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For several years I've used my Netgear router as Access Point. This worked great. A few days ago I moved the Netgear to another room, and since then it does not work anymore.
The Power LED remains solid amber. When connecting the Netgear to my ISP's router, the Internet LED is also solid amber.
but this does not work. I executed the steps until step 8. Indeed, in step 9 the Power LED starts orange, but it stays solid orange forever.
8. Power ON the router while holding down the reset button. 9. Watch the Power LED. It starts with orange color, and then will start flashing orange. 10. Power LED will then turn to flashing green. Count at least 10 flashing green LED and release the reset button.
By the way, I selected "Use the following IP address and set the IP address like below picture." but Default Gateway => 192.168.1.1 seems not to work, since pinging 192.168.1.1 yields "Destination host unreachable".
> [...] I selected "Use the following IP address and set the IP address > like below picture." but Default Gateway => 192.168.1.1 seems not to > work, since pinging 192.168.1.1 yields "Destination host unreachable".
The problem is not your computer's "Default gateway" address. If you set your computer's IP address to "192.168.1.X" (X > 1), then it doesn't need a gateway to talk to a router at "192.168.1.1" (or to anything else at a "192.168.1.Y" address).
If the LED indicators are not responding as they should, and you can't communicate with the router, then I'd worry about the hardware (AC adapter, router itself).
your router is a R4500 correct? If it is that model it is known that power surges and power outages seem to affect those router's firmware. You can fix that by uploading back the firmware using the tftp method.
I tried to upgrade the firmware with tftp2, but using 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 does not work. The power LED stays solid amber, and in the tftp2 the progress bar does not fill. I'm afraid I've to buy a new router. Thanks for your advise!
> I tried to upgrade the firmware with tftp2, but using 192.168.1.1 or > 192.168.0.1 does not work.
"tried to upgrade the firmware with tftp2" omits many details of a multi-step procedure. Unless you're changing your computer's IP address between "using 192.168.1.1" and "or 192.168.0.1", then you can expect some failures. According to the R4500 User Manual, "192.168.1.1" is its default address. See also:
One advantage of the command-line TFTP programs is that you're more likely to get a useful error message from them. But, again, if the router does not respond to "ping", then there's little hope for TFTP.
