I have two netgear routers:
- Netgear fvs336gv2 (professional router)(192.168.1.1)
- Netgear wndr4500v2 (consumer router)(192.168.1.103)
The pro router is the main router fvs336gv2 (192.168.1.1) and I have plugged an ethernet cable from a port of the pro router into the internet port of the consumer router (192.168.1.103) When I have wifi connection to the consumer router (access point mode) I have a perfect internet connection the only downside is that I cannot get into the web interface of the consumer router (access point)
When I go to http://routerlogin.net it gives me a default website of one of our running internal webservers (I forwarded port 80 in the main router) When I go to http://192.168.1.103 i get the same thing.
In the pro routers webinterface (192.168.1.1) I can see by the mac address that the ip ending with 103 is of the access point. When I plug an ethernet cable in the accesspoint 'lan' ports I also cannot enter the webinterface.
It seems (to me) that when you set a Netgear router to AP-mode, it becomes unmanageable. I have no idea how to fix this. The option to restore access to the webinterface is reset the accesspoint, but then it will be a router again with dhcp etc. and I want it to function as accesspoint (because the new pro-router has no wifi and my co-wokers macbook air has no ethernet port)
edit I identified the router which was set to accesspoint by looking in the connected lan clients of the pro/main router and searching for it's mac address
edit 2 the steps I took to get it to ap-mode are similar to http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23814
Best Answer
Found it, webinterface was unavailable (somehow) but you can access it by installing Genie http://www.netgear.com/home/discover/apps/genie.aspx and add the ip of the access point manually