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R6220 as dual band range extender
Hi!
I have a R7000 in my basement connected to cable modem. It's set up as WDS base station on the 5ghz band and normal WiFi for clients on the 2.4ghz band. Upstairs I have a R6220 set up as wireless repeater on the 5ghz band. My wired ports connect to the internet just fine, but I also want to be able to connect to the 2.4ghz band Wifi off the R6220. I have 2.4ghz radio turned on, but the SSID is not showing up on any clients, and Inssider Home is not showing any broadcast on the channel I have selected for the 2.4 ghz radio. The R7000 base station is running on channel 11 and the R6220 is set to channel 1.
Is this a limitation of WiFi repeating? I've tried turning access point mode both on and off on the R6220. With access point mode turned off, the router says it is not connected to the inter. With access point mode turned on, it shows connected to the internet.
Thanks!
Very Respectfully,
John
Thank you for your reply searay.
Find a way to locate the r7000 in middle of the house
Why? It's working just fine from the basement.
run a cable upstairs
That would be difficult to do, especially since I am only renting the house.
purchase a WIFI repeater and loose many of the Speed benefits of the r7000
Both the R7000 and the R6220 have wireless repeating functions built into the firmware. So why should I purchase another WiFi repeater?
Your cable modem can be relocated to almost any CATV outlet in the house
Sure. But then the problem becomes routing the wired ethernet connections to a different location than where the router is now - or routing an ethernet cable from the cable modem to the router.
Another option is to use these http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/powerline
I could. But again, with WiFi repeating built into the firmware of the R7000 and R6220, why should I purchase more equipment?
The remote location in question is my daughter's bedroom on the second floor. She needs two wired ethernet connections - one for XBOX 360 and one for smart TV. Since I need to have a WiFi bridge client up there anyway to provide the ethernet connections, it would be convenient to also broadcast a 2.4ghz WiFi signal up there for stronger connection around her bedroom. Isn't situations like this exactly why Netgear included WiFi repeating into their firmwares?
However, I did get it fixed. I started over from scratch, factory reset both routers. Set up the R7000 first, creating the 2.4ghz WiFi channel 11, 5ghz WiFi channel 149, both set to max speed capabilities. Enabled WiFi repeating on 5.0ghz channel (base) entering the MAC address of the R6220 and leaving the box for denying client associations unchecked (that seemed to be the problem). Then I set up the R6220 with the WiFi channels I wanted, 2.4ghz on channel 1, 5ghz on channel 149 with the same SSID's as the R7000. 5ghz max speed, 2.4ghz limited to 20mhz because the max speed setting overlapped with the channel 11, and I want most of the 5.0ghz bandwidth used for the wired ethernet ports anyway. Disabled DHCP on the R6220 and enabled the WiFi repeating function (client), left the same check box unchecked, everthing connects like it should now.
The R6220 still shows there is no internet connection. I know if I enable access point mode that it will show an active internet connection, but everything is actually funtioning the way I want - so I am affraid to enable the access point mode :-).
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After reading this several times I'm still confused.
Find a way to locate the r7000 in middle of the house and or run a cable upstairs and use r6220 in AP mode or purchase a WIFI repeater and loose many of the Speed benefits of the r7000.
Your cable modem can be relocated to almost any CATV outlet in the house. Extending and repeating are always going to be a problem as your network demands grow.
Another option is to use these http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/powerline
Thank you for your reply searay.
Find a way to locate the r7000 in middle of the house
Why? It's working just fine from the basement.
run a cable upstairs
That would be difficult to do, especially since I am only renting the house.
purchase a WIFI repeater and loose many of the Speed benefits of the r7000
Both the R7000 and the R6220 have wireless repeating functions built into the firmware. So why should I purchase another WiFi repeater?
Your cable modem can be relocated to almost any CATV outlet in the house
Sure. But then the problem becomes routing the wired ethernet connections to a different location than where the router is now - or routing an ethernet cable from the cable modem to the router.
Another option is to use these http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/powerline
I could. But again, with WiFi repeating built into the firmware of the R7000 and R6220, why should I purchase more equipment?
The remote location in question is my daughter's bedroom on the second floor. She needs two wired ethernet connections - one for XBOX 360 and one for smart TV. Since I need to have a WiFi bridge client up there anyway to provide the ethernet connections, it would be convenient to also broadcast a 2.4ghz WiFi signal up there for stronger connection around her bedroom. Isn't situations like this exactly why Netgear included WiFi repeating into their firmwares?
However, I did get it fixed. I started over from scratch, factory reset both routers. Set up the R7000 first, creating the 2.4ghz WiFi channel 11, 5ghz WiFi channel 149, both set to max speed capabilities. Enabled WiFi repeating on 5.0ghz channel (base) entering the MAC address of the R6220 and leaving the box for denying client associations unchecked (that seemed to be the problem). Then I set up the R6220 with the WiFi channels I wanted, 2.4ghz on channel 1, 5ghz on channel 149 with the same SSID's as the R7000. 5ghz max speed, 2.4ghz limited to 20mhz because the max speed setting overlapped with the channel 11, and I want most of the 5.0ghz bandwidth used for the wired ethernet ports anyway. Disabled DHCP on the R6220 and enabled the WiFi repeating function (client), left the same check box unchecked, everthing connects like it should now.
The R6220 still shows there is no internet connection. I know if I enable access point mode that it will show an active internet connection, but everything is actually funtioning the way I want - so I am affraid to enable the access point mode :-).
