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R6400v2 Router has no Internet after an outage last night
We lost internet briefly last night, possibly due to a cable modem update (TBD). Our R6260 Netgear router on this modem reconnected fine, BUT our R6400v2 which serves our primary LAN cannot connect...
Our "main" router has the "inside" IP 192.168.1.1. It is plugged into the cable modem. It serves a LAN with the address 192.168.1 with DHCP and a static IP table.
The second router is an in an adjacent building, and is plugged into one of the "main" router's LAN ports via a buried cable. It has a static IP of 192.168.1.3, so is part of that LAN, and can be access from devices connected to this wifi.
This 2nd router has an "inside" IP of 10.0.0.1, and serves a wifi of 10.0.0 with DHCP and a small IP reservation table.
We have one desktop PC plugged into one of the second router's LAN port with the static IP 10.0.0.3. From here I can log into and manage either router, which is handy.
We want the wifi's to be separate, for our two smart hubs and Google Nest, etc. It is more convenient for us this way.
Clearly this is no security within/across the two LANs, but we have never had anyone but family on our wifi networks as far as we know...! We just want the smart hubs and Google to treat each building as a separate smart home, and to have decent performance.
And I do not see how an AP would benefit us particularly, but perhaps I don't fully understand APs.
ptartist wrote:
We now have the router for our smaller LAN reconfigured & plugged into the main router that is plugged into the modem. The main router provides a LAN that gets more streaming & smart house traffic.
This works best if the second router is in access point mode. Is that how you have it?
We don't care about security between the LANs, just separation for two smart homes we don't want to combine.
Separation in what way? Separate wifi networks? Separate networks fore summary devices? Separate networks for wired devices
Any network that has a single router is likely to have some "crossover" between networks. In reality, with one router you have one network with varying degrees of separation between the two routers.
The extent of that network-to-network communication depends on how the two router are configured and what you want to achieve in the way if separation.
Another option with two routers and a single Internet connection is to arrange to have a "DMZ zone" to keep them apart. Which brings us back to what you want to achieve.
I have seen advice to use three routers to best support two LANs, but that doesn't really seem necessary.No idea if that would result in better performance?
Only you knew where you read that and what it was supposed to achieve. It sounds strange.
Our "main" router has the "inside" IP 192.168.1.1. It is plugged into the cable modem. It serves a LAN with the address 192.168.1 with DHCP and a static IP table.
The second router is an in an adjacent building, and is plugged into one of the "main" router's LAN ports via a buried cable. It has a static IP of 192.168.1.3, so is part of that LAN, and can be access from devices connected to this wifi.
This 2nd router has an "inside" IP of 10.0.0.1, and serves a wifi of 10.0.0 with DHCP and a small IP reservation table.
We have one desktop PC plugged into one of the second router's LAN port with the static IP 10.0.0.3. From here I can log into and manage either router, which is handy.
We want the wifi's to be separate, for our two smart hubs and Google Nest, etc. It is more convenient for us this way.
Clearly this is no security within/across the two LANs, but we have never had anyone but family on our wifi networks as far as we know...! We just want the smart hubs and Google to treat each building as a separate smart home, and to have decent performance.
And I do not see how an AP would benefit us particularly, but perhaps I don't fully understand APs.
Is everything on the network as you'd like?
ptartist wrote:
And I do not see how an AP would benefit us particularly, but perhaps I don't fully understand APs.
These might help:
What is the difference between router mode and AP mode? - NETGEAR Support
Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support
I think we are fine now.
Our goal is to have two LANs which avoids confusion/collusion for smart home devices, hubs, etc. And we have no need to extend a single LAN, as an AP setup might be used to do.
Yes, I think we have success with our current arrangement, as long as my husband resists the urge to tweak it further... he managed to temporarily destroy it tinkering last night, but that is fixed now!!!
So we can close this discussion any time...