It is a Netgear, I forget the model, it’s also wireless. The old Netgear came in a metal box, this one has a sleek plastic case and it only has one antenna.
If you turn off DHCP, you can assign probably any address you want of the non routable type although it would be pretty funny if it let you assign any address.
Did you not notice my funny in previous address?
Yeah, I wonder how many devices would let you enter 256 for an octet. :-)
I'm guessing there are some out there that don't check, so the behavior could be interesting. (Would it just increment the next most-significant octet, or become 0?)