Modem and router have same IP address so cannot login to router
I am using Powerline AV500 adaptors to extend my wifi. This is all fine.
I have a Virgin Hub 3 upstairs and then through the Powerline adaptor to a Tenda router downstairs. I need to access the Tenda router to change it to channel 11 (so it can connect to the new thermostat!). However, the Hub and the router have the same IP address (192.168.0.1) and I can only access the settings for the Hub - my laptop will not give me the choice of connecting to the Tenda router.
Re: Modem and router have same IP address so cannot login to router
1. Maybe use the forum support for your actual device and not netgear? 2. unhook the tenda from the virgin and reboot the tenda. Then connect a device to the tenda to adjust it.
You have 2 routers running in router mode on your network. its called a double nat and causes issues.
Re: Modem and router have same IP address so cannot login to router
> I am using Powerline AV500 adaptors to extend my wifi. [...]
Actual model numbers? Connected to what? (Hint: If a device has different types of Ethernet ports, then "connected to device" is not enough detail.) What, exactly, are you "extending" with the Powerline gizmos?
> [...] a Tenda router [...]
Not a very detailed description of that device. Or how it's connected or configured.
> [...] I need to access the Tenda router to change it to channel 11 (so > it can connect to the new thermostat!). [...]
Not a very detailed description of that device, either.
Are you having problems getting your (unspecified) "the new thermostat" connected to some router or other? What led you believe that the radio channel was significant?
General advice: You might have more success if you described the actual problem which you are trying to solve, rather than asking how to implement some particular "solution" ("change it to channel 11"), which may have little or nothing to do with the actual problem (whatever it might be).
Or, in the words of the philosopher Williams, "If you don't think too good, don't think too much."
> [...] the Hub and the router have the same IP address (192.168.0.1) > [...]
Which you determined how, exactly? To a casual observer, that would seem to conflict with the previous claim that "This is all fine."
> What should I do?
My first guess would be that you should configure your (unspecified) "the Tenda router" as a wireless access point, rather than as a full-function router. With no useful information on that device, it's tough to be specific about how-to. Such a configuration would give the router-as-WAP a new/different LAN IP address (on the main-router LAN subnet), which should make it easily accessible from anyplace on your LAN. (Allowing you conveniently to do all the pointless fiddling with it which you might want to do.)
