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Nighthawk AX8 AX6000 (RAX75) - Wireless Bridge
Hey all!
Hoping someone can assist me here.
I have a Nighthawk AX8 AX6000 (RAX75) that I use as my primary router in my home. The issue I've run into as a renter - I have multiple devices in my garage that need to have a hardline ethernet connection, and I cannot run a wire to put a switch outside.
My solution was to use a Linksys access point I have laying around from work, and "bridge" it to the Nighthawk, and then I would have ethernet connections available in the garage.
For the life of me I cannot find where in the menu of the Nighthawk to make that happen. I set up the same style of bridge in Linksys frequently, and didn't think it would be an issue. I'm hoping that this Nighthawk is even capable of this connection.
For my Nighthawk -
Firmware version - v1..0.10.140
Running a 2G and 5G connection both being WPA3 - Personal.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I'm a bit of a novice and am wanting to learn all I can from this situation.
Thanks!
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You'd be contacting Linksys to get help on putting there product into wireless bridge mode, not the RAX router.
Make sure the Linksys router supports or can connect to a WPA2 signal with mixed WPA3 mode enabled. I know that if mixed mode is enabled, some older model wifi router that support wireless bridge mode, won't connect at all if mixed mode is enabled. They will if you set WPA2 only. I know my R7000 and R7800 and R9000 won't connect when WPA3 is present on the signal.
- I was worried about the WPA-3 part, I haven't gotten that far yet.
The main issue is I can't even find where to connect it via the Nighthawk menu. I tried WPS with no luck.
Is there another place I should check in the Nighthawk menu?You'll need to set up the Linksys for wireless bridge mode if your wanting to use it's LAN ports for ethernet connections thru it while it's connected to the NG router.
