswell. Other than this, NG seems to be keeping things compatible for the most part. However some are waiting for the RBS50s to become wirelessly compatible with the Orbi AX. Not sure if or when this will happen.
Sorry - I more meant my question of whether I could bridge the RAX120 in w/ AX speed to replace the R7800 altoghether. I was trying to use today technology to replace old technology - but when I asked sales - they couldn't give me a clear answer.
Ah, ok. Well I presume it's possible with the RAX120 if it has the wireless bridge mode feature. I know the RAX80 I had for a short while didn't. Kind of surprised. Does the RAX120 have this feature?