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Router won't serve access point
I've tried two routers in Access Point mode, and one dedicated AP, but cannot get an internet connection via the APs. I previously had good service to an older Netgear router, WAX214v2, but when I in...
Can all the LAN ports on the Nighthawk serve an AP? I have one AP working inside the main building, so at least one LAN port can hack it.
Dr_Quark wrote:
Can all the LAN ports on the Nighthawk serve an AP? I have one AP working inside the main building, so at least one LAN port can hack it.
Do you mean that you want to feed several APs off one router?
It should work, but you can end up with a messy network. Remember what AP means:
Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support
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The network topography is: the main router in the basement, an AP on the main floor at the other side of the building, and an AP in the shop, 250'+ away. Both the main building and the shop are essentially faraday cages. This network worked flawlessly for 5 years. Then the main router died and was replaced with the same model, but v2.
The new router will not talk to the second AP in the shop, and it took several stern lectures to get it to work with the AP in the main building. But it will connect with a laptop (on the same ethernet cable) in the shop. Why connect to the laptop and not the AP?
In the main building I have 54 connected devices. The shop has six, so when the older AP in the shop was working, the network had 60 devices, and sometimes a few more when I was doing some ESP32 cameras.
Dr_Quark wrote:
The network topography is: the main router in the basement, an AP on the main floor at the other side of the building, and an AP in the shop, 250'+ away. Both the main building and the shop are essentially faraday cages. This network worked flawlessly for 5 years. Then the main router died and was replaced with the same model, but v2.
I'm surprised that you got that to work.
Such an arrangement is well outside my experience of domestic networks. You'll have to get advice from someone who understands what looks to me more like a business setup.
Just another user with time on their hands.
