I've been having a pretty strange problem here. Any fellow geeks have any ideas? We just bought a NetGear wireless router to replace an AirPort Express base station (looking for extended range, might be using the AirPort as a repeater). I'm hookig it up to a DSL modem. The DSL works fine when connected to the AirPort, or directly to my computer (Dell laptop), but it won't work going through the router.
When I hook it up to the router, the modem assigns the router an address over DHCP, the same IP as the AirPort Express, with the right subnet mask and server IP. My computer is connected to the router over Ethernet, and has a good DHCP IP from the router. I can get all of the router config pages fine, but I can't get the modem config page or anything on the web. If I connect the computer directly to the modem, without resetting anything, the modem gives me a good DHCP IP, and I can get the modem config page and the web fine.
Resetting everything multiple times hasn't helped. Also tried spoofing the computer's IP and turning off all of the router's firewall functions. No change.
One strange thing - the router's autoconfig wants to use PPPoE, but the computer and AirPort get a good connection with regular DHCP. Trying to use PPPoE anyways doesn't work either.
So, any ideas? Is NetGear just crap? Did I screw up something obvious?