wired router & wifi router

Robert Atkins · 11-06-2005, 07:27

I have two Netgear routers an RP614 and a wireless WGU624. I found that the WGU624 was unstable as a router (It slowed down many times, needing rebooting), So

*I set up the rp614 as a router (dhcp server)
*I disabled the dhcp server on the wgu624
*I connected the two

Both Wifi and wired ethernet is working fine, all 18 devices (printers, PCs, laptops etc) function properly. The question is how do I access the wgu624?

In the current sep up the wgu624 acts as a switch and it has no ip address (as far I can see)

I need to access the wgu624 to change the wifi settings (activate-dectivate g-network, a-network etc)

Any ideas?

Paul K · 11-06-2005, 07:34

Wireless router should still have an IP address I think, have you checked your RP614 router to see if will tell you what devices are attached to it?

Robert Atkins · 11-06-2005, 08:05

all 18 devices are there but not the wgu624. I tried all 255 ip addresses 192.168.0.* and it was not one of them...

Paul K · 11-06-2005, 08:12

What is connected via the wireless and what info do they give when you go to a CMD box and type ipconfig /all ?
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How is the wireless router connected to the network at the moment? Is it connected to the router?

11-06-2005, 08:20

Have you tried 192.168.1.1? (That's in a different sub-net though, so you may need to change the subnet mask issued by your DHCP server to 255.255.254.0)

OldGeezer · 11-06-2005, 08:29

Did you configure the wireless router to have a different IP address to your wired router (as well as disabling DHCP)? They probably have the same address by default.
Remove your wireless router from the network and connect a PC to it via wire.
You will then be able to connect to it to configure the IP address (plus anything else you want).
You should then be able to see it after it's put back into the network.

HTH

Robert Atkins · 11-06-2005, 10:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by OldGeezer

Did you configure the wireless router to have a different IP address to your wired router (as well as disabling DHCP)? They probably have the same address by default.
Remove your wireless router from the network and connect a PC to it via wire.
You will then be able to connect to it to configure the IP address (plus anything else you want).
You should then be able to see it after it's put back into the network.

HTH

Many thanks, the above advise worked. I restricted the IP range of the wired router (RP614) to 192.169.0.1-200 and I manually gave a new IP address 192.168.0.254 to the wifi router (wGU264) which is *outside* the range of the other router but on the same subnet. Now the two routers co-exist happily and I can access both via 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.254.

Many thanks to all for your advice.