I have purchased an EX 6200 to use as a wired WiFi access point. Before I did this I called Netgear Support to make sure it supported this type of operation. I was assured it did. I was very clear about how I wanted to set it up. Now that I have the unit there appears to be no way to set it up in this configuration. Can anyone help, or am I wasting my time trying.

I fell a bit foolish really, it does work as an A/P. I plugged the EX6200 into my router in one of the 5 ports and my PC into another and then turned the EX6200 on. I opened IE and it went straight to the EX6200 set up page. It had a quick look at how it was connected and up popped two boxes "EXT" and "AP". I ticked AP and then went on to set up SSID, encryption, passwords etc... Works wellThanks

The hard reset after the downgrade/update is just to clear out any possible faulty changes to the settings.

Hi RobinB, The EX6200 does not support AP mode to wire to your router. How would you like to set up your network?

Sorry for the confusion. Glad you got it working!

I am using the EX 6200 as a wired access point but it seems devices connected to the EX 6200 access point cannot communicate with devices connected directly to the router - even though they are on the same subnet? For example if I ping a device on connected to the router (on ip address 192.168.1.12) from my macbook connected to the EX 6200 (on ip address 192.168.1.45) there is no reply. But it works OK if I connect the macbook to the router's wireless newtork (on ip address 192.168.1.45 ). Have you seen this issue? I am running Firmware Version V1.0.1.60_1.1.98. There is a later version but when I installed it the GUI was different and I couldn't see an option for Access Point(Wired) so I down graded again. Any help would be appreciated.

EX 6200 as ethernet wired access point

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nhann
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 26, 2015
Hi RobinB,

The EX6200 does not support AP mode to wire to your router.

How would you like to set up your network?
- RobinB
  Initiate
  Aug 26, 2015
  I fell a bit foolish really, it does work as an A/P.
  
  I plugged the EX6200 into my router in one of the 5 ports and my PC into another and then turned the EX6200 on. I opened IE and it went straight to the EX6200 set up page.
  
  It had a quick look at how it was connected and up popped two boxes "EXT" and "AP". I ticked AP and then went on to set up SSID, encryption, passwords etc...
  
  Works well
  Thanks
  - nhann
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Aug 27, 2015
    Sorry for the confusion. Glad you got it working!

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EX 6200 as ethernet wired access point