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Router keeps randomly reassigning IP to new AX1800 (EAX14) MESH extender
Our home internet is via Bellsouth with their (fill in your favorite expletive) router for Uverse service. We can't change the router without losing ISP completely incuding our landline (VoIP) teleph...
satscout wrote:
The router (gateway?) is a BGW210 from AT&T/Bellsouth. ---It can be put in passthrough mode so it only acts as a modem. Then you can connect your own router to it. Plenty of guides on google on how to do this. It is the primary/sole access to the internet in the house and the point of connection for the VoIP/landline phone.---Voip will still work in this mode. Because the radios, in particular the 5GHz radio, kept going out randomly and connected devices are not able to switch seamlessly to the 2.4 radio, I did a bit of digging and found the suggestion that a MESH extender might help.----are you sure its just the wireless having issues? do you have hardwired devices and do they drop? I find it strange that you've had it replaced and both have the same issue.
How does one go about setting a static IP for the extender? ---You'll have to ask on ATT's site of check google. there's probably a few guides on their forums. We know the netgear side of things. I can't find a setting in the router that allows me to do it.
I have never intentionally set static IPs for other devices, but the router seems to recognize certain IPs as static for those devices anyway - like my PC, my son's PC, tablets, etc. The new extender is the only device that isn't being recognized and held still.----Makes me think it could be the wifi having issues (that I was doubting) and when its reconnecting, its getting assigned a new ip address.
I am also unclear on the distinction between a "router" and a "gateway". In our case the AT&T BGW210 is a single device that may be serving both purposes.---A router is a router only device. It doesn't have a modem built in. The BGW210 has a modem built in that allows it to connect to att service.
Thank you for taking the time to try to help me.
The router (gateway?) is a BGW210 from AT&T/Bellsouth. It is the primary/sole access to the internet in the house and the point of connection for the VoIP/landline phone. Because the radios, in particular the 5GHz radio, kept going out randomly and connected devices are not able to switch seamlessly to the 2.4 radio, I did a bit of digging and found the suggestion that a MESH extender might help.
How does one go about setting a static IP for the extender? I can't find a setting in the router that allows me to do it.
I have never intentionally set static IPs for other devices, but the router seems to recognize certain IPs as static for those devices anyway - like my PC, my son's PC, tablets, etc. The new extender is the only device that isn't being recognized and held still.
I am also unclear on the distinction between a "router" and a "gateway". In our case the AT&T BGW210 is a single device that may be serving both purposes.
Thank you for taking the time to try to help me.
satscout wrote:
The router (gateway?) is a BGW210 from AT&T/Bellsouth. ---It can be put in passthrough mode so it only acts as a modem. Then you can connect your own router to it. Plenty of guides on google on how to do this. It is the primary/sole access to the internet in the house and the point of connection for the VoIP/landline phone.---Voip will still work in this mode. Because the radios, in particular the 5GHz radio, kept going out randomly and connected devices are not able to switch seamlessly to the 2.4 radio, I did a bit of digging and found the suggestion that a MESH extender might help.----are you sure its just the wireless having issues? do you have hardwired devices and do they drop? I find it strange that you've had it replaced and both have the same issue.
How does one go about setting a static IP for the extender? ---You'll have to ask on ATT's site of check google. there's probably a few guides on their forums. We know the netgear side of things. I can't find a setting in the router that allows me to do it.
I have never intentionally set static IPs for other devices, but the router seems to recognize certain IPs as static for those devices anyway - like my PC, my son's PC, tablets, etc. The new extender is the only device that isn't being recognized and held still.----Makes me think it could be the wifi having issues (that I was doubting) and when its reconnecting, its getting assigned a new ip address.
I am also unclear on the distinction between a "router" and a "gateway". In our case the AT&T BGW210 is a single device that may be serving both purposes.---A router is a router only device. It doesn't have a modem built in. The BGW210 has a modem built in that allows it to connect to att service.
Thank you for taking the time to try to help me.