Majaem Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Hello. I was wondering if anyone can help me out. I just bought a NetdumaR2 router to play videos games. I have an existing Nighthawk X8. I would to make my Nighthawk X8 the main router and the NetdumaR2 for my gaming. I looked at YouTube for some videos as to to how to connect 2 routers together. I found some but where not really helpful. If anyone has come up with this issue and resolved. Please let me know what you did. Or if you have any advise please let me know. Thank you.. Majaem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippy Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 Hey Majaem! Welcome to the forum! You can have a setup like that.. But if you do set it up like that you wont get the optimal performance out of the QoS of the R2. And that is because the R2 cant control what isnt connected directly to it.. More specific BB control.. Hopefully that makes sense.. One would take and connect the R2s WAN port to one of the LAN ports of the X8.. Once that has been done proceed to the R2 and go through the setup wizard of the R2 and establish a connection.. Once that is done you would take the R2s WAN IP address that is displayed on the main Dashboard of the R2 and add that address into the DMZ feature of the X8.. At that point you should be all good to go.. It also is recommended to set a static reserve for the R2 in the X8.. Just so the R2s WAN address always stays the same.. One side note.. You likely will have to connect a laptop or PC directly to the R2 in order to go through the setup wizard of the R2.. And also to access the R2s UI there after.. I dont think one could be connected to the X8 and log into the Dashboard of the R2.. I personally havent ever tried what your doing to know myself.. This is what your setup would look like.. Modem>X8>R2>Gaming Device.. Good luck! Feel free to post back if you have more questions! Zippy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted April 17, 2021 Administrators Share Posted April 17, 2021 Hey, welcome to the forum! Great advice above. As mentioned, that won't be the most optimal setup to get the most out of the R2. You could do modem > R2 > X8 and put the X8 in AP mode, that way you'd benefit from the X8 WiFi and all devices can be controlled by the R2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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