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I want to use my DSL modem router as a WIFI extender/access point. My problem is that I no longer have a phone-line internet connection, so I cant get into the router login page to reconfigure the settings. Can this be done without internet connection? make ZyXEL and model P-660HW-T1 v3
I have purchased a netgear router modem and 2 netgear wifi extenders, but i want to set up the old router as an access point also.
Hi ger. This question might be answerable if you [edit] your question to state the exact make and model of the modem in question. As it stands, this is unanswerable because every make and model of modem is going to be different. – a CVn – 2015-06-13T12:50:14.043
make ZyXEL and model P-660HW-T1 v3 – ger – 2015-06-13T12:54:07.240
What if you plug a telephone cable in there anyway. – barlop – 2015-06-13T19:27:57.023
I have seen a ZyXel that wouldn't let me configure it unless it was plugged into the wall with a telephone cable, very very strange that was. I think maybe it didn't even bring a page up.. Obviously nobody is going to have Internet access the moment they plug it in.. But it may be you need a phone line in there. Nevertheless, try plugging it in anyway even though you lack a phone line (if you have a socket to plug it in!) and see if it lets you. And call Zyxel. (though I think I called them and they told me to plug it into the phone line.. and I had a phone line). – barlop – 2015-06-13T19:29:52.567
maybe you can plug it into a friend/neighbours phone line or else somehow fool it into thinking it is plugged into a phone line..An electronic shop like maplin may have some ideas if it really need sto be fooled into thinking it is plugged into a phone line to be configured.. But if it does it may just be a one off just to get it configured, so try plugging it into a friends. Though even then it'll be frustrating for you if you have to do that.. – barlop – 2015-06-13T19:31:44.873