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WNDR5400v2 wireless and wired don't talk to each other
I had a mostly-wired network with several shared devices and they've been chatting amongst themselves for several years. Yesterday I moved one Windows 10 PC to a non-wired part of the house, and used...
antinode -
I took some time to scratch beneath the surface and quickly found that basic connectivity was OK, but that Network Discovery had been turned off. Turned it back on, and things are working again. Some old problems (e.g., sharing with Linux machines) still exist, but workarounds still work around OK.
My previous thread complained that a cellphone file-sharing app ("File Transfer Pro" on a Galaxy 6) would only connect to a PC on the same router interface; i.e., 4G or 5G wireless-to-wired or 5G-to-4G wireless did not connect. I eventually gave up on that one and always connected the cellphone via a USB cable if I needed to transfer files.
Thanks for the help.
antinode -
I took some time to scratch beneath the surface and quickly found that basic connectivity was OK, but that Network Discovery had been turned off. Turned it back on, and things are working again. Some old problems (e.g., sharing with Linux machines) still exist, but workarounds still work around OK.
My previous thread complained that a cellphone file-sharing app ("File Transfer Pro" on a Galaxy 6) would only connect to a PC on the same router interface; i.e., 4G or 5G wireless-to-wired or 5G-to-4G wireless did not connect. I eventually gave up on that one and always connected the cellphone via a USB cable if I needed to transfer files.
Thanks for the help.
Reads to me like some Multicast is not passed between the LAN, the 2.4G, and the 5G radio interfaces.
The only thing that does not fit in to this suspicion is the mentioned Linux connection problems, however this information more than vague.