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Spanky2k
Oct 10, 2018Initiate
Attached devices in the web ui and in the app appear to be incorrect
I set up my new RBK53 and after some teething issues with one of the satellites and some forced firmware updates, everything seems to be going well. One thing I've noticed though is that in the Web U...
ekhalil
Oct 11, 2018Master
Spanky2k wrote:
the attached devices don't seem to display correctly. Firstly, most of them say "Wired" even though they have to be connected through WiFi - my iPhone, iPad and my Nest Thermostats, for example, all say they have a "Wired" connection.
Do you have any wired devices connected by LAN cables to any of the Satellites?
The following is my observation regarding "wired" iPhones:
I noticed this morning that my log is full of these DHCP messages:
[DHCP IP: 192.168.1.24] to MAC address 8c:8e:f2:13:bd:87, Thursday, October 11, 2018 07:16:22
[DHCP IP: 192.168.1.25] to MAC address 48:4b:aa:2d:52:5d, Thursday, October 11, 2018 07:16:21
[DHCP IP: 192.168.1.24] to MAC address 8c:8e:f2:13:bd:87, Thursday, October 11, 2018 07:16:20
[DHCP IP: 192.168.1.25] to MAC address 48:4b:aa:2d:52:5d, Thursday, October 11, 2018 07:16:18
[DHCP IP: 192.168.1.24] to MAC address 8c:8e:f2:13:bd:87, Thursday, October 11, 2018 07:16:11
[DHCP IP: 192.168.1.25] to MAC address 48:4b:aa:2d:52:5d, Thursday, October 11, 2018 07:16:10
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.... and continues for ever!
- Those two IP addresses are for 2 iPhones, when I checked the "Attached Devices" I saw that only those 2 iPhones were listed as "Wired". All other devices looked ok
- The DHCP messages continued to show in the log even if I switch off the phones
- The DHCP messages only stopped when I disconnected the switch which is connected to the Satellite LAN port. To that switch I have a number of devices connected (3 speakers, Apple TV, Dreambox, Samsung Blu Ray, Wii).
- When the DHCP messages stopped, at the same time the iPhones started to show up as "5G" in the "Attached Devices" list.
Do you see similar behavior?