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Router won't accept passwords
I bought two new Netgear WAC104 routers today. I am having the same problem with both. When I can get in on 192.168.0.100 I can make configuration changes. Mostly it DHCPs the server to 192.168.4.1 and I can get in at all. I have 3 hours in to configuring two routers that should take 15 minutes. I have reset them many times. I can't reliably make them exist at 192.168.0.100. How do I change a router once configured? I have been using ipconfig /all to find the router and it asks for a password but it even thins the default password after a reset is wrong.
Here is the link for the access points http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WAC104/WAC104_UM_EN.pdf
You will need to start on page 12 and follow the instructions with a hardwired lan based computer one at a time.
Remember that you need to assigned a different ip address to each access point to so you login which one you want at the time.
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Here is the link for the access points http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WAC104/WAC104_UM_EN.pdf
You will need to start on page 12 and follow the instructions with a hardwired lan based computer one at a time.
Remember that you need to assigned a different ip address to each access point to so you login which one you want at the time.
- Thank you. That is what I ended up doing. However, once in the network the routers ended up on the wrong subnet for me to reconfigure them. I finally realized the login that I could authenticate was a fiberoptics router that was ahead of the access points. Once I realized that I had to do all configuring from a new network just for configuring. In the end I was able to keep one but the other really needed port forwarding. I didn't know there were routers without port forwarding.