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Hook up MR1100 to Wifi Router
I had an old Unite Pro that had to be hooked up through USB to a Cradlepoint which was then connected to my main rifi router. This new router has a lan port. When I plug it straight into my wifi ro...
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You can do a reset of the tplink if something has gone wrong(should be a button at the back of the tplink). As for connecting the modem to the tplink, I would connect it to one of the LAN ports. As for what went wrong, hmm did you change the ip on the LAN page to 192.168.1.100 or the WAN page? It should have been the LAN IP basically we are setting your router up as a access point so the WAN information is irrelevant
I found a tplink FAQ on this method http://www.tp-link.com.au/faq-1199.html which shows you where the settings are in the tplink
No Idea. It's up and running now, but I'm using the WAN port, M1 is in IP Passthrough mode. Is there any advantage to using WAN vs. LAN? Every time I try to set the M1 to an ip in my subnet and hook it up to LAN, I get internet, but I cannot access the M1 admin page. I want the safest and fastest setup. WAN or LAN?
As far as speed and safety goes , there is no difference. In the configuration you have you may consider it a slight advantage as the router 1 you are connected to via the WAN is still acting as a router, which probably has better routing features then the M1.The disadvantage is that the M1 disables its wifi and you need to reset it if you ever want to use it as a portable device. The M1 is no longer a router and is just a modem in this configuration. It is passing its internet IP to the connected router WAN IP. In this configuration( M1 connected to router 1 WAN) I would have disabled the M1 DHCP and used the router 1 DHCP instead. If you want to still be able to access the M1 admin page make sure its IPv4 is unique and within router 1 subnet, but outside router 1 DHCP range so there is no conflict.
MicW wrote:If you want to still be able to access the M1 admin page make sure its IPv4 is unique and within router 1 subnet, but outside router 1 DHCP range so there is no conflict.
I want to clear something up. As I have this configured, the M1 is connected to Router 1 via WAN. M1 is a pure modem. That's it.You said the M1 needs a unique IPv4 within the Router 1 subnet but out of its DHCP range. Right now, the M1 has an ip of 192.168.1.1. I can access them with no issue while connected via lan or wifi to router 1. Router 1 ip is 192.168.0.11.
So...why am I able to access the M1 even though its IP is not in the same subnet? It's not a problem, it's great, I just want to know why. The last time I tried to set the M1 as the same subnet, everything went down. I don't want to test that again.
Possibly (I'm only guessing here as I don't fully know your setup) what may be happening is router 1 is passing requests to 192.168.1.* subnet to the internet and the modem being 192.168.1.1 is responding to that before it hits the internet as it is passed out of router 1 then to the modem. I'm assuming that the pc IP address you are using is in the 192.168.0.* subnet
What might be interesting to try is a tracert 192.168.1.1 to see what path the packets take to get to your modem
I have no IP assigned to my computer. It obtains that automatically. As of right now, it is 192.168.0.12. So, the same subnet as the router 1. That makes sense since that is the DHCP server.
Here's the tracert. It's going to router 1, and then to the hotspot it looks like?
Tracing route to 192.168.1.1 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.11
2 6 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.1Trace complete.
Yes you are correct, it is going to router 1, then the hotspot. Its good you sorted it out to your satisfaction. :) if you need help with networking in the future, I'd recommend a forum at https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/ . A very active forum for this type of thing, as you notice netgear if pretty quiet.