Need help on using old D-Link router as WAP
The WiFi signal in our stick home, is weak, where we have a flatscreen on which I want to use a Roku dongle. The Roku picks up the signal, but programs pause to re-load the buffer. If I use the Roku o...
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First of all, replacing those routers won't fix any of your problems. You still need to log in and do config. You didnt mention what Netgear routers you have but I have a DIR-614 on the shelf and there is no reason it wont work. It wont run DD-WRT either :(. Just stay clear of anything thats not at least 100mb thruput if those spares are that old, or the old blue metal netgear case
IF the router is alive and you have given it a first birthday reset, it should be set to factory default. If you google something like 'router password' you will find several websites of all default passwords ever issued from the factory. If you literally cannot get into the devices after that then they may infact be dead.
As for channel config., if you are trying to extend network, move the routers to the opposite end of the band, passwords can be the same or not, but if any of those are N routers, they take up several channels, so choose channels 1 & 9 to be safe. If you dont want to screw with the FIOS router and it has an ethernet connection I would look into turning it into a modem only and do your device managment externally.
BTW- the reason I have that -614 and several like it on the shelf is that there are so many wifi devices in the house (20+), I have choked and killed them all. The latest router is a Linksys WRT 1900AC thats a high end gaming router, and the only one i have ever owned that hasnt so much as burped since installed.
IF the router is alive and you have given it a first birthday reset, it should be set to factory default. If you google something like 'router password' you will find several websites of all default passwords ever issued from the factory. If you literally cannot get into the devices after that then they may infact be dead.
As for channel config., if you are trying to extend network, move the routers to the opposite end of the band, passwords can be the same or not, but if any of those are N routers, they take up several channels, so choose channels 1 & 9 to be safe. If you dont want to screw with the FIOS router and it has an ethernet connection I would look into turning it into a modem only and do your device managment externally.
BTW- the reason I have that -614 and several like it on the shelf is that there are so many wifi devices in the house (20+), I have choked and killed them all. The latest router is a Linksys WRT 1900AC thats a high end gaming router, and the only one i have ever owned that hasnt so much as burped since installed.
