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Re: How to access R7000 when set as an access point?
> The issue I am having is I have no way of connecting to the R7000 to > administer it
Sure you do; you just don't know what it is.
From a device which is connected directly to the R7000-as-WAP, so that the R7000-as-WAP can intercept its DNS requests, the "routerlogin" names are supposed to work.
More reliably, and from anyplace on your LAN, you should be able to specify the (LAN) IP address of the R7000-as-WAP. You should be able to find that address from an Attached Devices report on your main router.
For convenience, you can reserve some memorable address for the R7000-as-WAP on the main router (Address Reservation), so you wouldn't need to search for it every time something restarts.
> and I have no way of seeing what is connected to it.
I know nothing, but I wouldn't bet that its Attached Devices report would show only devices which are connected directly to it. I'd expect the Attached Devices report on the main router to show all the devices on the LAN, with the devices wjich are connected directly to the R7000-as-WAP being classified as "wired", because that's how the main router sees them.
So, what you _actually_ did is a mystery. That includes what you connected to what, and how you configured anything. (Hint: If a device has different types of ports, then "connected to device" is not enough detail.)
It might be educational to compare the IP addresses of devices which are connected to your R7000 with those of devices which are connected to your R8000. Those would all be on the same subnet if the R7000 were actually configured as a WAP.
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for "Set Up the Router as a WiFi Access Point".
> I think I have come up with a "Work Around"
If you actually had done what you said you had done, then there'd be nothing to work around. If all you did was to cascade two NAT routers, then there might be more to work around than you've yet discovered.
I connected to the R7000 directly... (aka take a laptop. connect a Cat5 cable between the laptop and the R7000)
That is a direct connection. It is an excellent way to get into the controls of the R7000 in AP mode.
It is not "remote administration", a term that Netgear does not use.
Remote Management, Netgear's description, which was mentioned in an earlier message, is designed to let you use the Internet to access your devices from somewhere out in the world. As the manual puts it:
"The remote management feature lets you access your router over the Internet to view or change its settings."
They have moved access to that feature in some devices. It is now in Web Services Management.
This is the feature that at least two of us, along with Netgear's documentation, think that Remote Management does not work with a router in AP mode. (It certainly doesn't here.)
Plugging a cable into the R7000 does not count as connecting over the Internet.
I mention this only to warn anyone who sees the "Solved" flag on this conversation and tries to go down the same road. They might get lost.
Re: How to access R7000 when set as an access point?
> I am responsible for what I say, not what you understand.
I'm not responsible for what you misunderstand. "[wireless] access point" is a technical term with a specific meaning.
> I set the R7000 so that remote administration was enabled.
Then you didn't configure "the R7000" as a WAP.
> If you need a more detailed explaination please ask your nearest 12 > year Old
I would not be amazed if any random twelve-year-old understood this material better than you, but a non-psychic twelve-year-old would not likely be able to answer any of the pending questions about what you did or what you observed.
If you're happy, then I'm happy, but if you think that you know what you're doing, then you might be mistaken about that, too.
