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R7000 Not Connecting to Internet
I have an R7000 in a separate building (my shop) from the house that was hardwired to an Asus AX6000. It ran with no issues. I moved the Nighthawk into the house and plugged it into the Asus and while...
- Thank you very much for all the suggestions. Well, my son was here during all this (he's an adult and lives a couple hours away) and I asked him last night if he had done anything new network wise to his laptop and he had recently loaded Expressvpn onto his laptop. He only connected to the Asus router via WiFi during his visit. I ran an ipconfig/all and found that the Netgear router had a new IP address. I browsed to it and expressvpn software came up asking my for the router's password which I entered. That gave me limited access to the router's config so I called Express. They said that my router had their firmware on it and they had a utility to reload the Netgear firmware which I did and all is well again. When I asked how this happened, they stated that I must have loaded it or it was on there when I bought it. Well I didn't load it, and my son doesn't have access to that router physically or network wise, and I bought it brand new from Best Buy 4 years ago. Quite the mystery to me.
Thank you kindly for the suggestion. I believe it is in AP mode, it's been a while. But I cannot check that out so anything with the router since it will not connect to the internet. I tried connecting it to a PC (no Internet then) with IP 192.162.1.1 and by using the app while on it's WiFi but it needs Internet for that operation.
Mdw3998 wrote:
I believe it is in AP mode, it's been a while. But I cannot check that out so anything with the router since it will not connect to the internet. I tried connecting it to a PC (no Internet then) with IP 192.162.1.1 and by using the app while on it's WiFi but it needs Internet for that operation.
In AP mode it will not have that address.(See my earlier message.) Your router should have squatted on that.
You need to look for the IP address of the wifi SSID. Then you can aim a browser at that. With luck you will get the browser graphical user interface (GUI) and can check the mode from there.
... and by using the app while on it's WiFi but it needs Internet for that operation.
Not really. It needs an Internet connection to connect to the Internet. It does not need that for you to get into the device over the wifi.
The Nighthawk app is too dumb to do something complicated like that but it might reveal the IP address of the wifi from the R7000.
Another place to look is in whatever your main router shows in its list of attached devices.
Resetting the R7000 – the usual "who knows what is going on?" suggestion – gets you nowhere nearer to understanding what is happening in your network. By all means go down that "brute force" road but don't expect to come out any the wiser.