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Bridge mode?
I have a primary router in my house, where the internet comes in. From there, I have a cat 6 cable running from the primary router, to a secondary router (about 100’) out into my garage/guest house. When I’m in my garage, some devices drop connectivity, because they are not sure which Wi-Fi signal they should be using. I was told to bridge the router in the garage. Is this what I should do so that I have Wi-Fi in my house and in garage? Will this solve the issue of dropping Wi-Fi signal from secondary router in garage? Or do I just change ip and dhcp settings in garage (secondary router)? I tried bridging secondary router and had problems setting it up. Please help!!!
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The better mode would be AP mode:
https://kb.netgear.com/20927/How-do-I-change-my-NETGEAR-router-to-AP-mode
What NG router are you referring too?
- The primary router is a NETGEAR C7000, and the secondary is a NETGEAR R6900v2
Thanks for the help. I am still a bit confused….
For example, my speakers drop out when in my garage. Speaker manufacturer suggested setting secondary router in bridge mode.
The article you sent states:
“If you are installing your router with an ISP gateway that supports bridge mode, we recommend that you enable bridge mode on your ISP gateway and install your NETGEAR router in router mode instead of AP mode.“
I am not sure what to do… any advice is Greatly appreciated…..
- Please see my information in the 2 separate messages…..
Bridge mode gets confusing because different manufactures refer it to doing different things.
With your setup, if you've got a hardwired connection into the garage, set the 2nd device in AP mode. It disables its routing functions so there isn't a double nat.
If you're still getting drops while in the garage and its connected to the garage router's wifi, then there's a couple things to check.
1. make sure the garage router is using different wifi channels from the house wifi.
2. Make sure the house---garage wired connecting is operating well. Hardwire a pc/laptop into the garage router and test its speeds. What do you get hardwired?
3. make sure your garage devices are on 5ghz if its available. Its a much faster network and has less interference
If your devices are struggling to swap from house to garage wifi, you might actually need to turn the broadcast power down on the home/garage routers so devices will roam more efficiently. Since you're not using a mesh system like orbi, there isn't the smart roaming features so devices tend to be more sticky and not roam as well.
