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WN604 cannot connect to router
I have purchased a WN604 access point to provide wireless networking in my home. I have a cable modem (Cisco DPC3825) from my ISP (Mediacom) that works fine as a router/gateware for wired connections.
My plan is to connect the WN604 to my cable modem as a wireless access point (not as a router) so I can use my laptop wirelessly from another room. The problem is that I have configured my WN604 as a DHCP client, but it is not connecting successfully to the network.
What can I do to connect the WN604 to my network so I can use it as a wireless access point?
My plan is to connect the WN604 to my cable modem as a wireless access point (not as a router) so I can use my laptop wirelessly from another room. The problem is that I have configured my WN604 as a DHCP client, but it is not connecting successfully to the network.
What can I do to connect the WN604 to my network so I can use it as a wireless access point?
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- Are you getting link lights?
- I have a WLAN (blue) light that indicates wireless activity, but no LAN (green/amber) light indicating a connection to the router.
- You either have a problem with the cable, the ports or speed/duplex negotiation - try a known good cable, try a different port on the router, one that you can test as working with another device, if those don't work try connecting the access point to a switch or PC to verify if the port on the access point itself is functional - this last might require a cross over cable.
Remember - what we're looking for is link lights - without a link there can be no communication. - It turns out that the LAN link light is actually on. I was reading the lights incorrectly at first. Sorry about that.
However, the access point still isn't connecting to the network, so it seems like this more likely a configuration problem than a hardware problem, yes? Any suggestions? - http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WN604/WN604_UM_14Oct11.pdf
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Launch a web browser and enter http://192.168.0.230 in the address field. You are prompted to log in:
reset the unit and connect pc directly to the unit.
setup static IP on pc and try access it - I already did this. Configured the device as a DHCP client. But it doesn't seem to join the network when connected to the router.
- Try static ip instead
- I can't. It's a cable modem, so I'm on the same subnet as all my neighbors and cannot assign IP addresses. Everything is DHCP.
- ?????
I thought your cable modem has router function?
If not you cannot use dhcp client nor static ip - My mistake. The cable modem is not actually a router - it's just a "residential gateway". However, I'm not sure why this would make any difference to the wireless access point. There's still a router serving as a DHCP server, it's just further upstream and not under my control.
