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So i have my main router, a R7900P, i just bought an AX1800 router. I have run a cat5 from the main wireless router to my office outside the house (well within the distance cable of doing so) when i hook up the AX1800 it will not accept a connection. The connections is good because that is what i am doing this now with from my laptop. What can i do to get the ne AX1800 to connect. I had an older netgear AX1800 that has been working fine for years in this setup and then all of a sudden it lost connection from the main router. When i deduced the jack was live and working i figured the original AX1800 had just died hence i bought the new one. No clue how to get this up and working.. help please
I got it fixed. Basically 1 wireless route connected to another via ethernet. Both routers just set up right out the box normally, each a stand alone independent wifi's. So I am thinking it was a firmware issue on the older 7900 I took both rax10's and set each up in the sake fashion updating the firmware and everything came right back up
So just switched the rax10 to be an access point. The router shows the orange light for no Internet. The router wifi names show up but will act like they are connecting bit will try for a bit and jump back off
So it's a fiber modem that is outside the house, the cat5 coming into the house to the main wireless router, then ethernet to the secondary wireless router that is set to AP that I have out in my office
@codymeche1972 wrote: So it's a fiber modem that is outside the house
What is that modem? Make and model?
As @microchip8 suggested, did you set the RAX10 to AP mode before you moved it to the office?
Is there any reason why you put the R7900P (2017) in the house and the RAX10 (2022) in the office? The RAX10 is a newer and more capable router. If the idea is just to get wifi in the office, a better option might be to swap these things around.
So the modem is in an enclosure mounted to the outside of my house by the ISP. Ethernet comes from directly to the 7900 router. It's was in there before I built the office. So the Rax10 I added when I ran ethernet from the 7900 to the office. Both were just set up standard and have been running fine for years until 2 days ago. Thinking the rax10 had gone bad because I pulled the feed and put it straight to my office laptop to see if that line was bad and it isn't. Put the new rax10 in set it up normally and still nothing, set the rax10 up as a AP after and still nothing. Switched ports at the 7900 also and still nothing. So I am at a loss
@codymeche1972 wrote: So the modem is in an enclosure mounted to the outside of my house by the ISP. Ethernet comes from directly to the 7900 router. It's was in there before I built the office.
Without knowing more, it is hard to diagnose what might be going on.
I'm still finding it hard to work out what you are doing.
Take this:
Both were just set up standard and have been running fine for years until 2 days ago.
What do you mean by "set up standard"?
Two routers?
Does the R7900P connect to the Internet?
Then this:
Switched ports at the 7900 also and still nothing.
Switched ports?
Switched what to what?
Troubleshooting is a painstaking process that work up the chain a step at a time, with a clear explanation of what is going on.
You also haven't answered various questions on the way that could help us to understand what is going on. But let's not muddy the issue any more. Start by telling is what goes on at the R7900P.
I got it fixed. Basically 1 wireless route connected to another via ethernet. Both routers just set up right out the box normally, each a stand alone independent wifi's. So I am thinking it was a firmware issue on the older 7900 I took both rax10's and set each up in the sake fashion updating the firmware and everything came right back up
