How do i edit router settings on a second router?

ralv585 · 1 Jul 2012 at 13:58

Hi guys, think i'll just explain my set-up before i dive into my question.

In my living room, i have my main netgear router, i've used a homeplug to connect it to another router in my room.

I can receive wireless signal and connect to the internet through the second router easily.

I can change settings on the router in the living room no problem, but i want to change the settings of the router in my room, but i don't know where to find it?

when i go to routerlogin.com, it takes me to the router from the living room, even though i'm logged on to the router in my room.

How do i go about logging into this second router?

Tealc · 1 Jul 2012 at 15:32

Usually you'd log into its web interface with its ip address preceeded by http://

For example my Internet router is 192.168.0.2 I type http://192.168.0.2

My wireless access point is 192.168.0.1 So I type http://192.168.0.1

My repeater is http://192.168.0.254

You get the picture.

ralv585 · 1 Jul 2012 at 15:47

Looking at my laptop is telling me, it says i'm connected to the router in my room under this ip address: 192.168.0.4.

I've tried putting the http:// in front of it, tried deleting the . but still no luck.

I have found this though, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100319053547AA0W8BP

I'll give that a try a little later.

Can anyone confirm the above is the correct method?

Duke · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:15

192.168.0.4 is the IP address of your laptop, which isn't what you want to connect to - so it should be 0.2 at a guess.

ralv585 · 1 Jul 2012 at 17:36

managed to figure it out

If anyone is in my situation, basically, i turned off my main router, and did a hard reset of the second router.

With only the second router turned on, i went to routerlogin.com and logged in there, changed the ip address to 192.168.0.10 (added the 0 at the end), so now i can log into both and change settings if i want to

Duke · 1 Jul 2012 at 18:15

Make sure you turn off DHCP on the second router, else it will cause problems.

ralv585 · 1 Jul 2012 at 18:17

Yep, forgot to mention that!

Also change channels so your devices don't get confused.

Sin_Chase · 3 Jul 2012 at 16:51

ravl585 said:
Yep, forgot to mention that!

Also change channels so your devices don't get confused.

Being on the same channel will not confuse devices. It's merely best practice to get into different non-overlapping channels to avoid congestion and potential performance impact.