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AgFox9
Jan 17, 2025Initiate
Wanting to Bridge R7000 to RAX43 using Cat 6 Ethernet Link
Currently I have my R7000 in the Workshop set up as a Router connected to my RAX43 in the House using a Cat 6 Cable. Currently they are each running separate WiFi Zones. Both have the latest Firmwa...
- Jan 18, 2025
Solved - thank you all for your very prompt responses.
Connecting the R7000 in AP Mode to the RAX43 using a Cat6 cable is giving me a very workable solution of having one Wi-Fi name and network address range spread between the House and the Workshop. While the Wi-Fi connections to the phones may not be completely seamless, while wandering back and forth to the Workshop from the House, it seems to be working pretty well.
As for the Cross-over Cable from the RAX43 LAN1 Port to the R7000's WAN Port, for some strange reason this is the only way I could get the two to play nicely together. I am pretty much getting full Gigabit speed at each Router when testing the link connection using SpeedTest, so this seems to be working well. Although I appreciate that technically this may not be the optimal solution, it is the only one I could get to work.
While I appreciate that my desires, may not have been technically correct to call it 'Bridging', this setup has allowed me to join, which were previously two separate networks (192.168.1.1 range and 10.0.0.1 range), into the one 192.16.1.1. network. In my naivety I assumed that when you joined two different networks to form one, I thought this was called 'Bridging' - silly me.
The beauty of this setup is that I can now also access the Colour Laser in the Office from the Workshop and the CNC machine in the Workshop from the Office CAD/CAM PC - Perfect.
Great - shame the R7000 has just become EOS, but it is working I will leave it as it is.
Another great tip I picked up from this forum was the ability to back up your Router Configuration Settings, another little gem. Thanks
plemans
Jan 17, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Set it up in access point mode and just use the same ssid for both devices. Just make sure they're using different wifi channels for each band to reduce interference. If the buildings are far enough apart, the device's (phone/laptop/etc) own roaming protocols will switch between the 2.
They won't be true "mesh" systems because neither is a mesh device like the Orbi's or MK nighthawk but you can have it work (ish).