So I recently moved again and I won't get my crappy adsl connection turned on until 20 days. However my friend lives right across the street and he offered to share his connection. Running a cable would be a bit problematic but using my old gateway as a repeater could work. He got a garage "in the middle of the street" (difficult to explain) however the gateway is placed well within his WiFi.
The gateway is a Netgear DGN2200. I have went into the settings and enabled wireless repeating function and then I entered his gateways wireless MAC address into my gateway(now a repeater). However as soon as I do this I cannot access my gateways settings anymore and I have to reset it's settings. I have tried both the MAC address for the WiFi and the LAN but I get the same problem. I also have to enter a new ip address for my repeater and I wonder if I can enter whatever or should it be something special?
Anyone know something I can try?