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Sonic1221
Aspirant
Apr 15, 2017

Can the AC1750 serve as an extender?

Trying to set up an AC1750 as a range extender, can that be possible?

Troubleshooting

16 Replies

      • TheEther's avatar
        TheEther
        Guru
        Apr 16, 2017

        The R6400 with stock firmware won't really work as an extender.  If you are willing to install third-party firmware, then it will have support.

  • pilot51's avatar
    pilot51
    Guide
    Apr 22, 2017
    Unfortunately, when I turned off the wifi on the pc laptop, and entered 193.168.1.1 it still gave me the Frontier login. Then I turned off the wifi on the router and it told me it couldn't connect to 192.168.1.1
    • TheEther's avatar
      TheEther
      Guru
      Apr 22, 2017
      pilot51 wrote:
      Unfortunately, when I turned off the wifi on the pc laptop, and entered 193.168.1.1 it still gave me the Frontier login. Then I turned off the wifi on the router and it told me it couldn't connect to 192.168.1.1

      It should not be possible to get a Frontier login if the R6400 and PC are physically connected to each other and nothing else.  Is the PC getting an IP address from the R6400?  You may want to factory reset the R6400 just to be sure it is running in router mode.