I'm trying to set up a new access point on my cousin's network. Her old Accepoint died. I was going to replace it with a WAC510. Her office is away from the main house and is connect via a wireless bridge.
I can get the WAC510 to connect and work perfectly with my own network at my house. Everything works with no errors. I have it directly plugged into my Aris Wifi router that is connected to my ISP.
I can not get the WAC510 to recognized my cousin's network when plugged directly into it. Her network is a Nighthawk Mesh system. I believe it is the dual band Wifi 6 version. When I power the access point and plug it in, the power light never moves beyond the yellow initial power cycle. I'm not sure where to look to see what is preventing it from connecting fully.
Any help with finding the roadblock is greatly appreciated.
When you turn on the power to the access point, the Power LED lights solid amber temporarily and then turns solid green, indicating that the startup procedure is complete and the access point is ready. If the Power LED remains solid amber and does not turn solid green, a failure occurred or the access point is malfunctioning. If the Power LED does not turn solid green, do the following: 1. Turn the power off and back on and wait several minutes to see if the access point recovers. 2. If the access point does not recover, you can use the Reset button to return the access point to its factory default settings. For more information, see Use the Reset button to reset the access point on page 196. If the error persists, a hardware problem might exist. For recovery instructions or help with a hardware problem, contact technical support at netgear.com/support.
It is just a simple ingenius wireless bridge, but for the time being I am just connecting directly to the router. The bridge is not in play until I get the Access Point communicating with the network.
I am just connecting directly to the router. The bridge is not in play until I get the Access Point communicating with the network.
When I connect to my home network the Access Point work just fine.
When i connect to the nighthawk, it does not get to the green stage.
All thing being equal it should work on both if directly connected. I suspect that there is something in the nighthawk that is preventing it from becoming active but I don't know what.
What modem/gateway is the mesh system connected to?
Why not try factory resetting the access point and connecting it to the nighthawk system and running setup? just seems like it could be something that you're doing when setting it up on your system that its causing a bad setting/issue.
