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Austen
Jan 26, 2017Aspirant
R7000 wired device no internet
Hi, I have an R7000 which has been working perfectly for some time. Yesterday, my playstation 4 had no internet (wired). Everything that is connected wirelessly has internet and the playstation ...
- Feb 01, 2017
Thanks for the replies,
It seems that suddenly my internet settings on the ps4 just stopped working.
I have it manually setup for a static ip address so i can open ports to the ps4.
I just changed the settings to automatic and it worked fine.
I fixed the static ip by setting the router to give a specific ip address to the mac address on the ps4.
Strange that it worked for years and now suddenly stopped.
I think it was to do with the subnet mask i had set to 255,255,255,0.
On the router it was 255,255,255,128. I tried that on the ps4 and all that happened was it had to think a bit longer before coming up with "internet failed".
Anyway, all is working fine now, thanks!