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R6220 as bridge
Since it seems like noone is able to answer this in a concrete way, I'm close to throw this piece of xx out the window right away, but let me give it one last chance.
Setting: I have a wifi router from my ISP. The R6220 is supposed to be able to operate as a bridge.
All instructions I've found seems to require that for R6220 to bridge something, you have to also have a Net**bleep** router as the first router?
This is how simple it is to configure a competitor: https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/702/
As I get it, for my way more expensive router (yes, I understand that it's also working as a router, but seems to me that this is ONLY about the software, as the TP Link doesn't need to be registered anywhere.) I have to do these steps:
1) Buy a Netgear router to put next to the ISP router, cable it to ISP router and let disable the wifi on the ISP one
2) Log in to the new router, not down the MAC address, disable DHCP (really?)
3) Log into the R6220, type the information I found at the new one
4) Log into the new one, type some information from R6220
5) Do a magical dance
PS: The Netgear support must be the biggest joke ever. They reject to answer to questions, and leave it for a forum with no quality control? I've found answers like: "The R6220 doesn't have that feature" and "You can just put the first router more centrally".
2 Replies
> Since it seems like noone is able to answer this in a concrete way,
> [...]Huh? Who was asked what?
> [...] The R6220 is supposed to be able to operate as a bridge.
Who supposes that? What, exactly, does "as a bridge" mean to you?
> All instructions I've found [...]
Where, exactly, did you find what, exactly?
> This is how simple it is to configure a competitor: [...]
A TP-Link RE200 or RE210 is a wireless extender, not a router (like
an R6220). Yes, configuring a wireless extender as a wireless extender
might be easier than configuring a router as a wireless extender.
Especially if that router does not support operation as a wireless
extender.Netgear makes wireless extenders, too.
> [...] I have to do these steps: [...]
You omitted the most important step:
0) Get a device which was intended to do the job you want done.
> [...] I've found answers like: "The R6220 doesn't have that feature"
> [...]I'm less amazed by that than you seem to be.
Trokkedet wrote:
Setting: I have a wifi router from my ISP. The R6220 is supposed to be able to operate as a bridge.
The only "bridge" that appears in the manual for the R6220 is a "Bridge for a VLAN Tag Group". Is that what you want?
Trokkedet wrote:
This is how simple it is to configure a competitor: https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/702/
That link goes to a page for a TP-LINK wifi extender. That's not a router. An extender is, almost by definition, a "wireless bridge". It sits as a "bridge" between a router's wifi and wifi clients.
Some routers offer a "bridge mode". That includes quite a few of Netgear's routers, including the R6200 and R6250. Sadly, your downmarket Netgear R6220 router is one of a few that lacks that feature. Did you check that before you bought the thing?
You can though, use the R6220 it as a Wireless Access Point.
Trokkedet wrote:
PS: The Netgear support must be the biggest joke ever. They reject to answer to questions, and leave it for a forum with no quality control? I've found answers like: "The R6220 doesn't have that feature" and "You can just put the first router more centrally".
There is nothing wrong with those answers. The first one may disappoint you but it is spot on. The second is also a good answer for some problems.
