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ORBI PRO first install - does not work - incredible lack of support
I bought an Orbi Pro 9 months ago because there was an offer on Amazon and I was buying a new home. Just in these days I am finally in my new home, and now trying to setup the Orbi. The 2 satellite ...
Well, many things are possible. However, currently you operate two routers, the TIM one, and the Orbi Pro. With this environment, you can't have to routers with two local networks, and the same LAN IP subnet. Said that before: You can't have the TIM LAN and the Orbi Pro WAN/Internet side one one LAN and IP subnet.
Possible alternate approaches would be to use the TIM router as the primary NAT router and operate the Orbi Pro as a pure Access Point (loosing the possibility to have the Orbi Pro handing more than one LAN IP subnet) , or change the TIM router to bridge mode, and terminate the IP on the Orbi Router WAN Interface (giving up the limited capabilities of the TIM router).
If you insist (for whatever unknown reason) to use 192.168.1.1 as the Orbi Pro Router LAN, you need to reconfigure the TIM router to use a different IP subnet than 192.168.1.0/24
EDIT: For what reason you think you must keep this 192.168.1.x network, and what for you need your PC connected direct to this network?.
Understood.
Why I need the same subnet....
I bought the ORBI to have full Wifi coverage of my home. The TIM router can't reach all the surface.
Suppose I am in a remote corner of the home, I have my tablet connected to ORBI Wifi so in the 10.0.1.x subnet.
With this tablet I wish to watch a video that is on my NAS. The NAS is in the wired LAN, 192.168.1.x
I am quite a newbie for these things. I think that using ORBI in access point mode is ok for me... do I lose some functions in respect to router mode ?
If the functions are the same, which is the correct way to convert ORBI to AP, without messing up everything ?
thank you!
Ginosergio wrote:
I bought the ORBI to have full Wifi coverage of my home. The TIM router can't reach all the surface.
Suppose I am in a remote corner of the home, I have my tablet connected to ORBI Wifi so in the 10.0.1.x subnet.
With this tablet I wish to watch a video that is on my NAS. The NAS is in the wired LAN, 192.168.1.x
Nothing does stop you from hanging the (unknown) NAS network port to the LAN (made up from the Orbi Router LAN ports, from the Ethernet switch connected to that very same network and even on the Orbi Pro satellite you have spare LAN ports available.
What NAS (make, model, firmware) do you have in place?
Is it configured as a DHCP client, so receiving it's IP config from the DHCP server? If yes, just change the connection and restart the NAS. If no, figure out on how you can change the NAS LAN configuration to DHCP.
Sorry friend
the NAS was just an example. I am a newbie but I have a very complicated LAN, the NAS is in DHCP but the TIM Router settings assign it a fixed IP, and the same for many other things in my house. I can not change my current configurations, it will be a mess, I would pass days to set it up again, and remember which things access what, etc...
If I can bring ORBI in the 192.168 subnet, configuring it as Access Point, that's enough for me
please explain how....
thank you
How do I configure my Orbi router to act as an access point?
You can revert the TIM router to use the 192.168.1.1 LAN IP. The Orbi Pro Router and the Orbi Pro Satellites will get a LAN DHCP address assigned.
Afraid, I'm a little bit lost why people buy expensive Orbi Pro kits, wiring everything up to a switched LAN, and using a minimum of the capability.
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