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Setting up wireless bridge
Hello: I have a R7800 setup to connect to the internet running 5GHz only; then I have a R7500 which I wanted to setup as bridge. I went through the setup on R7500 and after I hit Apply on the br...
After a few hours of resetting and playing with different settings, I finally got it to work.. turned out I got the R7500 to use the same wifi channel as the R7800 and it went through!
Thanks for your input.
[...]When you do what?[...]
I was trying to log into R7500 (the bridge), to see its status, to see if it's in bridge mode, and I couldn't.. I tried logging onto www.routerlogin.net but all I could do was to go into R7800 page.
[...]When you change it to bridge mode, the R7500-as-bridge should get a new LAN IP address from the main router, and it should appear in an "Attached Devices" report on that main router[...]
That's the thing, I didn't see it in the "Attached Devices" report in the main router (the R7800), that's why I don't know the IP address of the bridge.
I reset the R7500 to factory default a few times, repeated the same bridge setup process, but same outcome: I got kicked out from the setup page after I clicked Apply then nothing happened.. according to the user manual, I was supposed to see the page said "connected" or something?
Assuming I did all steps right, does it mean something was wrong with the router? What else can I try?
I was trying to log into R7500 (the bridge), to see its status, to see if it's in bridge mode, and I couldn't.. I tried logging onto www.routerlogin.net but all I could do was to go into R7800 page.
[...]When you change it to bridge mode, the R7500-as-bridge should get a new LAN IP address from the main router, and it should appear in an "Attached Devices" report on that main router[...]
That's the thing, I didn't see it in the "Attached Devices" report in the main router (the R7800), that's why I don't know the IP address of the bridge.
I reset the R7500 to factory default a few times, repeated the same bridge setup process, but same outcome: I got kicked out from the setup page after I clicked Apply then nothing happened.. according to the user manual, I was supposed to see the page said "connected" or something?
Assuming I did all steps right, does it mean something was wrong with the router? What else can I try?
> [...] I didn't see it in the "Attached Devices" report in the main
> router (the R7800), [...]
Then it would appear that it failed to connect to the main router.
Other than your specifying bad wireless-network credentials (SSID,
passphrase), or some firmware problem somewhere, I don't have any clever
suggestions.
After a few hours of resetting and playing with different settings, I finally got it to work.. turned out I got the R7500 to use the same wifi channel as the R7800 and it went through!
Thanks for your input.