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pedroenes
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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 an...
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pedroenes
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Mar 24, 2020

Thank you Dexter.

 

 Kind regards

Pedro

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pedroenes
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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

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    DexterJB
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    Apr 02, 2020

    Hi pedroenes, yes, you are correct. You can hard wire the extender and have it setup in AP mode. As for extender mode, you can set it up via WPS or go through the setup wizard as well.

     

    Dexter