Hi MsMittens...
Thanks for the followup.

To answer somw of yoou questions:

BTW, which one is the DSL router? I thought both were simply SOHO routers rather than specific for a broadband.
Your correct, bth are SOHO routers, my bad...

Unless I'm misunderstanding, this isn't true. Both of mine are set to DHCP clients. You may want to look at telnetting to the routers as you get more options. Have you ensured you have appropriate upgrades on the firmware?
Default is to use DHCP to receive an IP address on the WAN interface. In my work environment, I have to use static IPs on the company network. Users that use SOHO routers must configure their WAN interface with an assigned static IP address. When set with a static IP, these issues occur.

The DHCP I didn't know about but I do see somewhat of a reason for it: when you chain the routers together, they will need an address. Since these are SOHO or Home use routers, that would make some sense.
To function as a DHCP server on the LAN interfaces makes sense. However, to be a DHCP serever on the WAN interface doesn't. Especially if the DHCP service on the WAN interface issues IP addresses reserved for the SOHO's LAN interfaces. Basically the SOHO is assigning the same block of IP addresses on both the WAN and LAN interfaces.




I have not tried this, however, if I was to connect a PC directly to a Cable/DSL network and static assign my PC with 192.168.0.x, would I be able to web admin someone else's netgear router? Would I be able to use it as an anonmymous proxy?

Just wondering, right now this is what's happening in the SOHO environment. After getting a MAC addresses on the network, I forced the arp table to different Netgear MAC and was able to access their web admin client. If they changed their passwords, I didn't try cracking it, but I don't think that would be too difficult after reading some of the things on AntiOnline.

As for versions: my RP114 are using the latest firmwares.

For the RP614s, these are some other users on the network. When I try to web admin the device, the login window states RP614v2.

I tried asking Netgear about this issue, but they just asked me to pay and call customer service. I thought I'd ask the community for better advice.

Thanks