10-10-2021, 03:56 PM
Space,
Exactly. That's why I brought it up because many people don't realize you have to change a setting to activate bridge mode. Routers aren't in bridge mode out of the box. You have to go into the settings and activate it.
That was the case when I used an Apple Airport base station with the router provided by Verizon for my home. Had to put the Airport base station into bridge mode. Same goes when I removed the Apple router and replaced it with a Netgear Orbi. Had to put the Orbi into bridge mode. A friend just bought a Netgear Nighthawk mesh system and had to put it into bridge mode for use with the modem-router provided by Optimum for service in his home.
Unfortunately, some mesh systems don't offer bridge mode as an option. An older Google Mesh Network system owned by a friend of mine suffered from this flaw. It didn't have the feature. This was just a couple of years ago. Maybe Google has updated the system since that time.
Robert
Exactly. That's why I brought it up because many people don't realize you have to change a setting to activate bridge mode. Routers aren't in bridge mode out of the box. You have to go into the settings and activate it.
That was the case when I used an Apple Airport base station with the router provided by Verizon for my home. Had to put the Airport base station into bridge mode. Same goes when I removed the Apple router and replaced it with a Netgear Orbi. Had to put the Orbi into bridge mode. A friend just bought a Netgear Nighthawk mesh system and had to put it into bridge mode for use with the modem-router provided by Optimum for service in his home.
Unfortunately, some mesh systems don't offer bridge mode as an option. An older Google Mesh Network system owned by a friend of mine suffered from this flaw. It didn't have the feature. This was just a couple of years ago. Maybe Google has updated the system since that time.
Robert