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dawgar8
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Apr 14, 2020

Not connecting to laptop

I installed a new Nighthawk R7000 last night. It works on our Mac, our phones, and Chromebook. However, it is not working on my Dell laptop. We also have another router on another level of the house ...
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 14, 2020

Please post about this here for your model router:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/bd-p/home-wifi-routers-nighthawk

Good Luck.

dawgar8 wrote:

I installed a new Nighthawk R7000 last night. It works on our Mac, our phones, and Chromebook. However, it is not working on my Dell laptop. We also have another router on another level of the house and it connects just fine, so I know the problem has to be something with the computer, not the router, but I cannot figure it out. I'm running Windows 10. Any ideas?