D6400 use WAN as 5th LAN

[confused23]

Hi,

Is there a way how to use the WAN port (red one marked as Internet) on the D6400 as a 5th LAN port. I would like to connect my Nvidia Shield to it as it is the only free port left on my router and in specs it says that D6400 has 5 ethernet ports. But when I connect my laptop to it to test it I cannot establish internet connection.

Thanks a lot for your help.

[antinode]

> Is there a way how to use the WAN port (red one marked as Internet) on
> the D6400 as a 5th LAN port.

   If there were, then I'd expect that port to be labeled something
other than "Internet" (only).

   Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation.  Get the User Manual (at least).  Read.  Did you see
anything in any of the R6400 documentation which suggests that
possibility?

> [...] in specs it says that D6400 has 5 ethernet ports. [...]

   And it has.  One for an Internet connection, and four for LAN
connections.

> [...] it is the only free port left on my router [...]

   Invest the $15 in a network switch?

[confused23]

Just out of interest couldd the switch be connected to the WAN port and function as expected?

Thanks a lot.

[antinode]

> [...] couldd the switch be connected to the WAN port and function as
> expected?

   Depends on what you "expect".  _I_'d expect it to work there just as
well as any other device. Which is to say, not at all.

   The "Internet" port on that router is an "Internet" port, not a LAN
port or a LAN/Internet port.  Knowing nothing about the implementation
details, I wouldn't rule it out with different firmware, but I don't see
it as a feature of the Netgear firmware.

   There are some models which have a dual-purpose port, like, say, the
D7000v2 (where the _fourth_ port is the odd-ball).  And I think that I
recently saw some other model which had one, but I don't recall what it
was.  But it wasn't a D6400.

[michaelkenward]

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@confused23 wrote:

Is there a way how to use the WAN port (red one marked as Internet) on the D6400 as a 5th LAN port.

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No.

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@confused23 wrote:

I would like to connect my Nvidia Shield to it ...

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Buy a cheap dumb switch.

Something like this costs < £$€20, less if you go for some no name device.

Gigabit Unmanaged Switch Series - GS105 | NETGEAR