NETGEAR R6050

Specify Network Settings
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AC750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router R6050
• Primary DNS. The IP address of your ISP’s primary DNS server.
• Secondary DNS.
The IP address of your ISP’s secondary DNS server.
8. Click the Apply button.
The IP address of the router changes, and you are disconnected.
9. T
o reconnect, close and restart your browser and enter www.routerlogin.net.
Wireless Distribution System
You can set up the router to be used as a wireless base station or wireless repeater in a
wireless distribution system (WDS). A WDS lets you expand a wireless network through
multiple access points instead of using a wired backbone to link them. A wireless base
station connects to the Internet, can have wired and wireless clients, and sends its wireless
signal to an access point that functions as a wireless repeater. A wireless repeater can also
have wired and wireless clients, but connects to the Internet through the wireless base
station.
The following figure shows a wireless repeating scenario.
RepeaterBase station
access pointaccess point
Figure 6. Wireless repeating scenario
The router can function either as a base station or as a repeater:
• W
ireless base station. The router acts as the parent access point, bridging traffic to and
from the child repeater access point, as well as handling wireless and wired local