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AC1200 R6220 wallmount
This is one of the least technical questions on this board. I'd like to mount my 6220 router on the wall. The bottom face of the router has two -o- type holes, as if intended for two mounting screw...
Hi xcskier,
You are correct, those holes are intended for wall-mounting the device. If you decide to proceed with it, please make sure that the screws will not make contact with the board inside the router to avoid any issues.
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
Dexter: thanks for reply. If the holes are intended as wall mounts, why are they sealed off so that screw head cannot hook onto the bottom plate? And therefore, are those little tabs that seal each hole supposed to be removed? Jim
Hi xcskier,
Can you please provide a picture of the said tabs and the bottom part of your unit? The one that I checked in the lab did not have tabs.
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
Dexter: sure, glad to. Please understand that my insistence on details is because I have learned the hard way to not just accept what someone posts to my questions without knowing either who the responder is, or what the basis is for their response. As you can see, the "holes" look like mounting screw ports, except that they are closed off by the plates which are flush with the inside face of the bottom. So the only way to use them as mounting ports is to break out those flush plates, which makes me wonder if they really are (now) intended to be used as mounting ports.
Hi xcskier,
Thank you for providing the photo.
The plates are there as intended and serve as some sort of stopper for the mounting screw so that it will not make contact with the router's internals. That also means that the mounting screw head should not really penetrate deeper than the plates. All you have to do is align the screw head at the center of mounting slot and slide the router up or down, depending on the orientation of your mount, to lock it in place.
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
> [...] a screw cannot penetrate behind the bottom face, [...]
Define "a screw". You may want to use a flat-head (conical bottom)
screw, if whatever you are trying to use won't fit.