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Nighthawk and WNR 3500 in home network?
Bought a new Nighthawk and used my old WNR3500 as accesspoint in my living room. Worked for 2 month then Internet started to fail from time to time (no new H/W)
Primary Router - R7800. Act as DHCP Server, IP 192.168.1. Range 2-254
Nighthawk connected to WNR 3500 via power line (XAV5201/XWN5001)
Secondary router - R3500. NOT DHCP Server, IP 192.168.99. Range 100-200. Got this settings från Netgear Support.
It is only Internet that screws up. I´ve a Sonos system connected to router 2 playing music from external HDD connected to router 1 and this part workes when internet is down. There is no problems with internet if I put the cabel direct in my computor.
On R7800 I´ve set fixed IP adresses on my different H/W to avoid IP-conflict.
The problem is probably the power plugs or the settings in WNR3500. Anyone that have a nice instruction of how to set up WNR3500 as accesspoint?
TOOD wrote:
This is the new set up
Router 1: 192.168.1.1
Router 2 (accesspoint): 192.168.1.2
Mediadevices: 192.168.3-15
Are these devices manually configured with static IP addresses?
Only WNR3500 is static but I made an adress reservations with IP to the devices MAC-adress. Semi-static?Everything looks ok until I added my ATV2 as no 15 and changed IP range to 16-. Of some reason the Sonos components disappeared from attached devices. Internet and Sonossystem is working....
Did you leave the WAN port on the WNR3500 disconnected? You should only use a LAN port to connect to the network.
Yes, the cable from the wall plug is connected to a LAN port
It's normal for devices configured with static IP addresses to occasionally disappear from the attached devices list. The router will only display devices that it can see. A device with a static IP address will only be visible if it sends traffic through the router to the Internet.
Ok. My Sonos system picks up music from external HDD connected to router 1 so I´ll guess that the Sonos devices should be visable when playing music.
No Internet break downs for 1 day so if it still works tomorrow then the problem is solved
Cheers!
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One add-on. I´m no expert on network settings and tried to change IP range on R-7800 to 192.168.2-99 to avoid the range of WNR3500 without any improvments.
"Range 100-200" doesn't make sense, because the DHCP server on the WNR3500 is disabled.
The IP address of the WNR3500 is not in the Nighthawk's subnet. You should set it to something like 192.168.1.2 and change the range on the Nighthawk to 192.168.1.3 through 192.168.1.254.
This is the new set up
Router 1: 192.168.1.1
Router 2 (accesspoint): 192.168.1.2
Mediadevices: 192.168.3-15
DHCP range on router 1: 192.168.16-254
DHCP OFF router 2 (then my guess is that IP-range have no function here?)
Everything looks ok until I added my ATV2 as no 15 and changed IP range to 16-. Of some reason the Sonos components disappeared from attached devices. Internet and Sonossystem is working....
TOOD wrote:
This is the new set up
Router 1: 192.168.1.1
Router 2 (accesspoint): 192.168.1.2
Mediadevices: 192.168.3-15
Are these devices manually configured with static IP addresses?
DHCP range on router 1: 192.168.16-254
DHCP OFF router 2 (then my guess is that IP-range have no function here?)
Correct.
Everything looks ok until I added my ATV2 as no 15 and changed IP range to 16-. Of some reason the Sonos components disappeared from attached devices. Internet and Sonossystem is working....
Did you leave the WAN port on the WNR3500 disconnected? You should only use a LAN port to connect to the network.
It's normal for devices configured with static IP addresses to occasionally disappear from the attached devices list. The router will only display devices that it can see. A device with a static IP address will only be visible if it sends traffic through the router to the Internet.
TOOD wrote:
This is the new set up
Router 1: 192.168.1.1
Router 2 (accesspoint): 192.168.1.2
Mediadevices: 192.168.3-15
Are these devices manually configured with static IP addresses?
Only WNR3500 is static but I made an adress reservations with IP to the devices MAC-adress. Semi-static?Everything looks ok until I added my ATV2 as no 15 and changed IP range to 16-. Of some reason the Sonos components disappeared from attached devices. Internet and Sonossystem is working....
Did you leave the WAN port on the WNR3500 disconnected? You should only use a LAN port to connect to the network.
Yes, the cable from the wall plug is connected to a LAN port
It's normal for devices configured with static IP addresses to occasionally disappear from the attached devices list. The router will only display devices that it can see. A device with a static IP address will only be visible if it sends traffic through the router to the Internet.
Ok. My Sonos system picks up music from external HDD connected to router 1 so I´ll guess that the Sonos devices should be visable when playing music.
No Internet break downs for 1 day so if it still works tomorrow then the problem is solved
Cheers!
