Can't login to my Nighthawk when it's in bridge mode

[HansVanMeurs]

I've setup my R7000 in bridgemode. It now picks up my mobile hotspot fromml my cellphone and enables internet to my wired supplies correctly.
But since I've switched it in bridge mode I am not able to login (as administrator) to my R7000 anymore. I use a wired connection of course.
Is anyone familiar to this issue, and how do I solve the problem?

[antinode]

> [...] since I've switched it in bridge mode I am not able to login (as
> administrator) to my R7000 anymore. [...]

   "not able" is not a useful problem description.  It does not say what
you did.  It does not say what happened when you did it.  As usual,
showing actual actions (commands) with their actual results (error
messages, LED indicators, ...) can be more helpful than vague
descriptions or interpretations.

> [...] I use a wired connection of course.

   And some URL or other in a web browser?

   In a non-router mode (wireless access point or bridge), a router like
this will get a new/different LAN IP address, and may or may not be able
to intercept a "routerlogin" name, so you'd need to determine its
new/different LAN IP address, and use that in your web browser.

   Presumably, the router-as-bridge got its new/different LAN IP address
from (the DHCP server in) your main router ("my mobile hotspot fromml my
cellphone", so I'd look there for some kind of "Attached Devices" or
"DHCP Clients" report which would reveal that address.

[HansVanMeurs]

Thanks for your reply.

     I tried to login using a wire between my laptop (OS windows 10) and the R7000 (slot 1 of 4). I started my Firefox browser and tried to get the administrator login "http://www.routerlogin.net". But I didn't get any connection at all, neither using "http(s)://www.routerlogin.com", "192.168.0.1", nor "192.168.1.1".
     As said before I use my Android cellphone (Samsung S20 Ultra 5G) as a mobile hotspot for my R7000 to login to. By the way: that gives a working Internet access to my laptop and other wired devices for browsing the Internet. But not for getting access to my R7000's settings, being the problem we are discussing right now.

Your analysis look very accurate:
     'Presumably, the router-as-bridge got its new/different LAN IP address from (the DHCP server in) your main router ("my mobile hotspot from my
cellphone")'
     This might be the very problem: at setting the R7000 as bridge I got a (general?) warning from my R7000 saying "Change the IP-address of your computer manually, in case the LAN-IP subnet is changed". But IS it changed? How do I detect that?

Presuming this causes the problem indeed, you suggest:
     '...so I'd look there for some kind of "Attached Devices" or "DHCP Clients" report which would reveal that address'.

      I don't know how and where to find these settings: on my laptop? On my hotspot cellphone? On both?
And into what values should I change the LAN-IP subnet?

     I used the windows help, and my android's help, but couldn't get any valid help entry by the words "DHCP" nor "LAN-IP subnet".

[antinode]

> don't know how and where to find these settings: on my laptop? On my
> hotspot cellphone? On both?

   I'd look at your (unspecified) "my hotspot cellphone", about which I
know nothing.  It is what is acting as the wireless router.

> And into what values should I change the LAN-IP subnet?

   I wouldn't change anything; just try to learn the address of the
router-as-bridge.  (I never mentioned "subnet".)

> [...] my android's help [...]

   I know nothing, but I'd try a Web search for terms like, say:

      android hotspot connected devices

[HansVanMeurs]

Finally, it's solved.

Via my Android phone I could  find my R7000's IP-address. Somehow it is changed into 192.168.183.179.

It is still not possibile to login via www.routerlogin.net (or .com).

But via that IP-address I could login to my R7000 router in bridge mode.

I have no idea why this address differs form the usual addres 192.168.1.1.

Thanks for your help.

For other desperate dummies: the menu sequence on your Android phone to get info about a connected device is:

Settings | Connections | Mobile Hotspot and Tethering | Mobile Hotspot
and there you tap the device you want the info from. It shows the IP-address and MAC-address.

Thanks for your help.

[antinode]

> I have no idea why this address differs form the usual addres
> 192.168.1.1.

   It differs because "192.168.1.1" is the default address for an R7000
in _router_ mode, and you're using it in _bridge_ mode.  In router mode,
the R7000 is the master of your LAN; in bridge mode, it's a client
device, and your hotspot (router) is the master.

[HansVanMeurs]

So this means the subnet 183 is decided by my cell phone (because thát is the router at the moment).

Strange indeed. I have no idea how to set this to an ordinary value in my Android.

[antinode]

> So this means the subnet 183 is decided by my cell phone (because thát
> is the router at the moment).

   That's my claim.

> Strange indeed. [...]

   It's not the Netgear default value, but why should it be?  It might
be smarter to avoid conflicts with common values.

> [...] I have no idea how to set this to an ordinary value in my
> Android.

   Define "ordinary".  Why do you care?  I probably know even less about
Android than you; I could only guess at how it chooses that number.

   Time for a Web search?  (Perhaps: android hotspot IP address)