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DGND3700v2 as an AP
Hi, I'm trying to use a DGND3700v2 router as an AP and I'm having a very frustrating time with it. My main router is a Huawei F2000 fibre router. I have the 3700 connected to it via an ethern...
> [...] (using a LAN port on both).
The DGND3700v2 User Manual is vague on this, but some (many?) other
Netgear router models with a wireless-access-point option say to use the
WAN/Internet port on the router-as-WAP. (For example, D7000 and R7000.)
Does the DGND3700v2 management web site say anything helpful when you
select "AP Mode"?
> [...] 169.254.x.x (which indicates a DHCP issue of some sort) [...]
Yup. I know nothing, but if the DGND3700v2-as-WAP sends things like
DHCP broadcast requests out its WAN/Internet port only, then that might
explain something.
Hi,
antinode wrote:The DGND3700v2 User Manual is vague on this, but some (many?) other
Netgear router models with a wireless-access-point option say to use the
WAN/Internet port on the router-as-WAP. (For example, D7000 and R7000.)
Does the DGND3700v2 management web site say anything helpful when you
select "AP Mode"?
-- No, it didn't venture anything when I selected it but I'll switch the cable from LAN to WAN this evening and see what it does. But as I said, the current set up works most of time but sometimes it just stops working and I can't understand it.