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wifi bridge

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I have one R7500v2 - Nighthawk. I need another router to configure as a wifi bridge or become my main router and use the Nighthawk as the bridge. I want to use all the AC bandwidth (1733 Mbps) the Nighthawk will offer and MU-MIMO. What do you recommend? The connection will be from the first floor of a house straight up to the second floor.
 
Yes. I want the main router downstairs to connect to the a second configured as a bridge on the second floor. I am doing it now, but only using 150Mbps wireless N connection. I would like to fully utilized the Nighthawk. Not to mention my internet speed is faster than what that wireless N connection can handle.

So I am looking for some recommended routers that can easily be configured as a bridge. Something that will fully use the Nighthawk, but not some beast of a router with 8 antennas that I would never use.
 
Serious answer? Get another Nighthawk, flash Tomato or DD-WRT on it, and configure wireless ethernet bridge on one of them.

Edit: Though, I'm not familiar with the hardware differences between R7000v1 and v2, you would have to research that.
 
Not every combination Routers can form a Bridge connection, it needs Routers that has compatible chipset and support Bridge mode in their firmware, or Router that can be flashed with DD-WRT.

AFAIK the Archer 7 is compatible with DD-WRT and it less than $100 (https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/TP_Link_Archer_C7 ).

I do not know about specifically about the R7500v2 (Problem during the Wireless years made me "Allergic" to Netgear).




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I used to run a WDS setup with DD-WRT on three Netgear WNR2000v2 (Broadcom hardware) N300 routers.

Then, I moved to Tomato on some E2500 (v1, I think) Cisco routers, using wireless bridge mode.

Now, I've got a single Asus RT-N12/D1 with Tomato MultiWAN, and an AC1200 access point with gigabit LAN, connected to my gigabit wired LAN. (My internet connection is less than 100Mbit.)

Getting the same model (and sub-model!) router, and flashing both the main and sub router with the SAME third-party firmware, basically eliminates the compatibility issues that could arise, from a mixed-router or mixed-firmware environment. (But still doesn't eliminate the possibility of bugs in the third-party firmware. There usually are a few.)
 
I don't really need to flash DD-WRT. The Nighthawk I have now will function as a wireless bridge. So, I know getting another one of those would work. I guess I should just do that.
 
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