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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...
>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.
> 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.)Alright, what the manual said to do was enable AP mode on the second router, so that's what I did. After that, I couldn't get internet access through that router whether I plugged my laptop directly in or connected by WiFi. I couldn't configure it through routerlogin.net, either, even with a direct ethernet connection. After that, I factory reset the router, enabled AP mode, and it still acted the same way. The manual wasn't any too specific on what else to change, so that's all I did.
My method:
Set the first router's LAN IP Address to 192.168.1.1 (if it isn't already for some reason)
Make sure DHCP is enabled on the first router.
Set it to assign addresses between 192.168.1.50 and 192.168.1.254
Set the channel for the 2.4 GHz connection to channel 1.
Set the channel for the 5 GHz connection to channel 149.
Turn off DCHP on the second router.
Set the second router's LAN IP Address to 192.168.1.2
Set the channel for the 2.4GHz connection to channel 11.
Set the channel for the 5GHz connection to channel 161.
Do you see anything wrong with that? It's the same setup I've been using since December of 2017. The reason I'm using two routers in the first place is because I need two separate WiFi connections for two separate buildings. I know that feeding a router off of another router isn't the same as having two separate networks, but it works fine for my application.