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R6850 won't recognize my modems internet
I've owned this unit for over a year now and finally decided to utilize it in place of the unit I had to purchase from my internet provider ( COMTREND unit- combo modum & WiFi) , My Netgear will n...
Thanks for your reply,.. but exactly how is that accomplished (axcess point mode) ??
I'm not the most savy person when it comes to these things. and it's quite frustrating to me to know the Netgear unit is far better and I can't get the dang thing to work,..:smileyembarrassed:
Thanks for the link,.. however my laptop doesn't provide a port for a ethernet type plugin,.. I guess I have to wait until I can find a a USB type connector line with a ethernet conversion on the other end of it. My Netgear unit does have a USB-2.0 plugin port on it,.. can I use a double ended USB cable to transfer the needed info from my laptop to the Netgear unit ??
You don't have to connect the laptop/pc to the router with ethernet to set it up in access point mode.
You can connect to it over wifi and follow the same process.
Well I'll have to give that a try then,.. the artical made the comment of the ethernet connection between the 2 of them and no mention of doing it based on a wifi signal is this something that the "Nighthawk app" does somewhere along the line ? All I've ever had the sign-in section of that app do is ask about setting like I mentioned in my original post and keeps going back to the same set of questions over and over with no effect in the outcome.
I've never been prompted to a new set of possible inputs