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Nighthawk X4S R7800 showing wrong country or location
I have a nighthawk X4S R7800 used as an access point, connected to my ISPs (sky broadband) router. The Sky router when I am connected to it directly works well (but it doesnt have good range, hence ...
michaelkenward answers below in red and underlined.
Does that mean that it is set up as an access point in the browser graphical user interface (GUI)? - yes, I set up the access point rather than router or bridge.
As @plemans says, do that and the router Sky Box sets the IP address for the R7800. - thats what I have done
So I turned off the sky routers wifi hoping that the nighthawks range would be better, and it is.
If you do that, the Sky Box still works as a router. So you should put the R7800 into AP mode. (See above.) - yep, i know how to set up the AP as I have already done that.
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However when connected to the nighthawk wifi (it uses the same SSID as Sky) when I surf the internet or use apps on either my phone / desktop it thinks im in another country.
What tells you that? - i use the same name and password for the nighthawk as I wouldve used for the sky router.
How can the R7800 use the same SSID as the Sky with its wifi turned off? - it only uses the name, not the actual service and when you set up the AP it recommends that you switch off the ISP wifi.
What do you see in the settings here:
- Basic
- Wireless
- Region Selection - EUROPE
- although both ENABLE SMART CONNECT and ENABLE SSID BROADCAST is not ticked.
Not sure that I follow all of those answers. Let's stick with this bit:
callum1980 wrote:
However when connected to the nighthawk wifi (it uses the same SSID as Sky) when I surf the internet or use apps on either my phone / desktop it thinks im in another country.What tells you that? - i use the same name and password for the nighthawk as I wouldve used for the sky router.
This doesn't say what tells you that you are in "another country".
Using the same name and password has nothing to do with the country.
There are two "name and password" options here.
One option is the GUI access for the Sky router and the R7800 in AP mode.
The other is for the wifi. (More accurately these are the SSID and the "passphrase", but people often call them "name and password".)
Neither of these has anything to do with the country.
Or maybe you are talking about the name and password for your Sky Internet service. If the R7800 is in router mode, you enter that in the GUI to get the thing to connect through the Sky modem/router. In AP modem, the R7800 does not require that information. If it does you are not in AP mode.
You say that the GUI shows Europe as the region. That's as it should be. There is no UK region for wifi. The dimwitted Conservative government has yet to rule that Brexit means that we can cut the country off from the rest of the planet with our own wifi standards. So we have the same wifi standards as the rest of Europe.
So I am still left wondering what tells you that you are in another country.
michaelkenward thanks for the intel. What tells me I am in another country, is that when I am on the internet or using apps that show content based on geo-location, its showing me non-UK web pages / content. So ive isolated the issue of the wrong country to the nighthawk wifi.