I have purchased a WN604 access point to provide wireless networking in my home. I have a cable modem (Cisco DPC3825) from my ISP (Mediacom) that works fine as a router/gateware for wired connections.My plan is to connect the WN604 to my cable modem as a wireless access point (not as a router) so I can use my laptop wirelessly from another room. The problem is that I have configured my WN604 as a DHCP client, but it is not connecting successfully to the network.What can I do to connect the WN604 to my network so I can use it as a wireless access point?

I have a WLAN (blue) light that indicates wireless activity, but no LAN (green/amber) light indicating a connection to the router.

You either have a problem with the cable, the ports or speed/duplex negotiation - try a known good cable, try a different port on the router, one that you can test as working with another device, if those don't work try connecting the access point to a switch or PC to verify if the port on the access point itself is functional - this last might require a cross over cable.Remember - what we're looking for is link lights - without a link there can be no communication.

It turns out that the LAN link light is actually on. I was reading the lights incorrectly at first. Sorry about that.However, the access point still isn't connecting to the network, so it seems like this more likely a configuration problem than a hardware problem, yes? Any suggestions?

http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WN604/WN604_UM_14Oct11.pdfPage 12Launch a web browser and enter http://192.168.0.230 in the address field. You are prompted to log in:reset the unit and connect pc directly to the unit. setup static IP on pc and try access it

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21 Replies

jmizoguchi
Virtuoso
Jun 20, 2013
Dishing out private ip then should work
brianberns
Aspirant
Jun 20, 2013
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "dishing out private ip". Can you clarify? Thanks.
jmizoguchi
Virtuoso
Jun 20, 2013
Private ip is private ip

192.x - non public routqblw ip
brianberns
Aspirant
Jun 20, 2013
OK, but what device is dishing out these private IPs? And how would that fix the problem I'm having with the access point?
jmizoguchi
Virtuoso
Jun 20, 2013
????!

Your cable modem/gateway !

If does not do DHCP server then will NOT work
You need a router
brianberns
Aspirant
Jun 20, 2013
OK, I will return the access point and buy a wireless router instead. However, I still don't understand why this is necessary. If I connect a PC to the modem/gateway, the upstream DHCP server assigns it an IP address. But if I connect the Netgear access point to the modem/gateway, the DHCP server won't assign it an IP address? Why?
jmizoguchi
Virtuoso
Jun 20, 2013
??

What IP.. I can't tell you ANY unless you show ip address. first three octet
brianberns
Aspirant
Jun 20, 2013
IP address of a PC connected to the cable modem, assigned by DHCP: 173.25.188.xxx
Subnet mask: 255.255.248.0
jmizoguchi
Virtuoso
Jun 20, 2013
Sounds like public ip to me

You need a router
brianberns
Aspirant
Jun 21, 2013
Switching to a router worked. Thanks for your help.

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