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Can't access the Router Login page (again)
Background: I am a Microsoft and Cisco certified network engineer for many years and configured thousands of modems/routers/switches etc etc. Bought a new X6 R8000 router and did a factory reset ...
Ok finally got to the login page by connecting to the 5GHz band. Put in 192.168.1.1 and the router asked login name and password. Used the default login info to log in and immediately flashed DD-WRT and all good now. Still strongly suggest Netgear remove the restrictions for login from Ethernet which is unnecessary.
You have 2 different gateways I think? If you do a IPCONFIG /ALL from both the wireless and wired PC's you'll probably find 2 different GATEWAY IP ADDRESSES, one 192.168.1.1 and the other 192.168.10.0.
You said "I configured the R8000 from PC1 which is a Win10 x64 PC on Ethernet connection to the switch.". So there you could reach the router with that wired PC.
Then you said "I connected the R8000 port LAN1 with a Ethernet cable (tested good) to the switch and typed in Firefox (tried Chrome as well) address bar: http//192.168.1.1 then I got the above message from Netgear.com.". In that case you were on the SWITCH which connected to the router had an IP Address in the range of 192.168.1.xxx and gave you a 192.168.10.xxx IP Address. You were no longer on the 192.168.1.1 LAN, hence the error message. You wireless devices still were on 192.168.1.xxx so they could access the router.
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Nivce explanation.
Like I said, strange topology.