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Extending wifi range with R6900
I am trying to extend my wifi range with the R6900. I have my DSP router wich is an Arris DG1670 I will use as the base and the R6900 as the extender. Ive never done thisand have tried but have not had success. Anyone have any tips or can you point me to a Doc that I can use? That would be excellent.
The Arris has 2 Mac addresses one is the CM and the other is the WAN. Im assuming that I would use the WAN mac for this setup. Any further ind=fo wold be much appreciated. thx
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the DG1670 is a pretty crap router. Its an older N450 router. the R6900 is much faster/more capable.
You'd be better off to put it in modem only mode (contact your isp for help with that) and run the r6900 as primary router.
interesting. so use the 1670 to get the signal into the house then hard wire the 6900 to it and use that. So that in effect should extend my range more than what i have at present.
I was looking through the dg1670's manual and couldn't find a modem only mode.
what you'd want to do then is connect the R6900 to the DG1670 and place the R6900 in access point mode.
This prevents a double nat.
https://kb.netgear.com/30186/What-is-Double-NAT
A double nat is when 2 routers are running on the same network with both in router mode.
you'll still be able to use the R6900's wireless/ethernet but you lose some advanced features like qos, traffic monitoring, etc.
https://kb.netgear.com/26765/Disabled-Features-on-the-Router-when-set-to-AP-Mode
