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Can't configure AX40 as AP mode
I have spent countless hours trying to configure a new RAX40 as AP mode. I also have a Netgear 7800 and I didnt have any problem doing the same thing. I dont know if my unit is defective. Do you ha...
What are you doing and where does it go wrong?
The best way to put a router into AP mode is as a standalone operation. Connect the RAX40 to a PC and nothing else. Set it up in AP mode and then add it to the rest of the network.
And remember to start everything in the right order.
Be sure to restart your network in this sequence:
- Turn off and unplug modem.
- Turn off router and computers.
- Plug in and turn on modem. Wait 2 minutes for it to connect.
- Turn on the router and wait 2 minutes for it connect.
- Turn on the AP
- Turn on computers and rest of network.
I am probably doing some things wrong. ( I am not a network e pert at all but I was doing what a guy that does know a lot told me).
I have a Cisco Linksys router that assigned the ip to the network and 2 NETGEAR 7800 routers configured as access points.i will tell what I am doing.:
1. Connect the new AX40 to the switch via the yellow port.
2. Reset the ax40. (After trying unsuccessfully to make it work).
3. Once it turned on I connected to the Netgear31 via wifi (the new router default name).
4. The lights turn all green but it doesn’t have internet.
5. I type router login.net and start accessing the router config. (Create admin password, register etc)
6. after doing all that suddenly it has internet.
7. I go to advanced settings: wireless ap, turn on and apply. ( I have tried with and without fixed ip)
8. Once applied the laptop connects to my regular network while the new router is updating the config.
9, I ccnnect to the new network (didn’t change name at all) and it doesn’t have internet. Lights on the router are green.
10. I tried also the same but connecting to the black port instead of the yellow.
I have an old lap with Ethernet port.
When you say connect the RAX to a pc and nothing more should the lap be connected to rax via cable or wifi.
I tried also to do it with that computer but I kept connected the rax to the network via yellow port and connected the lap to one of the black ports. I needed to connect via WiFi anyway so it didn’t do any difference
Just a network cable connection to the existing network, and e.g. a wireless device accessing the AX40 wireless for example.
When using the AX40 alone, the system connected (via wireless or the old PC by network cable on a LAN port) should not receive an IP address, as the DHCP server should be disabled.
