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AC750 Wireless Travel Router Hotspot from 5 Ghz wifi
AC750 Wireless Travel Router Hotspot from 5 Ghz wifi
2019-09-27 03:31:46

Hi,

 

I'have just settled down in a hotel with a public wifi connexion, this connexion is offered in 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz.

I bought a tp-link AC750 to have my own private network for my devices and getting the internet through it (hotspot mode), and it works fine while it is connected to the 2.4 Ghz wifi.

But when I want to connect it to the 5Ghz wifi, the AC750 become unable to get an IP adress from the public Wifi, while all other devices can.

 

Does anyone can confirm that it can be used as a hotspot while connected to a 5Ghz wifi ?

 

What could be wrong in my configuration ?

 

thanks

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Re:AC750 Wireless Travel Router Hotspot from 5 Ghz wifi
2019-09-27 07:35:09

@yde 

 

What is the model number of the AC750? Is it TL-WR902AC? 

 

Does hotel wifi supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz both or just one of them at once? 

 

What is the operation mode of the router? With it connected to the hotel 5ghz wifi, please connect your computer to it and click here to check the IP address and gateway. 

 

And try to login to the web UI of the router and show us a screenshot of the status page; In the meantime, go to system tools-system log to save it and export to us. 

 

Besides, as long as you connect the router to the hotel 2.4GHz, it still broadcasts 2.4GHz and 5GHz. So you can connect it to the 2.4GHz to make it work.

 

Good day. 

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Re:AC750 Wireless Travel Router Hotspot from 5 Ghz wifi
2019-09-27 14:21:39 - last edited 2019-09-27 14:23:14

@Kevin_Z thanks for your answer.

 

The model of the router is : Model No. TL-WR902AC

 

The hotel offers 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz at the same time but I'm not sur if a device can be connected to it on both frenquences at the same time, my router is always connected to one of them.

 

The operation mode of the router is "Share Hotspot" (that's what it is writen on the switch on the router).

 

Here is my IP adress when I am connected to the router and it connected to the 5Ghz

Ip adress : 192.168.0.101

Gateway : 192.168.0.1

 

I have the same result when the router is connected to the 2.4Ghz

 

Here is a screenshot of the status page when it is connected to the 2.4Ghz :


 

 

Same page but 5Ghz wifi :

 

 

And the log file, I switch from 2.4Ghz from 5Ghz at 9am 2019-09-27

File:
log.txtDownload
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Re:AC750 Wireless Travel Router Hotspot from 5 Ghz wifi
2019-09-30 08:38:36

@yde 

 

Hello, thanks for your rpely. From the picture attached, there is no WAN IP address when you connect the router to the 5GHz of the hotel wifi, that is why you failed to get internet from the router.

 

Below is the instruction to configure the TL-WR902AC as a hotspot router. 

https://www.tp-link.com/support/faq/2032/

 

Unlike range extender mode, it can connect to one of the root AP's wifi at once; in oter word, it can connect to either 2.4GHz, or 5GHz. NOT both. 

 

How did you switch it from 2.4GHz to 5GHz? Try to hard reset it and login to the web UI and configure it as the hotspot router. This time, please select the 5GHz and verify whether it works.

 

Still the same, you can connect your computer to the TL-WR902AC to clone the mac address and give it a go. 

 

Otherwise, you may need connect it to the 2.4GHz to get internet as a workaround.

Note: The router will broadcast both 2.4GHz and 5GHz even though it connects to the 2.4GHz only. 

 

Good day. 

 

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Re:AC750 Wireless Travel Router Hotspot from 5 Ghz wifi
2020-04-17 23:54:28

@Kevin_Z 

I just purchased this model for this same use case and this is a deal breaker.

 

I have run into this same issue. Firmware is the latest. If I use hotspot router and set it up to extend a 2.4 GHz signal everything works great. no problem. Restore it and set it up to extend a 5 GHz signal it will not pickup a WAN IP address no matter what I do. Even if I bind the mac address, no dice.

If I take the travel router out of the equation and connect directly to the same 5GHz signal that I'm trying to extend my laptop gets an IP address no problem and I'm connected to the internet at 5GHz and working just fine.

 

This essentially makes the Wireless AC aspect of this router useless as I'm always bound to bgn speeds in the 2.4GHz frequency since those are the only networks I can rebroadcast. it's not helpful to rebroadcast a 2.4GHz signal out 5 GHz as it doesn't give me any additional speed (I tested) because the bottleneck is in the connection from the travel router to the root AP.

 

 

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Re:AC750 Wireless Travel Router Hotspot from 5 Ghz wifi
2020-05-03 17:45:07

@Kevin_Z 

 

I just purchased one of these as a work around to connect to my in car wifi, it will only connect 5G devices and i was hoping to use it to give me the 2.4 access with no luck because it will not connect to the 5G of the vehicle. It will not even recognize during its scan. It does see it as 2.4 and connect but not give any internet access.

 

I even tried it on my home wifi which runs both 2.4 and 5, connected with no issues to the 2.4 but i get the same IP results you do when trying to connect 5G.

 

Looks like i wasted money on something that wont work due to the lack of ability to get an IP when connecting to a 5G BSSID.

 

yes i did check the firmware and runing the latest availble from 1/16/2020

 

I tried to do a static IP as i can see what IP other devices pull and no luck there either. If there is no work aroung to get this to lock on to 5G let me know and i will start the process to return it to Amazon

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