I had my N750/WNDR4300 router connected in AP mode to my TP Link AX20 last year. AX20 failed and was replaced. I’ve reset the WNRD4300 and am trying to log in to set AP mode again.
I can connect to Wi-Fi “netgear06” but all of these time out:
I had my N750/WNDR4300 router connected in AP mode to my TP Link AX20 last year. AX20 failed and was replaced. I’ve reset the WNRD4300 and am trying to log in to set AP mode again.
Replaced with what?
If it was another router, then your best bet is to disconnect the WNRD4300 from anything, set that to AP mode and then put it back into the network.
Thank you for responding! Yes, replaced the AX20 with another AX20.
When you say "disconnect the WNDR4300 from anything", I'm not sure what you mean. The WNDR4300 is connected via ethernet cable to the AX20. If I disconnect that, I won't be able to see the WNDR4300 at all.
Are you saying I should cut the AX20 out of the chain and connect the cable modem to the WNDR4300 directly?
Are you saying I should cut the AX20 out of the chain and connect the cable modem to the WNDR4300 directly?
Yes. Temporarily plug the WNDR4300 into a PC. Set it up in AP mode. Then reconnect the AX20.
Can you see the WNDR4300 as a connected device in the AX20? (You'll have to look in the manual for the AX20 to see how to do that.) If so, look for its IP address and put that into a browser. Then put it into AP mode.
Ok. I still can't login to get to change it to AP mode.
I directly wired the WNDR4300 to my iMac (the only machine in the house with an Ethernet port). I then connected to the NetGear06 wifi on the iMac. I cleared browser history on Safari and tried routerlogin.net, routerlogin.com, 192.168.1.1, and 192.168.1.2 and they all failed to load.
When the WNDR4300 was connected to the AX20, I was able to see the device was assigned 192.168.0.213. That also doesn't work.
I shut the wifi off on the iMac to be sure it's only looking at the hard-wired router, and looked up the comparable ipconfig command ifconfig, and found IPv4 address 169.254.139.247 and that didn't work either!
When the WNDR4300 was connected to the AX20, I was able to see the device was assigned 192.168.0.213. That also doesn't work.
I shut the wifi off on the iMac to be sure it's only looking at the hard-wired router, and looked up the comparable ipconfig command ifconfig, and found IPv4 address 169.254.139.247 and that didn't work either!
You can't mess around with IP addresses willy nilly. You have listed set of addresses that can't talk to each other.
By default, Netgear routers set themselves to 192.168.1.1. Everything else on the network uses 192.168.1.###.
Your WNDR4300 router will opt for this one by default.
Modem routers go for 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.###.
These can't talk to each other.
I have no idea where 169.254.139.247 comes from.
Another problem is that you can't just plug things in an out. You have to restart devices in the correct order so that the later arrivals can see what is upstream and adapt themselves accordingly.
I then connected to the NetGear06 wifi on the iMac.
NetGear06 is usually the default SSID of a router. If you can connect to it, then whatever does the connecting may also be able to tell you the IP address of the connection.
The 192.168.0.213 is the one that the AX20 allocated to the WNDR4300. If the two aren't connected, then the WNDR4300 won't get that address.
That address suggests that the AX20 is working through 192.168.0.1. Is this a modem/router or gateway? Maybe that's what TP-Link uses for routers.
I directly wired the WNDR4300 to my iMac (the only machine in the house with an Ethernet port). I then connected to the NetGear06 wifi on the iMac. I cleared browser history on Safari and tried routerlogin.net, routerlogin.com, 192.168.1.1, and 192.168.1.2 and they all failed to load.
Did you reset the WNDR4300 before you tried connecting to it?
Then connect it to the Mac. Keep wifi out of it. Turn it off. That just confuses things as it tries to get an IP address from the .TP-Link.
