I’m trying to setup wifi for my parents guest house behind their home it’s going to be a separate wifi connection I had understood this would be possible by connecting a second router to the main one through Ethernet and setting it up in AP mode. I purchased a NightHawk AX6 plugged the Ethernet into the yellow internet port and it had no internet so I logged into the setup menu and I put it into AP mode still no internet and now I can’t log back into the admin panel at all through the 192.168.1.1 address have I gravely messed this up looking for advice.
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I haven’t done it before but I would have to imagine when you changed it to AP mode it changed the devices IP address to avoid conflict with the main router.
Try going and logging into your main router in the house and look at the attached devices. See what the new IP address is.
I’m talking out of my ass right now though
if you can’t get back into the second(?) router then perform a factory-reset on it – which is super-easy and even experts do it all the time to get themselves out of trouble! There’s usually a little button you have to push with a ballpoint pen…
Then figure out exactly what you’re doing before you make changes to any settings.
From my read of your post, you want to have a secondary wifi network in another dwelling and have it get it’s internet from the primary dwelling. Is that right?
Or are you just trying to extend the primary wifi network to another building by having an access point there that merely links back to the primary?
To use the second router as an access point, putting into access point mode may be only part of the settings. You might need to manually assign it a different ip address such as 192.168.1.2 or 192.168.1.255 -- you have to get it out of the DHCP range of the primary.
Provide more details and you can get more detailed help :)