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Setting up old Netgear router (N150 - WNR1000v3) as wireless access point?
I've recently moved my broadband to Virgin and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction with regards to setting up my old Netgear router as a wireless access point. As expected, Virgin'...
I would recommend changing your superhub DHCP range to 192.168.0.2 – 192.168.0.199. It’s most unlikely that you will ever have nearly 200 DHCP clients on your LAN, so that range should be more than enough, but leaving the last 50 or so addresses available for use by statically set devices might be more useful, and the ‘1000 can then have a more memorable IP address e.g. 192.168.0.200 or 192.168.0.222
When logged into the ‘1000 Admin pages, make all the wireless changes first, in the Wireless Settings page, SSID / encryption etc.
Then go to the LAN Setup page, set the desired IP address e.g. 192.168.0.200, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, ignore RIP settings, untick ‘Use Router as DHCP Server’, then press the Apply button.
When you press ‘Apply’ above the computer will lose communication with the router (due to the IP change), especially if the ‘1000 is not currently connected to the Superhub.
Power off the ‘1000 and remove any Ethernet cable from the WAN (Internet) port. The ‘1000 must now be connected to the Superhub using an Ethernet cable from a ‘1000 LAN port to a Superhub LAN port. Other remaining ‘1000 LAN ports are still available.
Power on the ‘1000, computers should now be able to connect to it wirelessly and wired, and will pick up IP data from the Superhub.
The ‘1000 Admin pages will now be at the chosen IP address e.g. http://192.168.0.200
Those fields you describe seem to be WAN (Internet) settings, which are now irrelevant.
I would recommend changing your superhub DHCP range to 192.168.0.2 – 192.168.0.199. It’s most unlikely that you will ever have nearly 200 DHCP clients on your LAN, so that range should be more than enough, but leaving the last 50 or so addresses available for use by statically set devices might be more useful, and the ‘1000 can then have a more memorable IP address e.g. 192.168.0.200 or 192.168.0.222
When logged into the ‘1000 Admin pages, make all the wireless changes first, in the Wireless Settings page, SSID / encryption etc.
Then go to the LAN Setup page, set the desired IP address e.g. 192.168.0.200, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, ignore RIP settings, untick ‘Use Router as DHCP Server’, then press the Apply button.
When you press ‘Apply’ above the computer will lose communication with the router (due to the IP change), especially if the ‘1000 is not currently connected to the Superhub.
Power off the ‘1000 and remove any Ethernet cable from the WAN (Internet) port. The ‘1000 must now be connected to the Superhub using an Ethernet cable from a ‘1000 LAN port to a Superhub LAN port. Other remaining ‘1000 LAN ports are still available.
Power on the ‘1000, computers should now be able to connect to it wirelessly and wired, and will pick up IP data from the Superhub.
The ‘1000 Admin pages will now be at the chosen IP address e.g. http://192.168.0.200
Those fields you describe seem to be WAN (Internet) settings, which are now irrelevant.
Thanks for your response - all setup and working ok (I think).
I am getting very different speeds when my laptop is next to my main (Virgin Superhub) router (42mb) compared to when I've next to my Netgear router/access point (7mb). Does this sound right, presumably there will be some degredation of signal even using homeplug adaptors?
Regards Pete
The WNR1000 is a relatively low-end model with 100Mbps ports and quite a low wireless throughput compared to higher end models. I would say that 7Mbps wireless to Internet throughput is not astonishingly low, but could perhaps be better. I would expect a wired connection to the ‘1000 to give you your full ISP rate since in that arrangement you are only really using the router’s 4-port switch as a switch, there’s no routing taking place.
If the router wireless settings have a WMM feature you could try with and without this enabled to see if that helps.