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R8000/R7900: No Wireless Bridge Mode?
Surprised to see that there is no bridge mode option in R7900/R8000 admin settings. The only feature that's available is the Wireless AP mode. Is this correct? Am I missing something? Even on the...
Hi ZackM,
It is how bridge mode works. The router when set to bridge mode connects to the main router via wireless. The purpose for bridge mode is for wired devices connects wireless via the router. For more info you may check the KB below.
https://kb.netgear.com/24105/What-is-bridge-mode-and-how-do-I-set-it-up-on-my-Nighthawk-router
can you tell me what exact fw you used? I have a second R8000 that I would like to use as a repeater but the DDWRT from Kong seems to have issues with this mode bricking it based on the myopenrouter website.
i tried to use dd-wrt, to make R8000 a range extender. But I can't find the settings that work in the WRT UI.
The general instructions are in their article, Repeater Bridge.
Hi Ether, thanks for reply. I've been trying several instructions like this
https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Universal_Wireless_Repeater
https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WDS_Linked_router_network
None of them have worked. I'll try the link you sent. I did not see those particular instructions. At the moment, I'm not positive about it. It looks very similar to all the other instructions. I'm starting to think this R8000 is simply not capable of acting as a wireless repeater. Nobody has success so far.
The Universal Wireless Repeater link literally says not to use it and even provides a link to the Repeater Bridge link that I provided. Anyway, I hope you get it to work.
