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Connect a wired slave router to a Wifi Range Extender EX6200-100PAS?
Hello Everybody, I bought last weekend from Bestbuy a Nighthawk X6 Ac3200 router, after the installation I realized that it didn’t make much difference I went back to the store this weekend they...
You should be able to enable AP Mode on the Nighthawk router. Then connect its WAN port to a LAN port on the EX6200.
Instead of using AP Mode, another method is to disable the DHCP server on the Nighthawk. You will have to configure a static IP address on the Nighthawk's LAN Setup. Also, make sure that your main router avoids assigning this IP address to another device. Then connect a Nighthawk LAN (important!) port to a EX6200 LAN port. Leave the Nighthawk WAN port disconnected. This leaves you with one less LAN port. Why do this? I have read that the maximum speed achievable with AP Mode is slower than this method. The difference may only be noticeable at speeds over 400 Mbps, so if the extender is the bottleneck, it may be better to stick with AP Mode.
Go with whatever method you are comfortable with.