Sat Aug 25, 2018 10:58 pm by atc98092
OK, on the 2nd floor, connect the cat 5 cable from the first floor to the yellow WAN jack. I suggest setting a static IP address for the router turned WAP. If you are using 192.168.0.x for your address range, I suggest using 192.168.0.240 or higher. The NETMASK would be 255.255.255.0, and your default gateway and DNS server would be your 1st floor router (probably 192.168.0.1). and of course it has to be in Access Point mode.
On the third floor, I can't find any documentation that you can make this one a WAP. Yes, I see your screenshot showing the operating mode as Access Point, but the documentation doesn't mention it. But since it's also a Netgear, it's likely the same as the 2nd floor for config, so again connect the yellow WAN jack to the cable that comes from the lower floor. Assign it a static IP as well, just with a different number than the 2nd floor. If you use .240 there, use .245 here. These numbers are high enough so it's unlikely your main router will ever assign an IP address that matches what you are using here. Make sure you record what the IP addresses are, so you can log into them as necessary as needed.
One further suggestion: don't use the same SSID for all three routers, as well as a different SSID for 2.4 and 5 GHz. For example, on mine I have my SSID, the the number of the band (2.4 or 5) and then something to identify each floor. So yours might be SSID5a for the first floor, SSID5b for the second floor, and SSID5c for the third.
Dan
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