How to Install Your Router

This describes making the wired connection from your computer to a modem and to the Internet. It does not apply to newer routers such as WPN824, WGR614v4, and WGT624v2.

This assumes that your computer was connected to the Internet before adding the NETGEAR router. If you were not connected before, contact your ISP, and get that connection working, first.

  1. Turn off the power on your computer.
  2. Securely connect an end of an Ethernet cable to your computer, as shown.
  3. Securely connect the other end to any of the router's four LAN ports.
  4. Connect a second Ethernet cable from the router's single WAN port to the modem.
  5. Make sure the modem is connected to the jack or cable to the Internet that was set up by your ISP.

  1. Start your network in this order:
    1. Turn the modem power off.
    2. Turn the router power off.
    3. Turn the modem power back on. Wait two minutes until the lights are stable.
    4. Turn the router power back on. Wait one minute until the lights are stable.
    5. Turn the computer power back on.
  2. Open an Internet browser, and type http://192.168.0.1.

If a "Configuration Assistant" appears immediately, then do not follow the rest of these instructions. Follow the Configuration Assistant instructions, instead. Once you are finished, test your Internet connection by browing online, for example to http://kbserver.netgear.com.

  1. Type admin for User Name, and password for Password. (Older routers use 1234 as the password.)
  2. Click OK. This logs you into the router.

  1. Click Setup Wizard, on the left of the router settings page.

  1. Select Yes, and click Next.
  2. Only if a window reading "PPPoE Detected" appears, then do Steps a, b, and c.
    1. Click Next.
    2. Type the login name and password from your ISP. Make sure to use the complete email address, for example, yourname@sbcglobal.net.
    3. Change Idle Timeout to O. (Leave the Service Name blank.)

 

  1. Click Apply. The router settings screen appears.
  2. Click Logout.
  3. Test your Internet connection by browing online, for example to http://kbserver.netgear.com.

N101511.asp Aug. 2, 2005