NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
XR500 DHCP issues
I have an xr500 which I bought about a year ago. When I got gigabit fiber internet. I've added a lot of 2.4ghz only smart switches, Echo devices, TVs, and cameras. At this point I'm at around 49 devic...
To answer your questions:
1. It can help in some cases yes but not for everyone. I do still suggest it. Moreover what would help if possible is to give the XR a static IP upstream if at all possible.
2. It's really up to you, either setup should be fine, mesh would be better for coverage if that is a concern. I believe that the router would assign an IP to the master node and any additional nodes would receive an IP from the master node.
3. If you want the R6700 to handle DHCP then I can't think of a better configuration with that currently. I assume you use the XR for its features for gaming etc and for QoS across the network so that needs to be upstream of the R6.
1. It can help in some cases yes but not for everyone. I do still suggest it. Moreover what would help if possible is to give the XR a static IP upstream if at all possible.
2. It's really up to you, either setup should be fine, mesh would be better for coverage if that is a concern. I believe that the router would assign an IP to the master node and any additional nodes would receive an IP from the master node.
3. If you want the R6700 to handle DHCP then I can't think of a better configuration with that currently. I assume you use the XR for its features for gaming etc and for QoS across the network so that needs to be upstream of the R6.