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Win10 Reports C7000 has connection issues/problems
I bought my Nighthawk C7000 just over 2 years ago and have rarely had a problem, other than not getting very good WiFi range in an apartment with relatively thicker plaster and metal lathe walls....
I've solved the problem and I will figure out the nature of keeping the extender/bridge assigned in the proper IP range.. On occasion I'd turn on an Asus Asus RT-AC88U router/extender set in extender mode to reach weak spots. It's a fantastic device and connected to the c7000 via ethernet. For some reason the c7000 began to assign it 192.168.1.1 (perhaps the extender reset) and , for reasons I cannot explain, the c7000 decided to occasionally provision wireless devices under the 192.168.1.x IP address format rather than just drawing from the DHCP server. One mobile device might connect but the Pixel just could not. Shutting off the extender and rebooting the phone now seems to connect the phone to the router.
I couldn't understand this as this setup worked so well until recently. Hopefully now we can fix this and move on. Thank you all for your prior help.
The IP address of the c7000 is 192.168.0.1. It assigned about 16 or so devices in the 192.168.0.xxx range beow 254. However, the phone (which is device 15, 16, 17 or 18 dependeing on what may be trying to connect) is always assigned 192.168.1.xxx - usually 237 and I have no idea why it's not assigning it and another deivce one of the many addresses in the 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.254 range. The LAN settings restrict the DHCP server to assignment in that range.
And as I mentioned above, I even found a way to manually assign a static IP address to the MAC address of the phone and the router simply ignores it.
I've solved the problem and I will figure out the nature of keeping the extender/bridge assigned in the proper IP range.. On occasion I'd turn on an Asus Asus RT-AC88U router/extender set in extender mode to reach weak spots. It's a fantastic device and connected to the c7000 via ethernet. For some reason the c7000 began to assign it 192.168.1.1 (perhaps the extender reset) and , for reasons I cannot explain, the c7000 decided to occasionally provision wireless devices under the 192.168.1.x IP address format rather than just drawing from the DHCP server. One mobile device might connect but the Pixel just could not. Shutting off the extender and rebooting the phone now seems to connect the phone to the router.
I couldn't understand this as this setup worked so well until recently. Hopefully now we can fix this and move on. Thank you all for your prior help.
Glad you figured it out.
Keep a back up configuration of the router on had for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed.
Enjoy.
flinky wrote:
For some reason the c7000 began to assign it 192.168.1.1 (perhaps the extender reset) and , for reasons I cannot explain, the c7000 decided to occasionally provision wireless devices under the 192.168.1.x IP address format rather than just drawing from the DHCP server.
It's more than unlikely the C7000 does change it's DHCP config.issuing 192.168.1.x addresses. Much more likely this extender which is a router in it's heart has started to operate it's own DHCP service (as part of the factory reset which does almost certainly make it a router again) on the same network, creating the mess.
