R7000 router as an access point

Antinode, I appreciate your attempts to help. I wound up taking the router down stairs with a laptop and connecting it directly to the gateway. Then I reset it and ran the netgear genie. I'm sorry I couldnt give you a verbatim walkthrough of the minutiae. Long story short I took it and directly connected it to the gateway and ran the genie which let me choose to set it up as an access point (through the genie program) and once it was configured I used the supplied cable (with the router) to connect the gateway to the ethernet port I created and then connected the access point (router) upstairs with a different cable and it maintained configuration (from the basement set up). I'm sorry we couldnt get on the same page in terms of communication about my actions. Thanks for your attempt at being helpful, it is much appreciated.