Use Your Old Netgear Router As Repeater, Extender,access point

this is a tutorial on how to use your old neck your Wi-Fi router as an access point what you're gonna want to do is reset it by pushing the little hole in the back with something pointy then you're gonna want to wait to every boots this is gonna be so easy anybody could do it you deserve to switch a couple of the settings and you said so you're gonna need to make sure that you're not logged into the internet once you plug the router into the computer then what you're gonna want to do is plug in an Ethernet connection into one of the ports in the back not the not the Wi-Fi like Ethernet connection port so you're gonna be using one of these other for some next what you're gonna want to do is get your routers address so you go to systems preference network and switch show to build an Ethernet and what we're looking for is the router address so we could customize the settings then you're gonna have to set up your routers since we factor you reset it it in the beginning so answer the questions they shouldn't be able to detect the network connection since we plugged it into the other four ports not a Wi-Fi connection port and the internet says they'll be off so here's just telling you the ethernet cables not plugged in so you go to manual connection then you just set up your new password to get into your router and then confirm the password answer the two questions I'm just gonna put any quick answer since this is just with tutorial real purposes so what you're gonna want to do is go over to your wireless and then you're gonna set up your network names and passwords so for the first one I'm just gonna name it Skywalker Fuji then you're gonna have to choose a password so I'm just gonna go with Guzman 2020 damn em again make the second connection Skywalker 5g since it's a dual band router and I'm just gonna choose the same password then you're gonna apply to save the settings once it's done updating what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna go over to advanced settings then you go to advanced setup router and ap mode which is access point or you could choose bridge mode and then you just apply it and save the settings and you basically set with the setup so you're gonna want to wait until it's fully rebooted since we're switching from router to access point it takes a little bit longer once this thing's done basically what you do is just unplug the router from your computer and then you just go plug it into your current router into one of the four ports since we're not using the Wi-Fi port so what you're gonna want to do is look for the connection check if it's working properly as you can see I found mine right since I'm on my phone I'm basically just gonna use an app to test it as you can see everything improperly and that's it thank you for watching and hit the like button

Channel: Raditz Adept

Views: 72,702

Keywords: #wifirepeater, #wifiextender, #wifibooster, #oldnetgearrouter, #wifiacesspoint, #oldrouter

Id: opY6twxCa8U

Length: 9min 16sec (556 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 24 2020