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No Internet on Second Router
I'm using an XR300 as my primary router and an R7000 as my secondary router. They're bridged together with a long ethernet cable so that I can extend my internet connection to a nearby building. I've been using that setup for 3 years with little or no issues. A month or two ago, my secondary router stopped providing an internet connection. The internet indicator light on that router didn't light up. I tried some troubleshooting, but after a couple hours with no progress, I swapped that router out for my old primary router, which is also an R7000. That worked fine up until about a week ago, when it started doing the same thing as the previous router. It did work again a few days later, but now it stopped again. These are the settings I changed to set up the routers:
Primary Router (XR300):
- IP Address set to 192.168.1.1
- DHCP On, assigning IP addresses between 192.168.1.34 and 192.168.1.254
Secondary Router (R7000):
- IP Address set to 192.168.1.2
- DHCP Off
They're connected with a CAT 5 cable from a LAN port on the primary router to a LAN port on the secondary router. I brought the secondary router close to the primary router so that I could run a short cable between them to test, but that didn't help.
Any ideas on what might be wrong and how I can fix it?
Thanks
>Which IP Address?
The LAN IP Address. I didn't think you could change the other one anyway.
>RTFM Failure?
I tried the method in the manual, but that's quite a bit different. It didn't end up working for me. I ended up just factory resetting both routers and then changing the settings to what I had them as before, and that worked for whatever reason.
Anyway, thanks for the insight and I think I'm all set at least for now.
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> Secondary Router (R7000):
> - IP Address set to 192.168.1.2
_Which_ IP address? A router like this normally has two IP
addreses: one for its WAN/Internet interface, and one for its LAN
interface.> Any ideas on what might be wrong [...]
RTFM failure?
> [...] and how I can fix it?
RTFM?
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number (R7000),
and look for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read.
Look for "Set Up the Router as a WiFi Access Point".
Because you've been fiddling with it, it might be a good idea to do a
settings reset on the R7000 before configuring it as a WAP. After that,
you might need to lie to it a little to get it past its set-up wizard,
so that it'll let you do what you want with it.>Which IP Address?
The LAN IP Address. I didn't think you could change the other one anyway.
>RTFM Failure?
I tried the method in the manual, but that's quite a bit different. It didn't end up working for me. I ended up just factory resetting both routers and then changing the settings to what I had them as before, and that worked for whatever reason.
Anyway, thanks for the insight and I think I'm all set at least for now.
> I tried the method in the manual, but that's quite a bit different.
> [...]The right way and some other way are often different.
> [...] It didn't end up working for me. [...]
With that detailed description of what you did, and what happened
when you did it, there's not much that I could add.> [...] I think I'm all set at least for now.
Time will tell. (Especially if you try to do something like "Set Up
a WiFi Schedule" on your ad-hoc WAP, and that device can't find a time
server from which to set its clock.)