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Aspirant

Jul 20, 2017

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Running Readyshare on two SEPARATE routers

I already have a WNDR3800 N600 router, and I am thinking of acquiring a Netgear WNR3500L N300 router additionally. Both of these routers have USB ports and use Readyshare. My intention is to use the WNDR3800 N600 with WiFi turned on, but with DHCP turned off. It's address on the network would be fixed as something like 192.168.1.101, and the WAN port is not used. I already have it hooked up this way and it works--andI can see a USB drive attached to it via \\Readyshare. It is connected to another router as DHCP via one of its LAN ports.

The WNR3500L also has a USB port. My question is, if I use the WNR3500L as my primary router, with DHCP turned on, and WiFi turned off (WiFi comes only from the 3800), can I use the USB ports on both routers with drives attached to them, via Readyshare. Will I be able to access both drives, and will Readyshare be available and distinct on each drive? How will the drives be labled?

Thanks,

Michael

Hardware

ElaineM
Aug 23, 2017
The way you configured your router in AP mode is the old fashioned way we on how we would do it without the option "Enable AP".

Accessing it outside will not work since you cannot change the FTP port number on either of the two units, plus Port Forwarding is disabled if you set the router in AP mode.

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ElaineM
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 21, 2017
Welcome to the community, Bilateral

This should work as long as they both have the same range of IP address.

The distinction will be through it's IP addresses. You can call the drive using that fixed IP address.
- Bilateral
  Aspirant
  Jul 21, 2017
  Okay, great--thanks, Elaine.
  
  So it I were to have one router as 192.168.1.1 and serving DHCP, and the second router as 192.168.1.101 with DHCP off and connected to the first router through a LAN port, usb drives on each would be findable as independent drives, by using that information--right? For example, I should be able to ftp from a remote computer and find the right drive?
  
  I noticed that the router seems to identify the first drive on it's USB port as U: I haven't tried putting more than one drive on a single router's port, but I presume it would give a second drive on the same port another letter. But with two routers, will the routers know to give these drives different letters for the sake of sanity on the network?
  
  Thanks,
  Michael
  - ElaineM
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jul 25, 2017
    How's the connection?
    
    For FTP, it would only be one access. I do not think you will be able to change the port of the other one from the other router since it's configured in AP mode.
    
    Locally, calling it by IP address shouldn't be a problem.