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qtopplings
Mar 20, 2015Novice
Can't get to router admin page after reset
Apologies if this question has been answered. I couldn't find a similar issue in a search. I had my R7000 set up previously with wifi, and when I moved, I got a cable modem from ATT (NVG589). The...
- Mar 22, 2015What searay is suggesting is a factory reset of the R7000, which will allow access to the R7000 admin pages, but will then also require you to set up the router again. If the R7000 is currently set up as an AP and is obtaining its IP address from the modem then it’s quite understandable that the R7000 is repeatedly allocated the same IP address, but the fact that it’s the same is not the issue. You should, even by just power cycling the R7000, be able to access the admin pages at its base IP address i.e. http://192.169.1.76 If however the R7000 is not currently configured as an AP then you may well be running with two routers in series, segmenting your network with some devices unable to see others, and the IP address you see allocated to the R7000 is being treated as a WAN IP address and maybe even causing the router to change its LAN subnet to 10.0.0.x. In that case the advice given by searay is perfectly correct, disconnect the R7000 from your network, factory reset it back to defaults, connect to it from a computer using Ethernet cable, and reconfigure it as required including the AP option.
qtopplings
Mar 22, 2015Novice
searay wrote: You missed a step, I said to connect cable to LAN port and to PC. The PC should now get IP of 192.168.1.2 open IE type 192.168.1.1
User admin
PW is password
Select from advanced menu, Wireless AP
I just want to make sure I understand this. The R7000 is connected to the ethernet in my office, which is connected to the cable modem via a switch in the media panel in my coat closet. My iMac is plugged into the R7000.
So you want me to connect my Mac directly to LAN port and bypass the router? And how would the router be connected to the internet?
Isn't the issue that the router is no longer 192.168.1.1 but is now assigned 192.168.1.76 and DNS will not find routerlogin.net?