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connecting 2 units together
i have the c7000 combo unit and i just got the linksys ea7500 router. what i would like to do is put my camera system on the linksys unit to try to get it a bit harder for hackers to get to and then ...
ok plemans i did what this said
try setting up the linksys as an access point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaUIYpf0S00
and now i do not see the linksys router. that could be normal i do see the linksys in the internet access icon an i can connect to the 2.4 and the 5 ghz bands. but setting next to the router the 2.4 band is way slower for the speed test. so maybe this router is not as fast as the c7000 is. using the wifi connections
linksys 2.4 20 mbps
linksys 5 30 bps
netgear 2.4 23 mbps
netgear 5 230 mbps
so is that now a normal thing to lose the linksys router when i open a tab and enter 192.168.1.1 ? because one of the youtubes said not to use the yellow port but the youtube you sent me to showed using the yellow port also because i do not yet have a place for the linksys router can i turn it off and not lose any settings for the next time i turn it back on? thanks
You'd be best to ask on the linksys forum what its expectations are in bridge mode.
if you watched the video, it literally goes over the fact that you're changing the IP address for the linksys. You'd then use that address to access it.
thanks i did use that address and it failed to access. also i moved the linksys upstairs using a 50' cat5 cable and i lost wifi speed on the 2.4 band and kept the same speeds on the other bands for both the netgear and the linksys 5ghz band, so that was a pointless ventrue. but this was just a test to see how it would work. and like i said before at the least i can put this on the shelf and use it in the future in case of a c7000 failure, that is bound to happen. i have a netgear n600 modem only and hooking this to that should be a pc of cake as ther will be nothing else to setup.
so being i lost the linksys 2.4ghz band speed in that bridge mode i will turn it off and set it onthe shelf. thanks for the help. and if i need to use it as the stand alone router i will just reset it and it should be just fine. so now i know. it was worth figureing it out but i did not gain anything. thanks again bp.
> [...] now i do not see the linksys router. [...]
Well, duh. Where did you look?
> [...] one of the youtubes said [...]
What did _Linksys_ say?
> [...] i moved the linksys upstairs using a 50' cat5 cable and i lost
> wifi speed on the 2.4 band [...]I suppose that it would be pointless to note that a bad cable could
cause that.
