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applefanboy
Jun 05, 2022Aspirant
R9000 — Nighthawk X10 AD7200 transmitting 5ghz but not accepting connections
Hello, I have a R9000 — Nighthawk X10 AD7200 Smart WiFi Router. The router is transmitting a 5GHz signal but not accepting any connections to it. So far I have tried: Installed dd-wrt Issu...
applefanboy
Jun 08, 2022Aspirant
I installed the voxel firmware and I am still unable to connect to the 5Ghz channel. As you said it must be a hardware failure at this point.
Thanks for the help.
FURRYe38
Jun 08, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Ok. Sorry it didn't work out.
If the router is working otherwise, you could just disable the WiFi radios on the router and install a external wired Wireless AP or WiFI MESH system in AP mode to work with the R9000 router.