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XR500 in a lan to lan configuration - how to get the ntp working?
In order to get a few devices, eg printers, to work across the house, i set my XR500 up in a lan to lan configuation with the ISP modem/router. Modem/router is at 192.168.1.1, and XR500 is at 192.168...
> [...] i set my XR500 up in a lan to lan configuation with the ISP
> modem/router. [...]
Have you considered the potential advantages of using the documented
method of configuring the XR500 as a wireless access point, instead of
your ad hoc "lan to lan configuation"?
> Any ideas would be very much appreaciated!
You might start with an oft-neglected resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for
"Use the Router as a WiFi Access Point Only".
ah, I'll take a look at that, thanks! I have some ethernet connections at the XR500 as well; does making it an AP no longer permit the use of the ports?
michaelbeard99 wrote:
does making it an AP no longer permit the use of the ports?
Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support
The XR500 is an expensive "gaming router" with many added features that would doubtless disappear in AP mode.
Only you know if those features are important to you.
The ports would work, but probably not much else.
Let me try that again, thanks..
> [...] I can only get that to work when the XR500 is plugged into my
> modem/router though its WAN port."that"? In a forum like this, pronouns can get detached from their
antecedents.The hypothetical problem is that the router expects to contact an NTP
server using its WAN/Internet interface, whether it's in router mode or
WAP mode. That shouldn't be a problem for the documented WAP mode,
which uses the WAN/Internet interface for the connection to the
main-router LAN, but would be for your ad-hoc "lan to lan configuation".
> [...] many added features that would doubtless disappear in AP mode.Features which involve router functions don't work when the router is
disabled/bypassed. "Many added features", like, say, shared
USB-attached storage, shouldn't care. As that "Disabled Features" KB
article says.
> [...] probably not much else.Define "much else"? I'd go by the list in that KB article, and not
by vague assertions about "many added features" or "much else".
