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stadeli
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Nov 08, 2018
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Access a camera outside my router's IP range

Hi. We installed a new Wifi Router Netgear Nighthawk R7000 in our office. This gave us a new IP Range 10.0.0.x for our internal setup, so I went through changing hosts file, printer IP addresses al...
  • antinode's avatar
    Nov 08, 2018

    > We installed a new Wifi Router Netgear Nighthawk R7000 in our office.

       Why?  Better wireless coverage, or some other reason?

    > This gave us a new IP Range 10.0.0.x for our internal setup, so I went
    > through changing hosts file, printer IP addresses all over the place.

       Probably the wrong approach.

    > Our setup is Modem > Nighthawk > big switch > [...]

       What is "Modem"?  If it's actually a modem+router (which seems
    likely, if the R7000 chose "a new IP Range 10.0.0.x for our internal
    setup") then you might have saved some effort and difficulty by
    configuring the R7000 as a wireless access point.  Cascading multiple
    routers can cause multiple problems, such as this one.

       Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
    for Documentation.  Get the User Manual.  Look for "Use the Router as a
    Wireless Access Point".  That should put everything onto one big
    (192.168.1.*) LAN, as before.

    > I read that you cannot simply access a device outside the router's ip
    > range [...]

       Where, exactly, did you read what, exactly?

       If you insist on having two routers (hence two subnets), then there
    are ways (not very far from "simply") to make that work.  For example:

          https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1644757
          https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1558939

    But configuring the R7000 as a WAP (and reverting all your IP address
    changes) might be a better approach.

    > [...] I think that IP is set on the camera itself.

       If so, and if you want to use it on some other subnet, then you'd
    need to reconfigure the camera.  If it's simply connecting to the old
    "Modem[+router?]", and getting its address from (the DHCP server on)
    that router, then you may or may not need to fiddle with it.

    > [...] I run out of ideas!

       Not soon enough?