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I wanted to reserve a 'static' IP for my security camera
I'm having similar issue. I wanted to reserve a 'static' IP for my security camera. After I pick the MAC address for my camera by clicking the radio button on the left and the very last is to clic...
Took me a few days to nail down the my problem. I recently added a TP Link AP to my home network for the purpose of extending wifi coverage at the house.
The TP Link AP was acting as a DHCP serverwhich I wasn't aware of so as my main Netgear R8000 router. I never thought the TP Link was handing out IP's.
The 'Address Lease Time' had a default of 1 minute so it kept renewing IP's to the cameras. I made sure the address range on the TP Link was isolated from
the Netgear. That resolved my issue!
You only need one DHCP server on the netowrk, having two can cause problems.
If you need additional wifi, see if the TPLINK AP can work as a wifi AP only with out any DHCP services being enabled.
Took me a few days to nail down the my problem. I recently added a TP Link AP to my home network for the purpose of extending wifi coverage at the house.
The TP Link AP was acting as a DHCP serverwhich I wasn't aware of so as my main Netgear R8000 router. I never thought the TP Link was handing out IP's.
The 'Address Lease Time' had a default of 1 minute so it kept renewing IP's to the cameras. I made sure the address range on the TP Link was isolated from
the Netgear. That resolved my issue!The TP Link AP was acting as a DHCP server
What is the model number of this TP-Link device?
One strange thing I have observed with some WiFi Extenders is that they invent new MAC addresses for devices which connect to the WiFi Extender. For example, page 31 of the Netgear EX3700 WiFi extender User Manual says this:
In this case, the WiFi Extender is not acting as a DHCP server. Rather, because the device MAC address has been changed, it no longer matches the value that was defined in the router address reservation table. (This caused me quite a bit of frustration as I had carefully tested that a device got the correct IP address when connecting it directly to my WiFi system and then was very annoyed when I took it to a remote location and plugged it into the WiFi Extender and it got a totally different IP address. WTF??? - much swearing.)
It might be interesting to look at the user manual for this TP-Link Access Point.
