another port forwarding static ip issue

[eyesinthedrk]

im running a netgear WNDR3400v2 as my wireless router and using a wireless extender WNDR3400v2 to reach my apex. im lost on how to set up port forwarding and static ip. can you help?

some isues compounding my lack of skill in this
in attached devices inside my router. the wireless extender has the same ip address as my apex. and apex doesnt show up

am i supposed to set p.f. and s.ip in the router or in the extender where the actual apex is plugged in?

[RussM]

You listed WNDR3400v2 twice. That's a router. What model is the range extender?

You need to set port forwarding in the router, and the Apex to have a static IP address.

The only thing you need to do with the range extender/bridge is have it connect to your existing WiFi.


Go to the router's LAN setup page. look at the start and end addresses under Use Router as DHCP Server. They probably are 10.0.0.2 & 10.0.0.254. Change the end IP address to 10.0.0.99, then Apply the new settings.

Then, in the Apex display menu, disable DHCP. Change the IP address to 10.0.0.100. The subnet mask should stay at 255.255.255.0. The default gateway should already be at 10.0.0.1; change it to that IP address if necessary. The DNS servers should also be 10.0.0.1. The end result is that the Apex will have a static IP address which is outside the range which can be dynamically assigned to other devices by the router.

If you router is not using 10.0.0.x and is using something like 192.168.1.x, just follow the above steps, bu use the first 3 parts of the IP addressing which matches your router's settings. For example, if your router is actually using 192.168.0.1 as it's LAN address, the Apex settings would be:

192.168.0.100 (IP address), 255.255.255.0 (mask), 192.168.0.1 (gateway and DNS)

Once you have this done, and can connect to the Apex locally, try configuring the port forwarding. If you have trouble in any way, post screen shots of the Apex network settings, the router's LAN setup page, and the port forwarding page.