The Dacota AC1200 is a stupid, cheap and weak WiFi router. I've had it for a while, and had nothing to do use it for. Then I realized that I could screw it to the underside of my desk, configure it to pull the connection down from WiFi and send it out on its ethernet ports, and connect a short ethernet cable to my desktop computer and printer -- et voila, a connection without pulling any long cables across my walls.
This is primarily notes on how to do that so I can remember the setup myself ;)
Find a way to access the DHCP server of your source network. Usually this means accessing your source router's web interface and accessing the "DHCP" tab. Configure it to have at least one IP that can't be assigned (e.g. set it to start at 192.168.1.10
). You'll need an IP that the Dacota AC1200 router can use without a DHCP lease.