![]() Similarly, if you are connected to the wireless, you can manage the NetGear. You could manage it from your desktop if you were to move the desktop's network cable to one of the four ports on the NetGear. Your desktop is connected to the WAN side of it (through a switch) and management through that is disabled by default. If you are going to manage the NetGear, you have to have access to it. I'll follow up and clarify LockDown's comment which were generally very good. It is simpler doing it this way and you will be able to get to the Netgear from your desktop. You would, at that point, probably want to give the Netgear a static IP address on your network and must make sure the DHCP server is turned off on it. ![]() Plug your network cable in to one of the LAN ports on the Netgear at which point the Netgear really becomes a Access Point. You might like the second approach better. On the good side (but not necessarily good for your setup) is that the Netgear acts as somewhat of a firewall keeping wireless users out of your wired network. Accessing them from your desktop would take some work. If you use the WAN port you split you network in to two separate networks as mentioned above and you have two different routers to keep track of. There are two sides to using two routers and it all depends on what port of the Netgear you use. It is possible to access the router from your desktop but you first need to enable remote access on it which you can't do because you don't know the password. It is your best bet because you can't remember the username and password You need to work with it from something connected to it because it is the only way you can get to 192.168.1.1 You'll lose any settings that have been made in it, specifically it will reset the LAN address to 192.168.1.1 (where it already is), DHCP will be enabled (as it already is, but the range may change), your wireless settings will reset back to what is printed on the routers label, port forwarding or any other settings will be lost, the password will be reset, and other similar things. If you can't identify to what it was changed, then you'll have to reset the router to defaults. If you tried that and were unsuccessful, then the password has been changed. ![]() I'd recommend connecting the Netgear differently, but not until you've sorted things out.Īccording to Netgear's support page for your router, the default login is admin/password. VERY important: you have two different ethernet subnets: 192.168.1.x (for the Netgear, as evidenced by your results when you were connected wirelessly to it) and 192.168.0.x (for the TG1672, as evidenced by the network scanner when connected to the LAN side of the TG1672 and by your earlier comments about browsing to 192.168.0.1). ISPs frequently (and incorrectly) call them modems when that is only part of their function. Your TG1672 is not just a modem it is also a router. The way that you have it cabled it will also act for a router for devices connected to it wired or wirelessly. Please ignore my previous comments about using it just as an access point. Can anyone advise how I can log into my router and do the firmware upgrade? I've spent several hours trying to find an answer here. but this page gives me a "Server not found" error. My notes indicate, too, that I was supposed to be able to use this URL to access my Router's maintenance page: Now my notes actually indicate that I did change the Router's IP address but the address I changed it to and this recommended one both give me "The connection has timed out" errors (I've tried clearing the cookies for these URL's but it still doesn't work. The URL is ( if you did not change the router’s IP address )." The latter page at step 3 says "Log in to the router using a Web browser. Please make sure you download the latest firmware on your WNR2000v4 as there are important security fixes. We just released a new firmware update for the NETGEAR® WNR2000v4 N300 Wireless Router. I received an email from Netgear, advising:
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