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Guilhermedico's avatar
Guilhermedico
Aspirant
Nov 17, 2021
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IP address assignments with Orbi WiFi 6E (AXE)

I just received my Netgear Orbi mesh AXE11000 Quad-Band WiFi 6E RBRE960 on 11/15/2021 and spent most of 11/16/2021 dismantling my old Netgear Nighthawk X6 AC3000 Tri-Band WiFi R7900 network and insta...
  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Nov 17, 2021

    I have not used Guest Network for any of my IoT devices. Yes Guest Networks give a different .2.# address and is by design. 

    I also have mixed mode WPA2 and WPA3 set on my RBRE. Been working well. Not using Guest Network. 

     

    The Orbi 7 and 8 series did not and does not have mixed mode WPA2 and WPA3 so if your friend set WPA3 only on the Orbi AX system, then this would be one reason why his other devices would not connect to the main wifi. He would have needed to use WPA2 settings on the main there. 

     

    Orbi 9 Series has a IoT wifi network that NG setup specficially for 2.4Ghz IoT devices that historically had problems connecting to any Orbi system in the past. Hopefully this will help for users of the 9 series Orbi and these IoT devices. 

     

     

Blanca_O's avatar
Blanca_O
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 18, 2021

Hi Guilhermedico

 

Thanks for sharing your review with us and the community. 

 

As what FURRYe38 mentioned, devices on the Guest network will get 192.168.2.x IP addresses. In addition, devices on the Main, IoT and 6GHz network will get 192.168.1.x.

 

Regards,
Blanca
Community Team