Extending Wireless Network (Netgear)
 

I had an old Netgear DG834G v1 which broke and was replaced by a DG834PN (Netgear Rangemax).

Surprisingly, although being in the same place, I don't get as good as signal from the Rangemax as I did with the old router/modem.

So, my options to extend the range is to use the wireless plug extenders as mentioned in another thread, or to use an access point. The question is that as the wireless part on my old DG834G works fine, can I use that as an access point ?

If so, does it need a cross over cable, or normal ethernet to connect to the main Rangemax modem/router ?

Re: Extending Wireless Network (Netgear)
 

Ethernet straight cable. There is normally a setting in the config page to make the router behave as just an access point. hth.

Re: Extending Wireless Network (Netgear)
 

So I can configure the new one from the PC - do you know how I do it from there ?

Re: Extending Wireless Network (Netgear)
 

Open a browser, enter address as
http://192.168.0.1

if the router is still as factory settings
username: admin
password: password

from there you can explore the settings.