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Top floor WN604 wireless AP wired to wifi router downstairs
Hi I'd be grateful for a bit of simple network advice. I live in a tall house. The master phone socket is on the ground floor and I've installed a Netgear DGN2200v3 ASDL wireless router with the...
To Skinnes and Forum users,
I have written this article, which should be of assistance.
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24198
Yes, you set up as a wireless access point, with a cabled connection coming from your router. If the DGN has an IP of 192.168.0.1, keep the first 3 set of digits (octets), and change the last, eg 192.168.0.200 for the access point.
A repeater/ wireless extender is where the 2nd device receives the wireless signal from the router, and extends/ repeats. This will work on the same floor, but not in your situation where you have no signal on the top floor.
Your other questions were answered in earlier posts.
Online Tickets can be submitted to Netgear support through this link>>
http://support.netgear.com/general/contact/default.aspx
but site experience from Forum users is of value too.
Regards,
Marto :)
I have written this article, which should be of assistance.
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24198
Yes, you set up as a wireless access point, with a cabled connection coming from your router. If the DGN has an IP of 192.168.0.1, keep the first 3 set of digits (octets), and change the last, eg 192.168.0.200 for the access point.
A repeater/ wireless extender is where the 2nd device receives the wireless signal from the router, and extends/ repeats. This will work on the same floor, but not in your situation where you have no signal on the top floor.
Your other questions were answered in earlier posts.
Online Tickets can be submitted to Netgear support through this link>>
http://support.netgear.com/general/contact/default.aspx
but site experience from Forum users is of value too.
Regards,
Marto :)