Can't access the Router Login page

When initially installed it was configured as a router with DHCP capability disabled and a fixed IP address.  It was connected to the network via Cat5 cable to the WAN (yellow) port on the rear of the device. 

In the same network is a Netgear WNR2000v2 Router used as a connection device to the Internet.  That device has wireless capability disabled. 

Access to the (new) R6220 device was supposedly via  www.routerlogin.net URL in a browser. 

What we found with experimentation was:

• User needed to be connected via the wireless network to the R6220 signal to do configuration
• After the R6220 router was configured and an IP address assigned a reboot occurs
• The initial authentication login challenge came from the (old) Netgear WNR2000v2 not the newer device.
• Configured as a router it would not respond to the assigned IP address.

The effect was that after configuration we were locked out of making more changes to the configuration since it was not accessible. 

By some experimentation we determined that if the Cat5 connection was to our LAN backbone switch and not the actual (old) Netgear WNR2000v2 then the www.routerlogin.net URL would respond with the newer R6220 device. 

By all standards this is a bug/flaw in the system design of Netgear router devices.  Two devices that want to respond to the same www.routerlogin.net URL and inability to select the desired device coupled with the inability of the R6220 to respond to the hard IP address is definitely an issue.

The solution was to …

• Login to the desired device – wireless and making sure that the Cat5 cable was not connected directly to the old router itself but to a backbone switch.
• Once logged in

Advanced tab on login page

            Expand Advanced Setup on left panel

                                                Wireless Access Point >> Configure as desired.

Once configured as an Access Point the device will respond to the internal static IP address