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twrooke
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4 years ago

Can I connect wireless router w/200' of Cat5 to HT2000W to get signal on other side of house?

Hello, Can I connect the NETGEAR Nighthawk AC1900 Dual Band Gigabit Router (R7000) to 200' of Cat5 from the HT2000W to other side of house where the signal is poor?  1)  Will it work, will it affect...
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    GabeU
    4 years ago
    MarkJFine wrote:

     

    3. Some new routers are set to auto-update their firmware, which isn't really recommended. This is mainly because it will use data as this may happen often on new models. However, if the update doesn't work correctly it can end up auto-bricking it. I generally prefer doing those things manually so I can see what happens and not be surprised. If anything goes wrong it won't be happening while I'm sleeping.

    Excellent point.

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MarkJFine
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GabeU wrote:

Edit:  I should add that I'm not trying to replace or interfere with Mark's help.  I just didn't see him online at the time, so I figured I would reply with what I could answer.

Not a problem.

 

3. Some new routers are set to auto-update their firmware, which isn't really recommended. This is mainly because it will use data as this may happen often on new models. However, if the update doesn't work correctly it can end up auto-bricking it. I generally prefer doing those things manually so I can see what happens and not be surprised. If anything goes wrong it won't be happening while I'm sleeping.

 

4. As long as the router has 802.11ac and you're able to create an 80MHz wide channel on it you should be ok.  Again, this is just as long as there is no overlap in channel usage because they may interfere. I think an 80MHz wide channel actually uses four distinct 20MHz wide channels, so it's going to take a little bit of frequency management to avoid collisions with the modem's wifi.

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GabeU
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4 years ago
MarkJFine wrote:

 

3. Some new routers are set to auto-update their firmware, which isn't really recommended. This is mainly because it will use data as this may happen often on new models. However, if the update doesn't work correctly it can end up auto-bricking it. I generally prefer doing those things manually so I can see what happens and not be surprised. If anything goes wrong it won't be happening while I'm sleeping.

Excellent point.