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IP changed when I moved the cable, how do I get back to original IP?
I have been using this WNDR4000 Wi-Fi router for several years now with no problems whatsoever, until yesterday. Here's what I did. I wanted to move this router to a different location in the house....
antinode wrote:> >> You say this is important but the problem is [...]
I understand that you want the G-1100 separated from the WNDR4000,
and that's fine with me, but if you want both those devices to provide
wireless access, then configuring the G-1100 in bridge mode (modem-only)
would be a bad idea, because that would disable its wireless access
capability. Hence my primary suggestion was to configure the WNDR4000
as a WAP (which would leave both wireless access points active).> [...] do not want to have to spend the coin if we don't have to.
Understood, but as that step-by-step procedure to configure any
router as a WAP should make clear, configuring a WNDR4000 as a WAP is
not especially simple.>> It was not hard to do. Basically I just gave the WNDR4000 a different name
for the SSID and turned both radio frequencies on. The FIOS G-1100 uses it's DHCP
to assign any wireless connections through the WNDR4000/N750.
The WNDR4000 shows no internect connection which used to confuse me until
I understood that the FIOS G-1100 was not configured in bridge mode and I had
only extended the network from the LAN port of the FIOS G-1100 to one of the
WNDR4000's LAN ports.
I think it's really a great piece of engineering that one router can serve IP addressing
through to another router in this fashion.
> >> You say this is important but the problem is [...]
I understand that you want the G-1100 separated from the WNDR4000,
and that's fine with me, but if you want both those devices to provide
wireless access, then configuring the G-1100 in bridge mode (modem-only)
would be a bad idea, because that would disable its wireless access
capability. Hence my primary suggestion was to configure the WNDR4000
as a WAP (which would leave both wireless access points active).
> [...] do not want to have to spend the coin if we don't have to.
Understood, but as that step-by-step procedure to configure any
router as a WAP should make clear, configuring a WNDR4000 as a WAP is
not especially simple.
antinode wrote:> >> You say this is important but the problem is [...]
I understand that you want the G-1100 separated from the WNDR4000,
and that's fine with me, but if you want both those devices to provide
wireless access, then configuring the G-1100 in bridge mode (modem-only)
would be a bad idea, because that would disable its wireless access
capability. Hence my primary suggestion was to configure the WNDR4000
as a WAP (which would leave both wireless access points active).
> [...] do not want to have to spend the coin if we don't have to.
Understood, but as that step-by-step procedure to configure any
router as a WAP should make clear, configuring a WNDR4000 as a WAP is
not especially simple.
>> It was not hard to do. Basically I just gave the WNDR4000 a different name
for the SSID and turned both radio frequencies on. The FIOS G-1100 uses it's DHCP
to assign any wireless connections through the WNDR4000/N750.
The WNDR4000 shows no internect connection which used to confuse me until
I understood that the FIOS G-1100 was not configured in bridge mode and I had
only extended the network from the LAN port of the FIOS G-1100 to one of the
WNDR4000's LAN ports.
I think it's really a great piece of engineering that one router can serve IP addressing
through to another router in this fashion.