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RBK753 IP address range
My systems IP address range (which I've not changed) is currently .2 to .254. Would there be any benefit to reducing this to say, .2 to .100?
I'm also confused why this system is advertised to support up to 40 devices when the IP range suggest it can handle way more than 40 devices.
I picked it up years ago from another router mfr. What they use. Worked well for me. Just kept that schema. No reason that .2 to .102 wouldn't do the same. Try it out. You can always go back or change to something else.
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The reason it says "up to 40 devices" but has a much wider ip range is it does support a lot more devices.
But when you look at the average user, you have streaming, gaming, etc that use a lot of bandwidth. High bandwidth devices are going to saturate it. But most users don't have 40 devices streaming at the same time (that'd be to much too) but a mix of IoT devices, streaming, phones, tablets, etc. So at average, 40 devices are what it supports. If you only had IoT devices that barely use any bandwidth, you could have much more.
