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AP wasn't on at first. It was on later on when we tried to connect things up.

We gave up trying to get everything connected to the Internet that needs to be connected to it.

I'll try again in the morning. Right now, the original router he bought is the only router connected to anything.

Some of the hardware connected to my new router, some only wanted to look for the old router, etc. It is a mess.

jimjoe said:

AP wasn't on at first. It was on later on when we tried to connect things up.

We gave up trying to get everything connected to the Internet that needs to be connected to it.

I'll try again in the morning. Right now, the original router he bought is the only router connected to anything.

Some of the hardware connected to my new router, some only wanted to look for the old router, etc. It is a mess.

You have to delete the connection info of the old router on your devices.

I can connect, then it cannot find, the Netgear router when I plug an Ethernet cable between my laptop and the Neatgear router.

Is it my firewall ?

jimjoe said:

I can connect, then it cannot find, the Netgear router when I plug an Ethernet cable between my laptop and the Neatgear router.

Is it my firewall ?

How are you using the Netgear router? is it connected to the main router (as access point) or directly to the modem?

I've tried both. Neirher works.

I did notice the Netgear has a different IP address than the Cisco. So this morning I was going to change the Neatgeat IP address to the same range as the Cisco one. As I was looking through the menus on the admin pages, I got disconnected and have not been able to connect back.

Even when I disable AVG Internet Security, it stil lcan be found in Task Manager. So I may just disconect from the Internet, uninstall AVG, try to configure the darn Neatgear router, then put verythnig back. If I still get 'unable to locate' with an Ethernet cable connectnig the laptop and the router, I'll just hammer out the router and/or the laptop and move on with my life.

jimjoe said:

I've tried both. Neirher works.

I did notice the Netgear has a different IP address than the Cisco. So this morning I was going to change the Neatgeat IP address to the same range as the Cisco one. As I was looking through the menus on the admin pages, I got disconnected and have not been able to connect back.

Even when I disable AVG Internet Security, it stil lcan be found in Task Manager. So I may just disconect from the Internet, uninstall AVG, try to configure the darn Neatgear router, then put verythnig back. If I still get 'unable to locate' with an Ethernet cable connectnig the laptop and the router, I'll just hammer out the router and/or the laptop and move on with my life.

If you are connecting the Netgear directly to the Cisco, first you have to make sure that the Netgear is in AP or Bridged mode. To do that, you have to disconnect the Cisco first and connect the Netgear first so you can access the admin page to change it to AP or Bridged mode. Just leave the IP range. It shouldn't be the same range because it's 2 separate routers (ex. 192.168.1.x and 192.168.100.x)
When you connect the Netgear to the Cisco, don't use the WAN port. Use one of the ports labeled 1,2,3 & 4 on the Netgear.

The Netgear is coming up 10.0.0.1 and I have no idea why. I had them Ethernet cabled together yesterday. The Cisco had no internet connection, local only. I don't know if Netgear router had AP or not on at the time. I didn't see a Bridged anything in the menus.

But I cannot change anything due to something blocking me from getting to the Netgear router even via direct cable from my laptop.

jimjoe said:

The Netgear is coming up 10.0.0.1 and I have no idea why. I had them Ethernet cabled together yesterday. The Cisco had no internet connection, local only. I don't know if Netgear router had AP or not on at the time. I didn't see a Bridged anything in the menus.

But I cannot change anything due to something blocking me from getting to the Netgear router even via direct cable from my laptop.

There should be a hard reset button on the Netgear somewhere in the back. Use a paper click to reset it. When you changed the IP range, something probably went wrong.

This is the setting you need to do first..







Of course Cisco should be connected to the internet if you want the Netgear to connect to the internet,too.

I haven't been able to change anything on the Netgear, and I cannot log into the admin page to do anything.