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Nighthawk AC1900 Router (C7000v2) no internet with PtP wireless bridge
Hi everyone, I am hoping to see if anyone knows what is going wrong with my router. I am using 2 ubiquiti Nanobeam 5AC Gen 2 units to form a wireless bridge to get internet at a second location whi...
I have checked, but no one seems to know. It does appear that the Nighthawk router is the issue to me because I tested it with a different router and everything worked perfectly. Simply plugging in one of those nanobeams takes down the internet, not even forming the link yet or having anything else plugged into the router.
The thing is that via DHCP or static IP address the results are the same. These nanobeams should work with the settings I put in them, they're on the same network as the router and they have the router as the default gateway.
Is there a way to assign a different subnet or guest network to the lan port that I can plug that ubiquiti nanobeam into? Maybe that would would work.
any chance its the POE?
have you tried it with just the poe injector connected but not hooked to the ubiquiti
No I have not tried that yet. I will be trying that this weekend. Lots of troubleshooting this weekend because theres no reason why this shouldn't be working (but clearly there is) and making me lose what little sanity I have left. I also got a response from Ubiquiti staff saying that all my settings for the devices are correct, it has to be something with this router.
This isn't the first time I've had quirky things happen with these all in one units either, it's just that what is actually happening is a bit beyond my level of comprehension.
Why would simply plugging an access point into an ethernet port on that router cause everything to lose internet? Even LAN drops and I am unable to access the router with a laptop plugged into ethernet.
Is it possible that since the access point is generating a wireless network that it's somehow competing with the wireless network that the router is generating?
Disclaimer: I have no experience with these Nanobeam gizmos, so I
know nothing, and I offer no advice on your problem. But...> Why would simply plugging an access point into an ethernet port on
> that router cause everything to lose internet? [...]One possible explanation would be that something on your extended
network is using a duplicate IP address. If you have another device at
the same address as the (modem+)router ("192.168.0.1"?), then all kinds
of bad behavior might be expected.> Is it possible that [...]
I'd worry more about IP fundamentals, rather than wireless anything.
But what do I know?
I'm positive there are no duplicate IP addresses on the network.
I decided to try disabling the router function on the nighthawk and replace it by connecting it to a ubiquiti edgerouter I had laying around to see if that would change anything. The same problem happens, everything works perfectly fine until the moment I plug in one of those nanobeams to the router.
When I disable the router on the nighthawk, it should be just a simple modem like any other one right? No special hidden little trick somewhere?
I took all the equipment home to try on my home network where it was previously working and sure enough everything is working fine with the nanobeam plugged into my edgerouter. The only difference between both networks is the nighthawk. I'm about to just toss this thing and buy something else.