Making a wireless Netgear router an access point
I have a wireless Netgear router (model WNR3500L) I am attempting to make into a simple access point. I have been told this is easy to do, but am running into problems. I am trying to give the router an address of 192.168.1.39 on the LAN (or WAN appearing on the router). I have my ethernet cable plugged into one of the 4 LAN ports, not the WAN port. Then for the router LAN, I have the router's address set to the same as the WAN. I only want the router to be able to give out 6 addresses, starting at 192.168.1.40 and ending at .45. I realize to do this I would have to change the subnet mask to 255.255.255.248, which I have done. The issue is the router is not allowing me to write this configuration to memory. Am I trying to do something that is impossible? If so, any alternate ideas?
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When I try to set the starting and ending IP adresses for the router DHCP server, I am given the following error:
"The IP address conflicts with the WAN IP subnet. Please enter a different IP address."
If I do change the subnet mask to 255.255.255.248 and try to save the configuration, I am given the following error:
"Invalid IP address. Please enter it again. Invalid DHCP ending and starting IP addresses. Please enter them again."