How to Use Netgear DGN2000 As a Repeater

Your Netgear DGN2000 can easily be set up to be used as a wireless repeater. Wireless repeaters greatly expand the size of your wireless network. If one of your wireless devices is out of range of the main modem, you can set up another router to act as a messenger sending signals back and forth between the device and the main modem.

Your Netgear DGN2000 can easily be set up to be used as a wireless repeater.
If one of your wireless devices is out of range of the main modem, you can set up another router to act as a messenger sending signals back and forth between the device and the main modem.

Place the wireless router in a location so it can connect wirelessly to the main router and the user farthest away. Install the router's software, if necessary.

Open your Internet browser. Type "192.168.1.1" into the address bar and press "Enter." Log into the router's configuration utility as the administrator.

Click on the "Basic Settings" tab, and then click on the "IP Address" text box.

Change the last number in the IP address to any number higher than the number of computers or printers attached to the network. Scroll down to the "DNS" heading, and then click on the "disable DNS forwarding."

Click on the "Advanced Settings" tab, and then click on the radio box marked as "Disable" under the DHCP heading.

Lawrence Stephens has been writing professionally since 2008. He has written on a variety of topics for newspapers and websites, including Bizcovering and "The Harbor Sound." He has worked as a ghostwriter in fiction and nonfiction. In addition to writing full time, he is working toward a Bachelor of Science in computer programming from the University of Phoenix.