Download the firmware image from step 4 described above. Save it somewhere you will be able to find it later.

Start with the router free of all plugs and attachments, note the two front buttons.

Plug in the router, holding the circle button on the front until the rightmost light stops flashing. The left and center lights will be on and steady.

Plug in the Ethernet cable into the routers lan port. Which is the leftmost with the ports facing at you. As Pictured.

Plug the other end of the same cable into your computer.

You must now assign your computer the static ip 192.168.1.2 in a /24 subnet.

A) On Windows follow these instructions. For the box in step 5 type 192.168.1.2 in the IP Address box not 192.168.10.1 as shown in the image. A subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 is correct and the value of the other fields does not matter for this exercise.

B) On Mac follow these instructions. Fill in 192.168.1.2 in the IPv4 Adress box, not 10.1.0.99 like in the picture. A subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 is correct, after step 6 stop and press ok.

C) On Linux open a terminal and type

sudo ip addr add 192.168.1.2/24 dev eth0

Enter your password as prompted. If the command runs with no output it was successful! Go onto the next step.

If you get the message

Cannot find device "eth0"

You are probably using Fedora, Centos, or have more than one network port run the command ip a to find the correct name instead of eth0 . You are looking for a line like this.

2: enp0s31f6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000

Notice how the ‘state UP’ indicates a port where something is plugged in. Here I would run. your value will not be enp0s31f6 . It is different for every machine, please look at your own output of ip a .