- Sep 3, 2013
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Hi Tom's People,
I have a Frontier FIOS connection going into the walls with Cat6, and there's wall plugs for the CAT6. I'm using one of the wall plugs to go to my old Netgear WNDR4000. It's set to Access Point ("AP") mode.
That makes the wireless work perfectly, but setting it to AP mode made me lose access to the LAN ports in the back. I need those because I have a switch with devices hooked into it, and the room's layout requires that.
I tried setting it to normal mode (not AP), which works except it creates a subnet mask that prevents any device connected to the other router from communicating with those connected to the WNDR4000. That's not okay because it prevents printing and networking communication with the server in this room. I also can't access the router's settings now that it's set to AP mode. How do you do that?
Is there a way to have the WNDR4000 set to AP mode and also keep the ports in the back on? If not, I can always get a small Gigabit switch, but I'd rather not. Please help.
Thanks
-Eggz
I have a Frontier FIOS connection going into the walls with Cat6, and there's wall plugs for the CAT6. I'm using one of the wall plugs to go to my old Netgear WNDR4000. It's set to Access Point ("AP") mode.
That makes the wireless work perfectly, but setting it to AP mode made me lose access to the LAN ports in the back. I need those because I have a switch with devices hooked into it, and the room's layout requires that.
I tried setting it to normal mode (not AP), which works except it creates a subnet mask that prevents any device connected to the other router from communicating with those connected to the WNDR4000. That's not okay because it prevents printing and networking communication with the server in this room. I also can't access the router's settings now that it's set to AP mode. How do you do that?
Is there a way to have the WNDR4000 set to AP mode and also keep the ports in the back on? If not, I can always get a small Gigabit switch, but I'd rather not. Please help.
Thanks
-Eggz
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