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WIRED AP on NETGEAR RAX20-100UK
I have purchased a NETGEAR RAX20-100UK as a one-for-one update on an existing "N" router currently acting as a wired AP on a fixed IP in a separate building (DHCP provided by ISP'S router, but local ...
Oren-123 wrote:Thanks for the help.
Used a mix of both suggestions:
ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Wireless AP
Select the Enable AP Mode check box
"Get dynamically from the existing router. The other router on the network assigns
an IP address to this router while it is in AP mode" - easily enough found on the ISP router's DHCP table.All straightforward & intuitive. Unfortunately, the ISP Router is a Linksys Velop which is "smart" and gets in the way of allocating fixed IPs (unless you accept its help and use one it has allocated from within the DHCP range).
As a result, I had to accept the IP it had allocated by the VELOP (which was within the DHCP range) - so couldn't transfer the N's IP to it. As the allocated (now fixed) IP was at the top of the DHCP range, I have been able to drop the DHCP allocation range down to exclude it.
As a note - I queried the VELOP problem on their forum & have had no feedback at all, so thanks again for the help.
Glad you got it working. You might try to set the fixed IP of the access point on the access point itself. It is in Advanced -> Setup -> LAN Setup. It does not hurt anything if that IP address is within the pool of possible DHCP assignments. Just restart the router.
Now you have your new access point in place and your new Wi-Fi bands available.
Suggest you mark this thread as solved.
Thanks for the help.
Used a mix of both suggestions:
ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Wireless AP
Select the Enable AP Mode check box
"Get dynamically from the existing router. The other router on the network assigns
an IP address to this router while it is in AP mode" - easily enough found on the ISP router's DHCP table.
All straightforward & intuitive. Unfortunately, the ISP Router is a Linksys Velop which is "smart" and gets in the way of allocating fixed IPs (unless you accept its help and use one it has allocated from within the DHCP range).
As a result, I had to accept the IP it had allocated by the VELOP (which was within the DHCP range) - so couldn't transfer the N's IP to it. As the allocated (now fixed) IP was at the top of the DHCP range, I have been able to drop the DHCP allocation range down to exclude it.
As a note - I queried the VELOP problem on their forum & have had no feedback at all, so thanks again for the help.
Oren-123 wrote:Thanks for the help.
Used a mix of both suggestions:
ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Wireless AP
Select the Enable AP Mode check box
"Get dynamically from the existing router. The other router on the network assigns
an IP address to this router while it is in AP mode" - easily enough found on the ISP router's DHCP table.All straightforward & intuitive. Unfortunately, the ISP Router is a Linksys Velop which is "smart" and gets in the way of allocating fixed IPs (unless you accept its help and use one it has allocated from within the DHCP range).
As a result, I had to accept the IP it had allocated by the VELOP (which was within the DHCP range) - so couldn't transfer the N's IP to it. As the allocated (now fixed) IP was at the top of the DHCP range, I have been able to drop the DHCP allocation range down to exclude it.
As a note - I queried the VELOP problem on their forum & have had no feedback at all, so thanks again for the help.
Glad you got it working. You might try to set the fixed IP of the access point on the access point itself. It is in Advanced -> Setup -> LAN Setup. It does not hurt anything if that IP address is within the pool of possible DHCP assignments. Just restart the router.
Now you have your new access point in place and your new Wi-Fi bands available.
Suggest you mark this thread as solved.