Review on 🔒 ASUS RT-N66W White: Dual-Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router - Superior Connectivity for Enhanced Performance by Brian Rogers

Bought as a second access point to the house. I was very concerned about the setup as a second router will not automatically configure the first (provided by Verizon FIOS) to see all devices on the network. It took a few attempts, but it finally worked. A few points worth noting. You need a PC. connected to this router to configure it. Depending on your location, moving the PC to the router may or may not be an easy task. I have a laptop and had to take it to the basement of the house where I installed the router. Had I found this out sooner, I might have put it up in my office before physically moving it to its final location. The router setup that started when I inserted the CD eventually stopped and kept giving me a message. This happened after the new router recognized that it was connected to an existing network and assigned itself the address 192.168.2.1 to avoid a conflict. Once I got that IP address, it turns out I could just continue with the setup, but every time I clicked "next," I got an error message. Since my configuration failed the first time, I couldn't access the new router and couldn't figure out why I can't see a device with IP 192.168.2.1 on the FIOS router. Luckily I canceled the router installer and spent 30 minutes reconfiguring the FIOS router to look up the IP address 192.168.2.1. After I aborted the installer, I had no choice but to start over. To my surprise, it worked perfectly and completed the installation. After the install was complete, I found that the FIOS router addresses the new router as 192.168.1.153, but the new router's address for all devices it connects to is 192.168.2.1, you can't see this until now , when you finish the setup . In other words, if you look at the new router configuration, you will see that the internet connection for it has the IP address 192.168.1.153, but the internal IP address for connected devices is 192.168.2.1 and the connected devices have IP addresses 192.168 .2.xx. The router setup was connected to all devices and I immediately saw a significant performance improvement, like a software update on a BD player that took 45 minutes and failed as the old router now successfully completes in 10 minutes. I still have an unsolved problem: I used to have a fixed IP for my printer and desktop. If I try to do that now, the FIOS router connecting these devices loses connection or refuses to update the IP. I've been using Auto IP for a while and it's kind of kept the same IPs, so I hope it continues to work well. Change the printer port in Windows to make it available.