Hey all...I have an R8000 Nighthawk router and recently added an EX7700 to extend my WiFi into the back yard. I have the EX7700 hardwired in my detached garage (about 60' away from the house) and I believe, due to the signal meters on my wifi camera's, that its working fine. Here's where I have questions...going to preface these questions as I am not an IT/Network guy as well as the two question (I don't believe) have nothing to do with each other...just trying to get some knowledge!
I have the R8000 and EX7700 both in my Nighthawk app. The R8000 show me all the attached devices, including the EX7700. The "Network Map" icon has where I can select either to review...when I select the EX7700 and go to attached/connected devices, it does not show any there. I understand the principal of extending my wifi SSID and connection, but is this the case to where none of the devices connected to my network will not show up as an "attached/connected" device in my EX7700 listings? Not a big deal as I said, everything seems to be fine...my OCD is just questioning.
With my R8000...I have approximately (44) WiFi devices attached/connected throughout both the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands (10 more devices wired in via a Netgear 16 port 1GB switch). I've moved as many devices that I can over to the 5Ghz...but am having problems with keeping the 2.4 devices connected as it seems like I'm out of "spots". If I reboot, it's basically who can get connected first, gets a spot. Seems to me that this 1-1/2 year old Nighthawk tri-band AC3200 router should "allow" more devices - anyone know "what gives"??
If the R8000 is the "issue", is there another router you recommend, outside of going to the Orbi setup as coverage is not really my problem these days? TIA
R8000 = v1.0.4.68...I will say, after the last few firmware updates, services have tanked quite a bit.
EX7700 = v1.0.0.206
Currently, I have (28) devices on 2.4, (8) devices on 5-1 band & (10) devices on 5-2 band. Then I have (10) devices wired. I just don't get it...I should be way below the limitations of this device.
the r8000 should support that many devices by itself. maybe its the issue. some of the r8000's struggled with the firmware that has armor integrated.
Try installing version 1.0.4.28 of the firmware to the r8000 over a hardwired connection. Once it reboots, do a factory reset and a clean install. Then disable auto-updates.
Well, not sure what happened, but now I cannot even open the R8000 main menu/control panel. I loaded the rollback FW and let it reboot, then factory reset as you suggested and waited for it to fire back up...now, nothing. Hardwired laptop is stating that the 192.168.1.1 didn't send any data. Totally stuck. Any suggestions??
what are the led's on the front doing? and the power light?
If you rebooted/reset to soon after installing the firrmwarem the firmware might not have been fully loaded and it could have corrupted it. If that's the case, you'd need to use tftp or nmrpflash to recover it.
