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WNDR4500V2 no access
Hi, Bought this second hand router. Purpose was to strengthen my signal in my attic. I have a Ziggo connection (i'm Dutch) to my modem (Technicolor) downstairs. 1 LAN cable connected (amongst o...
Disconnect the netgear from your pimrary router.
Factory reset it by pushing and holding reset for 7-15 seconds while powered on.
Then (while still disconnected from the router) go through its setup process and set your wireless info.
then (while still disconnected) put the WNDR4500 in access point mode.
At that point, its not handling dhcp/nat and it relies on your primary router for that.
Connect the netgear to your primary router. Connect from a lan port on the primary router to the WAN port on the netgear.
The primary router should assign it an ip address. You'll be able to use that to access it/manage it.
Thanks for replying!
Nope..
I must have factory reset it at least 10 times by now. (just to be sure, did it again after your message)
Connected, unconnected, WiFi only, LAN to laptop. All did not work: No access to router settings.
what are all the leds on the router doing? (color/blinking/etc)
Nothing blinking...
Power: green
Internet: Yellow (or off when not connected)
2.4 ghz: Green
5 ghz: Blue
lan 1: Green
so after a full reset, with a laptop connect but not the primary router, you still don't get a default gateway when you run a command prompt ipconfig?