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AtomG
Aspirant
Sep 28, 2012

Cannot access N300 configuration

Our notebook computer which is fairly new and downstairs from our wireless dsl modem began having connectivity problems. Since the router is fairly old, I decided to install a new wireless access point in case the modem was the problem. My home network has 5 computers 4 wired and 1 wireless. I've connected the modem to LAN1 on the N300 and one of the other computers to LAN2. I was able to access the router setup once and turned off DHCP (the local ip had been set to 10.0.0.1). Right now everything is working, but I can no longer access the N300 setup through the browser. I was not able to do all the setup according to directions I was following, so I wanted to go back and finish or at least check it, but I can no longer get a logon prompt for it. It shows up on the network as a device with a local ip(192.168.1.95), but I cannot ping that ip or get into it. Do I have to reset the N300 and start over to get into the configuration or what?

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  • AtomG's avatar
    AtomG
    Aspirant
    Sep 29, 2012
    jmizoguchi wrote:
    N300 is NOT access point
    N300 is NOT model #
    N300 is N router

    belongs to
    http://forum1.netgear.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33


    Sorry about the incorrect title; I now see that it's really a WNR2000. I'll briefly describe what I did to get it working.

    1. I did a factory reset on the WNR2000 and hooked it directly to a computer using one of the LAN ports. I was able to login using the default login ip.
    2. I changed the WiFi to channel 11 because my other is on channel 6.
    3. I set the ipa to 192.168.1.253 and disabled DHCP. I saved this and powered it off.
    4. Then I logged into my dsl modem and changed its DHCP range from this (192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.253) to this (192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.252).
    5. I connected my dsl modem/router to LAN1 of the WNR2000 and one of my computers to LAN2 of the WNR2000.
    6. I powered up the WNR2000 and everything worked.

    I don't know if this is all exactly right, but it works.