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R8500 wireless bridge setup
Which of the two 5ghz band is the best or recommended one to use when setting up a wireless bridge on another R8500 router? Is it the first 5GHZ or the second 5GHZ SSID and PASSWORD?
...finally got it working, can now log on to the wireless bridge router with static address, after having done multiple time of 'factory reseting' the router. Just for curiosity, factory resetting a router a few or multiple times, will it cause damage to the router?
I don't care for the Genie (crap) app and have no Idea. I don't think the genie app is able to detect TWO 5g SSID's when I tested the R8000 and genie it couldn't back then.
Is it listed in the attached devices list when logging into router?
When logged on to the Main Router (the first R8500), and go to the 'Attached Devices' menu, it's not listed. But when you go to the 'Control Devices' where you can see the allowed devices, you can see it is listed there BUT only displaying the mac address of the second R8500 (Wireless Bridge), and the IP Address field only shows '---".
All other devices connected to my network are showing with all the relevant information, e.g., device name, ip address, mac address.
