Okay guys here's the deal. I moved into an old house for college and the wireless router had to go on floor 2. I get no signal on floor 1 due to the thick walls. After trying numerous crappy plug in wifi repeaters I decided to try an Ethernet powerline adapter. However here is where I am getting stuck. I was able to get a solid connection via homeplug from upstairs to downstairs and I bought a second router (first router is WD N900, second one is WD N750), to use as an access point. Turns out Western Digital's dashboard provides an option to put it in AP mode. So I try that but I about 3-4 times a day the internet will stop working completely (shows the yellow triangle on windows by the network strength indicator), making me have to reset the routers. So After doing more research I decide to try it out of AP mode. So I factory reset the N750, changed the IP to 192.168.1.2 (the main router is 192.168.1.1), and disabled DHCP. Shouldn't this be all I need to do to have it act as an extender? because I have been working on this for a couple of hours and can't for the life of me figure out why it wont connect. Thanks for any help or advice.
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allennnn
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Set a static ip on the N900 for the second, and did you reboot it? it may have already given that ip out to a computer.
It's possible for the powelines to crash are you sure it was the router that crashed 3 times a day?
It's possible for the powelines to crash are you sure it was the router that crashed 3 times a day?
I'm slightly confused on what you mean by setting up the IP... are you referring to "manually adding" (as western digital calls it anyways) the IP and MAC address of the M750 to the main (N900)? And I suppose it COULD be the powerlines. I suppose the next time it happens I can go look at the unit and see if there is anything flashing or whatnot. Bu yes, I am fairly sure it is some sort of incompatibility with the router... as when they are connected via powerline I can access both of them via web browser.
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