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Vincy's avatar
Vincy
Aspirant
Aug 10, 2019

AX8 AX5700 (RAX75) Management Software freeze every day along with the AD7000 (R8900)

I bought this AX8 AX5700 (RAX75) (unfortunately, costco model is not even showing up in the dropdown...) router from Costco to replace my AD7000 (R8900)which also bought from Costco.  I did the fir...
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michaelkenward
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 11, 2019

I'd deal with that pule of issues one at a time. They do not seem to be related.

 

Maybe other people with more expertise will be able to pick up those issues.

 

I'll start with this one:

 

Vincy wrote:

Next day, I wanted to setup R8900 as Wireless Bridge from the living room to connect my Media Center which includes, TV, AV Receiver, BluRay and sometime my Macbook for troubleshooting the bridged router. 

 

What is your idea of a Wireless Bridge?

 

I ask because people turn up here with different interpretations of "bridge", not helped by Netgear's own indiscriminate use of the label.

 

You want the R8900 to talk to wifi on the RAX75 and to pass it on to other devices?

 

You want to wire the R8900 to the RAX75 and act as a wifi access point?

 

You have been through everything in the manual for the R8900?

 

 

There is a manual for the R8900 somewhere at the end of this link:

 

>> Click here >> R8900 | Product | Support | NETGEAR << Click here <<

 

See the section Set Up the Router in Bridge Mode.

 

Vincy wrote:

I assume they both have the same management software.... unless I am mistaken?

I very much doubt if you are mistaken.

 

That you can't get into the graphical user interface (GUI) is a bummer. What sits at the front of the network? The modem?