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netgear nighthawk x4 EX7300, Causing network performance issues.
I recently bought a new netgear nighthawk x4 EX7300 range extender. When I installed and connected to my router I noticed that performance on my devices that are hard wired to the router had slowed d...
Since posting this morning, I have used a network analyser and found that I am getting duplicate IP addresses on my network. This only happens when I plug the EX7300 in and connect to the router using wifi.
The EX7300 is configured to use the main router as its DNS server but despite this seems to be issuing IP addresses that the main router has issued to other devices on the network.
Anyone know what may be causing this to happen??
Hello ChrisW61
You may want to try and use address reservation on the main router and reserve the IP that the extender is using. You can also try to factory reset the extender and do the setup again to make sure its not just some odd behavior it is doing.
DarrenM