I have a new WNCE2001 Wireless Ethernet bridge and have successfully configured it to connect my ethernet-only printer to my home network. This morning, I was unable to get to the internet from my iPod touch. I could get to my home router, but not beyond it. The reason? The DHCP on Touch had "discovered" my home network router to be 192.168.1.251 - the broadcast address of the WNCE2001. The WNCE had assigned a an IP address to my Touch. I had to configure my Touch to explicitly use my home router instead of the WNCE2001.Does anybody know how to configure the WNCE2001 so that it does not provide DHCP services to wireless devices in my home, but still provides the wireless connection for my ethernet printer?

I Am having the exact same issue - I have 10 devices in 10 different sites to enable wifi connectivity on Canon MFPs. The sites have chromebooks which randomly connect either to the main router or, at random, to the WNCE2001 with its address as a gateway resulting in no internet connectivity - SOO ridiculous. The devices are running the latest firmware and had a static ip - I will tried the suggestion to set them to DHCP and assign an address using mac address reservations on the router but no luck - has netgear not got any fixes for this yet? SUCH a destructive flaw. Thanks

The WNCE2001 is also intercepting attempted wireless connections from laptop computers in my home. All seem to be redirected to 192.168.1.251. :(

Okaaaay, then what is the cause of the symptom I am seeing? All of my wireless devices are detecting 192.168.1.251 (the IP address of the WNCE2001) as an access point using the name of our home network. When we turned the printer and WNCE2001 off, our home router returned to being the detected WLAN server.

Only passthrough th traffic so I would check your setup and make sure all the LAN Subnet is sameYou have back track all.Make sure SSID name unique and you have wpa2 encryption so that you no get hacked

WNCE2001 inappropriately providing DHCP connections

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ccurzio
Aspirant
Nov 24, 2014
I also have this exact same problem, and I have four of these bridge devices.

Netgear makes some good products, but these things are absolute GARBAGE. Hijacking a network by acting as a DHCP server and handing out completely invalid addresses is downright awful, yet that's exactly what these things are doing.

I've contacted Netgear support to try and get a fix. I don't expect to get any help whatsoever.
Reuben12
Initiate
Oct 01, 2015
I Am having the exact same issue - I have 10 devices in 10 different sites to enable wifi connectivity on Canon MFPs.

The sites have chromebooks which randomly connect either to the main router or, at random, to the WNCE2001 with its address as a gateway resulting in no internet connectivity - SOO ridiculous.

The devices are running the latest firmware and had a static ip - I will tried the suggestion to set them to DHCP and assign an address using mac address reservations on the router but no luck - has netgear not got any fixes for this yet? SUCH a destructive flaw.

Thanks
- JamesGL
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Oct 06, 2015
  Hi Reuben12,
  
  Welcome to Community!
  
  Did you install the adapter using a computer? Can you get valid IP when the adapter is set to DHCP? How far are the adapters from the router?
  
  Regards,
  
  JamesGL
  
  Community Team
  - Reuben12
    Initiate
    Oct 22, 2015
    Hi James,
    
    Yes installed using a computer - can obtain an ip when set to dhcp but I set the adapter with a static address. Adapter about 8m from the router.
    
    Any suggestions?

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WNCE2001 inappropriately providing DHCP connections