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Hardwire the EX7000 instead of wirelessly connecting to the router?
I’m going to try my best to explain my current situation as best as possible since I’m not entirely tech savvy or literate. My current situation is that there are devices that need to be hardwired but the devices are located in separate rooms. One device in my room and one in my brother’s. Now I know that I can use the EX7000 to wirelessly connect to my router and just use the Ethernet ports but doing that cuts down on download speeds. So I was wondering if I can use the Ethernet port in my room and plug the extender into that so I won’t have to wirelessly connect to the router? The current set up is that we have Frontier FiOS and the ONT box is located in our garage. Not sure what that means but the employee from BestBuy said it acts as the modem so that all the Ethernet ports our house can support a router without the need of an actual modem. So currently, all we currently have the Nighthawk X6 plugged into the Ethernet port in my brother’s room and is producing a Wifi signal with internet. We now both have desktops that have no Wifi adapters. So in order to use the internet on our computer we need to be wired. We used to share a room so it was never a problem since the router was in our room but now that we have our own rooms, he kept the router while I have no possible way of accessing internet via wired connection. Since we both game, we prefer a wired connection overall for the best performance. Hence the reason why we never purchased a Wifi adapter for our PC. While trying to look up a solution for my problem, I was constantly seeing answers like using the EX7000 as an access point. However, instructions say to plug it in to a router, which defeats my purpose of buying the extender in the first place since the extender would need to be located in my brother’s room. So long story short, can I hardwire the EX7000 using the Ethernet port in my room so that it can provide internet to my devices that need to be hardwired into the extender?
Trying to set up DG834N router as wireless access point for an ethernet printer across Virgin WiFi.
Hello all. I've spent the last few days trawling the advice and instructions given on the web and attempting to complete this task, with much unplugging, replugging and typing of ip addresses. It seems there are lots of tutorials to set this system up with the 2nd router/access point finally being connected via ethernet to the main router but I can't do that at present and I want to know if the 2nd router/access point can be set up wirelessly? Firstly I'm Mac based OS 10.11 with a Virgin SuperHub2 as my main router and here's what i'm trying to do. I have an old DG834N router. My iMac is in my basement and my virgin router is in the room above. The iMac networking is via wifi and works fine across the dual bands. I don't have wired cabling down into my basement & I suspect the electrical ring is seperate to that above ground and therefore powerlines may not work. I recently acquired a ethernet printer (HP officejet 4500 G510g). I want to set up the DG834N as a wireless access point/repeater/bridge in order to connect the ethernet printer and then access this via the iMac and as a networked printer? I've been into the DG834N and done a factory reset (a few times), updated the firmware, set the LAN ip details to match my main virgin router SSID, WPA2, Password, Channel, disabled DCHP and selected a WDS system, most times as a wireless repeater. The furthest I have got is setting up all these details and then attempting to find the printer on the network on my iMac. I presume I need to create a second wifi setting in my network settings with a static ip address and subnet to match the DG834N settings. On occasion the iMac has seen the printer but when I try to install the printer it can't because of network issues as the second static ip address has seemingly 'knocked out' or conflicted with the original 2.4ghz wifi. When I try and seperate the wifi details it changes both at the same time i.e if I try to set the main wifi to 5G it changes the printer wifi to 5G too and the router/printer will only use 2.4g. I've tried to set up a seperate location in my network setting but it still behaves the same way. Also I get frequent, 'another device is using this ip address' messages. I have also re-booted my main router a few times and slowly restarted each device one by one. Oh and I've also connected the printer directly to the iMac to install it in a hope that this would facilitate things if I solved the network problems. Unfortunately I cannot leave the printer directly connected to the iMac permanently as there's not enough space, cabling, power etc. I realise there's a lot of different stumbling blocks (Gotcha's?) in this setup but I'd appreciate any help you can give. ThanksNetgear wn3000rpv3 not connecting to router via ethernet
So here is my challenge: I have Belkin Router and a netgear wn3000rpv3 extender. the extnder is able to connect to the router fine through wifi and I am able to connect to my devices as well as long as I set it up as an extender. I have a 75mbps connection. by the time I get to my device via the extender.. the speeds are dropping to like 2 to 4 mbps. Hence I thought I will get a cable pulled from my router to my extender. which I did.. and here starts the challenge. My extender is not able to connect to the router as an access point. It just keeps saying " The extender can't connect to the router'. I tried a manual setup using a static Ip. but to no avail. I dont get internet from the extender. My belkin router details are as follows: IP : 192.168.2.1 Mask: 255.255.255.0 DHCP enabled from 192.168.2.2 to 192.168.2.200 Need some help and assistance of how I can setup the access point throught ethernet so I can hget faster speeds. Regards, PK.Amazon says EX2700 can be used as access point, thru software switch (it has no hardware AP switch)
Also, I have gathered from a few Amazon reviewers that EX2700 can easily be set up in AP Mode, by simply connecting it to wireless modum/router with ethernet cable. Can someone here provide or point me to a simple step-by-step procedure for setting up my new EX2700 (Essentials Edition) as a wireless access point? Thanks in advance for any help. hl-louisianaTrouble setting up extender as access point with Xfinity modem/router
I have been unable to set up the above extender as an access point. I have an Arris Xfinity (on the X1 platform) modem which also functions as a router. I connected the modem/router to the extender with an ethernet cord as instructed, then attempted to connect to the extender. This brought me to the webpage to set up as either an extender or access point. I selected access point. After doing that I received a message telling me that a connection could not be established with the router, which is where I am stuck. I am not sure if it's something with the Xfinity modem that prevents me from setting it up in this manner, and have been unable to find anything addressing this specific issue. Any insight would be much appreciated.WNDR4000 as an Access Point
Hi, I've setup my Netgear Router as a wireless Access Point & when I log in & look at connected devices, they all show up as Wired Devices & they are the same devices as my Router shows. Is this correct? I have the Netgear SSID set to the same as my Router & a static IP address. I can log into either one, but not sure I have it setup correctly?? Any ideas? ThanksNighthawk R7000 - Doesn't reach far enough; do I need a more powerful router, or add an Access Point
Just bought a Nighthawk R7000 to improve my WIFI signal, but it didn't work. Not a super long distance (about 35'), but apparently too many walls in between the router location and the laptop location. Not a heavy user of devices--just looking for a super fast signal (my hardwired computer averages 100mbps). Will upgrading to a more powerful router solve my issue, or should I install an Access Point? I have a direct ethernet connection to most of the rooms in my home, so hard-wiring a second device would be pretty straightforward. If an Access Point is the answer, and suggestions on specific products would be appreciated. I know nothing about them. Thanks!