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Switch impacting Wifi
Hello, I have a GS116 unmanaged switch that connects to my house. As of late when this switch is connected it somehow brings my house’s entire wifi network down. I have an XB7 gateway from Shaw cable...
When I removed the NG300 as you mentioned wifi started working again. That being said this router still needs to be connected to my gateway wifi modem otherwise cameras won’t work. When I connected directly to gateway modem the wifi in the house stopped working again. Could their be an issue with the NG router?
Vbseq wrote:
When I removed the NG300 as you mentioned wifi started working again. That being said this router still needs to be connected to my gateway wifi modem otherwise cameras won’t work. When I connected directly to gateway modem the wifi in the house stopped working again. Could their be an issue with the NG router?
Nope, a pure operational issue! Of course, you can keep this legacy N300 router in place. Just avoid inter-connecting the different LAN subnets (the N300 router LAN ports vs. your bigger home network made up from the Shaw XB7 network ports with the GS116 switch) together. A mess is predictable as you learned the hard way. You can't randomly interconnect to standalone broadcast domains and IP subnetworks.
- Thank you. I don’t connect anything in the lab ports. Just the main wifi in order to establish signal for the cameras.
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