I would like to use a second router (AC750 Wi-Fi Travel Router) as an access point to provide wifi in a part of the house that is not covered by the wifi of the main router (Zyxel VMG8825-T50). I can connect to the wifi of the second router, but there’s no internet.
I tried different solutions (see below) with no success. I have contacted the customer service of the second router multiple times and I now suspect that something may be wrong in the configuration of the main router.
I connected the second router via a working (tested!) ethernet cable to a LAN port of the main router.
- I configured the second router to use the DHCP server of the main router. The second router does not get listed in the ARP table, so probably it never gets an IP address.
- I manually assigned a static IP address (192.168.0.42) to the second router, which I registered with the main router (Network setting > Home Networking > Static DHCP). The static address is not in the range of addresses managed by the DHCP server (192.168.0.100 ~ 192.168.0.254) and I set the address of the main router (192.168.0.1) as gateway address for the second router.
I have rebooted both routers after changing settings and I disabled MAC filtering and Firewall on the main router.
What do you advise?