Long story short, the Ethernet port on my AX11000 got fried during a lightning event. I am wondering if there is a way I can essentially use this router as a range extender, instead of it sitting on...

So I see firmware for 1.0 and 1.6, but my hardware version is 1.26 as labeled on the device. Does this count as 1.0? I'm having some issues where it started to want to drop out one of the 5g bands...