On 4/4/22 22:47, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 4/4/22 00:50, Samuel Sieb wrote:
If you connect the Nighthawk to the BGW210 using one of the LAN ports on the Nighthawk, everything would be on the 192.168.1.x subnet and you could use the same SSID on both devices. You would need to disable the DHCP server on the Nighthawk and most likely need to give the Nighthawk a static IP address on the LAN because they usually don't support getting it from DHCP.
At that point the Nighthawk would be just another switch, which doesn't seem helpful *or* secure.
It's helpful because he needed more wireless coverage. At least that was my understanding. The BGW210 is already doing NAT, so there's no further security (and much complication) to be gained with a second NAT. If he doesn't need the extra wifi, then the Nighthawk is redundant.