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rgrant874
Follower
May 26, 2022

How to turn my Nighthawk R6400V2 into an Extender

I am unable to get into the advanced settings to change the router into an extender. Can anyone help me? I have used a cat5 cable to connect the nighthawk to my router but I can seam to find the ri...
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plemans
Guru - Experienced User
May 26, 2022

I know extender mode was pulled (removed) from the r6400v1 at some point in its firmware. Not sure if the v2 even had it. 

You could hardwire it in and use it in access point mode. 

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wcalifas
Prodigy
May 28, 2022

To turn it into an access point just turn off the DHCP.