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Aspirant

Dec 29, 2020

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WN3000RP V1 H2

We have an outhouse some distance from our house and I want to site a wifi access point in the outhouse which has mains powerline from the house. I have been able to get the house router signal to t...

antinode
Dec 30, 2020
> [...] I thought it was worth asking the question [...]

   But it wasn't worth looking in the User Manual?

   Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for
"Connect a PC to the Extender with an Ethernet Cable".

      /!\ CAUTION:
          Do not use Ethernet cable to connect the Extender to a router.
          If you do so, the Extender does not work because it is
          designed to use only a wireless connection to the router.

charliedawg

Aspirant

Dec 30, 2020

The problem that I had was to extend home wifi to an outhouse some 50 yards from our house - the outhouse had mains power linked to our home. I had thought that two spare BT mini connectors linked to the mains would allow the home router signal to be fed to the outhouse. Then my idea was to use an old Netgear WN3000RP to provide the wifi at that site. As pointed out by Guru, the Netgear kit was not suitable for this purpose but I have been able to reconfigure a spare BT Smart hub 6 to link via Ethernet cable to the BT Mini connector located in the outhouse and thus to provide wifi there.

There are several Youtube videos and internet articles detailing how to reconfigure the remote router if anyone has a similar project in mind.

antinode

Guru

Dec 30, 2020

> There are several Youtube videos and internet articles detailing how
> to reconfigure the remote router if anyone has a similar project in
> mind.

Thanks for the helpful links.

Practically any wireless router can be configured as a wireless
access point. Some routers have a convenient WAP-mode option. For
models which don't, it's more complicated, but still usually possible.
See, for example:

https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1463500

That's written for a Netgear C6300-as-WAP, but the steps are about the
same for any other router (any make/model) which lacks a one-step WAP
option. If the router which you're reconfiguring has a WAN/Internet
Ethernet port, then leave it unconnected. (Not a possibility for a
Netgear Cxxxx, which has no such port.)