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Replaced Nighthawk with Nighthawk. Now devices can't see each other.
I recently replaced an older Nighthawk router with a new R7800. I have updated the firmware and performed a factory reset. I was hoping that it would be relatively plug-and-play to remove the old o...
Thank you all for the help. I finally got it all working. It appears it was a combination of things. I did have some static IPs that needed changed. I also re-booted everything again, in the right order. (Not sure if this helped, but maybe the second time was the charm.)
For those of you who took the time to offer constructive help, thank you so much.
Dan32 wrote:
You need to switch it to a Public Network AND turn on Network Discovery and Filesharing on for it, on every Windows device you have connected.
Do you mean switch it to a private network?
As you said hasn't Windows already taken it into its head to do that?
My network is Private.
The OP says he swapped routers, that's a new MAC address so it's treated by Windows as a new public network, even via ethernet.
(Even if it's the same make and model is swapped in, same SSID's and passwords for Wifi, Windows will still see it as a new public network.)
In order to see devices and shares again, it needs to be set to a private network and network discovery and file and print sharing turned on. These are specific to eash registered network. Filesharing and network discovery can be turned on for public networks I believe, but that's not secure and not recommended.
I don't recall if Windows has an option to treat all networks as private, but if there is, that would not be recommended, especially for wireless laptops.