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oberhasligirl's avatar
oberhasligirl
Aspirant
Jul 27, 2016

Connecting old netgear router (as a repeater) to C3700 router/cable modem

I purchased a C3700 Cable modem/Router because I was tired to paying rental fees....anyway I had cameras hooked up through mini repeaters to reach back to the main unit.  I was going to use my old router as a repeater (WNDR3400v2) and I have set it up as a repeater....but how do I get the new router to see it?  On the old router it has a setting for making it the base in that situation, but I am not seeing that setting on the new router.

 

Any ideas?

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3 Replies

  • DarrenM's avatar
    DarrenM
    Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
    Jul 29, 2016

    Hello oberhasligirl

     

    Are you saying the router is not showing up in the Attached devices tab of the C3700?

     

    DarrenM

    • oberhasligirl's avatar
      oberhasligirl
      Aspirant
      Jul 30, 2016

      Hi Darren,

       

      No it is not.  I set it up as a repeater and it had a place to enter the MAC address from the base.  I did this, but it does not show up on the devices attached to the network.

      • DarrenM's avatar
        DarrenM
        Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
        Aug 01, 2016

        Hello oberhasligirl 

         

        Since it is only repeating the signal of the main router and assigning the devices attached to it a IP it would not show up in the main routers attached devices.

         

        DarrenM