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pedroenes
Aspirant
Mar 18, 2020

Mesh Extend the signal of a Nighthawk R7000P with ethernet cable

Hi !

  I Have a Nighthawk R7000P in one side of my house and a old Linksys (with WRT) on other side extending my Wifi Network.
  - Both are direct connect with a Ethernet Cable. 
  - The DHCP and DNS services are managed by a Raspberry Pie connected to the Nighthawk (that connects to the telco LAN switch)

  I want to replace the old Linksys by a Nighthawk equipment that can Mesh the Wifi network (managing better the global wifi and stability of it), but I want to use the existing Ethernet direct cable to optimize the traffic in between both routers, not depending of the Wifi for that type of traffic.

  What model do you suggest? AC1900? (at this momment I'm not thinking on Wifi 6...)

 

  Thanks for the help!!!

Kind regards

PE

 

 

 

 

 

 

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      • pedroenes's avatar
        pedroenes
        Aspirant
        Mar 27, 2020

        Just to be clear.

         

         As I understood on the documentation, if I want to interconnect the R7000P with the AC1900 Extender with a Ethernet cable, I need to set up the extender as Access Point. In that case can I setup the Wifi with the same SSID? (as I do actually with a old router...)

         

          To be a Wireless Extender the interconnection should be done through Wireless WPS.

          

           Is it correct?

         

        Thanks!

        PE