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DHCP Server Settings R6300 V2
I am using my R6300 v2 as my wifi network with a Verizon FIOS modem and router. I am using several homekit devices on the network including a Lutron Caseta bridge. I have been having intermittent ser...
> I am using my R6300 v2 as my wifi network with a Verizon FIOS modem
> and router.
Why? "a Verizon FIOS modem and router" is not a very detailed
description of anything. Does this thing have its own wireless-network
capability?
> I have been having intermittent service from homekit and was told by
> Lutron that is probabaly because my R6300 has DHCP turned on and that
> this is conflicting with the DHCP server on the main modem and router.
Not really. Depending on what "intermittent service from homekit"
actually means, the real problem might be that you have cascaded two
routers, rather than anything to do with DHCP, as such.
> I went into the settings and turned off DHCP on the Netgear but then I
> coudn't connect to the internet wirelessly on any devices.
Yup.
What you may want in this case is to configure the R6300v2 as a
wireless access point. Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your
model number, and look for Documentation. Get the User Manual. Look
for "Wireless Access Point".
Interestingly, configuring the R6300v2 as a WAP will disable its DHCP
server, but it will also put devices which connect to it onto the LAN of
your primary router, so that that router's DHCP server will serve them.
This might be what the Lutron person meant.
I just got off the phone with Lutron. What I needed to do was disable the DHCP on the Netgear router. Then I changed the port on the back of the netgear router to go into a LAN port from the Fios vs a WAN. This way it just acts as an extender of the network instead of a new DHCP etc. After doing that everything worked perfectly.
> I just got off the phone with Lutron.
Who may not be the best source of info on Netgear routers.
> [...] What I needed to do was disable the DHCP on the Netgear router.
> Then I changed the port on the back of the netgear router to go into a
> LAN port from the Fios vs a WAN. This way it just acts as an extender of
> the network instead of a new DHCP etc. [...]
It's one of the things which you could do, not exactly what you
"needed" to do. As usual, many things are possible. What you did is
approximately equivalent to configuring the R6300v2 as a WAP using the
built-in option. Some advantages of using the explicit WAP mode in the
R6300v2 user interface are that it's one step, and it leaves you with
one more free LAN port.
The use-a-LAN-port-and-disable-the-DHCP-server method should work on
almost any router (including your R6300v2). The ADVANCED > Wireless AP
option in the R6300v2 is a little easier/better. Either should work.
Note that (either way) if you want to access the web site on the
R6300v2, then it helps to know the IP address of the R6300v2. Assuming
that you can reserve a DHCP address for it on your (unspecified) main
router, then that might be helpful. Alternatively, you can assign a
static address to the R6300v2 (which Netgear discourages ("select the
enable fixed IP setting on this device (not recommended) check box").