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Replaced Nighthawk with Nighthawk. Now devices can't see each other.
I recently replaced an older Nighthawk router with a new R7800. I have updated the firmware and performed a factory reset. I was hoping that it would be relatively plug-and-play to remove the old o...
Thank you all for the help. I finally got it all working. It appears it was a combination of things. I did have some static IPs that needed changed. I also re-booted everything again, in the right order. (Not sure if this helped, but maybe the second time was the charm.)
For those of you who took the time to offer constructive help, thank you so much.
different MAC address, it's now untrusted by Windows and is treated as a new 'public' network. Same applies if you swap in a new wireless card in a desktop or laptop.
You need to switch it to a Public Network AND turn on Network Discovery and Filesharing on for it, on every Windows device you have connected.
Sorry,
I said
"You need to switch it to a Public Network"
should have read
"You need to switch it to a Private Network"
Dan32 wrote:
Sorry,
I said
"You need to switch it to a Public Network"
should have read
"You need to switch it to a Private Network"
Thanks. That's what I thought. Hence my question.
Good to have the Mac address thrown into the mix. That may also influence the modem<>router link and need to reboot everything in the right order..
Thank you all for the help. I finally got it all working. It appears it was a combination of things. I did have some static IPs that needed changed. I also re-booted everything again, in the right order. (Not sure if this helped, but maybe the second time was the charm.)
For those of you who took the time to offer constructive help, thank you so much.
POS-Guy wrote:
Thank you all for the help. I finally got it all working. It appears it was a combination of things. I did have some static IPs that needed changed. I also re-booted everything again, in the right order. (Not sure if this helped, but maybe the second time was the charm.)
Excellent news. Your network didn't seem to be wildly complicated, but it does not take much to confuse things.
Before you do anything else, backup the configuration of your router. You never know when you might need it.
> different MAC address, it's now untrusted by Windows and is treated as
> a new 'public' network. [...]A good point, but, although I'd expect that to affect Windows file
sharing, I would not expect it to cause a "ping" failure.> [...] I did have some static IP [addresse]s that needed [to be]
changed. [...]_You_ did, or some of your _devices_ did? Any of those involved in the
observed problems?Terminology: A "static" address is configured on the device itself.
What you configure on a (DHCP server on a) router is a reserved dynamic
address, not a static address. Either one should fix the address of a
device, but some implications are different, so it helps to know which
you mean.> For those of you who took the time to offer constructive help, thank
> you so much.
You must mean me.> What are the IP addresses of these gizmos?
> IP address before and after the Great Change?
You're welcome.
