WGR614v5 Configuration as access point.

[yugpatel]

Is it possible to configure WGR614v5 as an access point?
I have old router that I would like to give to my son who is going to collage. He has Ethernet connection available in his room and he wants to use iPod touch with wireless connection.
Can I hook up WGR614v5 to the wall outlet and configure it as an access point? If so how?

 

[boochi]

Just use it as a router treating the wall outlet the same way you would use a cable/dsl modem. Manually set the ip address and dns servers if he is assigned them or just let the router get them from the campus network if they use dhcp. He may need to check with the school to see if he is allowed to run wifi from his room, they may prohibit this.

 

[JackMDS]

Consider the wall outlet as coming from the first Router and configure the Netgear like this.

Using a Wireless Router as a switch with an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html
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Please note that many colleges do not allow such use of the connection and their system might sense and disable the connection.



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[yugpatel]

Thank you fellows. I will try this. Where do I connect the cable on router, port 1 through 4 or WDS? I guess WDS as both you suggested treating router being connected to cable/dsl modem.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Thank you fellows. I will try this. Where do I connect the cable on router, port 1 through 4 or WDS? I guess WDS as both you suggested treating router being connected to cable/dsl modem.

I think you mean "WAN", not WDS. WDS is a wireless-to-wireless repeating connection to connect two routers wirelessly.

 

[yugpatel]

I think you mean "WAN", not WDS. WDS is a wireless-to-wireless repeating connection to connect two routers wirelessly.

Yes, I meant WAN (wide area network) referring to a connection on the back of the router which normally gets connected to dsl/cable modem.