I have two netgear routers:

• Netgear fvs336gv2 (professional router)(192.168.1.1)
• Netgear wndr4500v2 (consumer router)(192.168.1.103)

The pro router is the main router fvs336gv2 (192.168.1.1) and I have plugged an ethernet cable from a port of the pro router into the internet port of the consumer router (192.168.1.103) When I have wifi connection to the consumer router (access point mode) I have a perfect internet connection the only downside is that I cannot get into the web interface of the consumer router (access point)

When I go to it gives me a default website of one of our running internal webservers (I forwarded port 80 in the main router) When I go to i get the same thing.

In the pro routers webinterface (192.168.1.1) I can see by the mac address that the ip ending with 103 is of the access point. When I plug an ethernet cable in the accesspoint 'lan' ports I also cannot enter the webinterface.

It seems (to me) that when you set a Netgear router to AP-mode, it becomes unmanageable. I have no idea how to fix this. The option to restore access to the webinterface is reset the accesspoint, but then it will be a router again with dhcp etc. and I want it to function as accesspoint (because the new pro-router has no wifi and my co-wokers macbook air has no ethernet port)

edit I identified the router which was set to accesspoint by looking in the connected lan clients of the pro/main router and searching for it's mac address

edit 2 the steps I took to get it to ap-mode are similar to

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2 Answers

Found it, webinterface was unavailable (somehow) but you can access it by installing Genie and add the ip of the access point manually

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If the Netgear device is configured as an Access Point, try rather than routerlogin.net. Assuming your device is connected to the WiFi on that AP, then this should resolve to the IP address of the AP and allow access to the Web UI in the browser (watch out for browser caching).

$ nslookup aplogin.net
Server: cache1.service.virginmedia.net
Address: 194.168.4.100
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: aplogin.net
Addresses: 192.168.0.42 192.168.0.42