Setting Your Nbg-418N V2 To Router Mode - ZyXEL Communications NBG-418N v2 User Manual

• Universal Repeater: In this mode, the NBG-418N v2 (N) can be an access point and a wireless
client at the same time. Use this mode if there is an existing wireless router or access point in
your network and you want the NBG-418N v2 (N) to wirelessly relay communications from its
wireless clients to the access point.
Figure 18 Universal Repeater

4.2 Setting your NBG-418N v2 to Router Mode

The NBG-418N v2 is set to wireless router mode by default. If it was changed and now you want to
set it back, do the following procedure.
Connect your computer to the LAN port of the NBG-418N v2.
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The default LAN IP address of the NBG-418N v2 is 192.168.1.1 in router mode (192.168.1.2 by
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default in non-router mode). In router mode, the NBG-418N v2 can assign your computer an IP
address, so you must set your computer to get an IP address automatically (computer factory
default) or give it a fixed IP address in the range between 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.254.
After you've set your computer's IP address, open a web browser such as Internet Explorer and
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type the IP address of the NBG-418N v2 as the web address in your web browser.
Log into the Web Configurator. See the
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Go to Maintenance > Sys OP Mode > General and select Router.
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Figure 19 Maintenance > Sys OP Mode > Router
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Chapter 2 on page 17 for instructions on how to do this.
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