I take care of two separate networks, one at our home and one at a relative's place a few miles away. Our house has a microwave connection to the local ISP, the other place has a DSL connection. Both networks work just fine; the network wifi names and passwords are different.
My question arises because the routers are identical (Netgear R6400) and from time to time I have my MacBook Air connected at one location, and at other times the other location. The computer connects easily and automatically to wifi at whatever network it's in, but I'd like to have Keychain memorize each router's administrative password, too. Each router's administrative password is different, and I'd like to keep them so.
It's easy to set up a Safari bookmark (with Keychain password) to log me in as administrator on my home network, but going to the relative's house to administer that network means the MacBook Air faces a different router with the same IP as the router at my home. This requires some dancing to retrieve (or have written down) the administrative password for the relative's router. For security reasons, I don't wish to enable remote administration, and I am content to do administration only when I'm within each network.
If the routers each had different admin login names, this'd be easy. But both names are "admin," and I see nothing in the routers' web interface that allows a name change.
Both routers came from the factory with the same LAN IP address: 192.168.1.1. Having different IP addresses for each router would would also allow easy and discrete login to both systems. On the router's administration page at my home, I see this:
Can I just change the LAN IP Address on one of the routers, say to 192.200.1.1? With a separate Safari bookmark for each router, I'd be good to go.
Thanks!