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Bridge or AP Mode on R7900P
I recently purchased a Nighthawk Mesh Wifi 6 router set of 3 and previously had a Nighthawk R7900P router. I removed the R7900P from the network and setup the Nighthawk Mesh network. If possible, I w...
To the "guru" antinode:
To better help you understand the intent, we were trying to connect WIRELESSLY from a Netgear Mesh Router system to a Netgear R7900P router. It appears that Wireless Distribution System on other routers does not exist on the R7900P router. It seems like the only way to support the 2nd router (R7900P) is to connect it to the Mesh router via an ethernet cable.
Regards,
Pat
> [...] we were trying to connect WIRELESSLY from a Netgear Mesh Router
> system to a Netgear R7900P router. [...]
Ok. I can make sense of that.
> [...] It appears that Wireless Distribution System on other routers
> does not exist on the R7900P router. [...]
It never was worth much; no worthwhile security alowed.
> [...] It seems like the only way to support the 2nd router (R7900P) is
> to connect it to the Mesh router via an ethernet cable.
If you want wireless client devices to connect to the R7900P, that
that sounds right. (See "Set up the router as a WiFi access point" in
the R7900P User Manual.)
Strictly speaking, "an Ethernet cable (or equivalent)". There exist
Powerline adapters which use existing power wiring to carry network
signals, and MoCA adapters which use coaxial cable similarly.
The alternative with a wireless connection to the main router is
wireless bridge mode, but that offers only wired connections between
client devices and the R7900P. (See "Set up the router in bridge mode"
in the R7900P User Manual.)