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beckss1's avatar
beckss1
Tutor
Dec 14, 2018

Problem with wired connection RBR40.

Dear community. I worked with my ORBI (RBR40) for 5 months and today I connect (wired) to router IX220 (LenovoEMC Storage). Two things happened, that I would like ask gurus: 1. After connection I...
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ekhalil's avatar
ekhalil
Master
Dec 14, 2018
Looks that you have two routers providing DHCP functionality: Orbi and your ISP router.
You have to either bridge your ISP router or change Orbi to AP mode.
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    beckss1
    Tutor
    Dec 14, 2018

    Thanks for quick answer, but if I use wireless connection in home all devices are connected to Orbi WLAN (I mean 192.168.1.X) and not to ISP addresses. 

    Why  wired connection is not use it if I connect to ORBI router?

    Thanks and best regards,

     

    • ekhalil's avatar
      ekhalil
      Master
      Dec 14, 2018
      Because when you attach to wifi the device gets (as part if the wifi attach procedure) the Orbi IP address as the gateway and DHCP server address, but this is not the case for wired devices, where this will be random, the server that replies first will be the gateway, so the same device can get the IP address one time from the ISP router and other time from Orbi.
      It’s not recommended to have two routers in your network, you will get many such random issues.