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Shona
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Dec 31, 2014

R7000 AP mode only?

I live in an area where I cannot access ADSL so have 4G internet provided by Vividwireless. The modem (home gateway) is a combined modem/router/wifi device but the wifi component no longer meets my ne...
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Retired_Member
Jan 26, 2015
Do I connect the R7000 WAN port to an Ethernet port on the home gateway? Shona[/QUOTE] The r7000 should work fine as a AP in AP MODE. Connect a PC to r7000 1st using any LAN port, select AP MODE after setting SSID and Security. After it reboots in AP mode, connect WAN port to any LAN port on the gateway, .the gateway will hand out the IP's...... connect to the gateway to find the IP for the r7000, then you can use that IP to log in to GUI to make changes.