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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.
> [...] 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.