Netgear WAC104 – Dual Band 802.11ac Wireless Access Point User Manual

Connect the Ethernet cable that came in the package to one of the access point’s Ethernet ports.
You can use any of the four LAN ports on the access point.

Connect the other end of the cable to a LAN port on your router.

Power on the access point.
The Power LED   lights solid green. If the Power LED does not light, press the 

Power On/Off button.

Wait for the WiFi LED   to light solid green. If the WiFi LED does not light, press the 

button.
For the next step, you can use WiFi to connect your WiFi device to the access point or you can use a

computer and an Ethernet cable to connect to a LAN port on the access point.

Connect to the access point by doing one of the following:

Connect your WiFi device to the access point by using one of the WiFi network names (SSIDs) on

the product label. A network key or password is not required.

For more information, see 

 on page 23.

Connect a computer to a LAN port on the access point by doing the following:

Record the IP address and subnet mask of your computer so that you can reinstate these IP

address settings when you complete the configuration of the access point.

Temporarily change the IP address on your computer to 192.168.0.210 with 255.255.255.0 as

the subnet mask.

(You can actually use any IP address in the 192.168.0.2–192.168.0.254 range, with the exception

of IP address 192.168.0.100, which is the default access point IP address.)

For more information about changing the IP address on your computer, see the help or

documentation for your computer.

Use another Ethernet cable (not provided) to connect your computer to a LAN port on the access

point.

To customize the features of the access point, log in to the access point by doing the following:

Open a web browser from the computer that is connected to the access point.

Enter

192.168.0.100 in the address field of the web browser.

Because the DHCP client of the access point is disabled by default, the access point does not

receive an IP address from the router’s DHCP server and you must the default IP address of the

access point.

When prompted, enter 

admin for the user name and password for the password.

The access point’ web management interface displays.

Change the settings as needed.
For more information, see the sections in this manual.