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What does your setup look like and what are you using it for?
Are you using the R7000 in either AP or bridge mode?
Are you talking about the default gateway setting on the router or the mixer? In any case, it should usually point to whatever is functioning as a router. But in the off chance that you don't have a router or don't want traffic from the mixer to go off of the subnet, then the default gateway still needs to be set to something in side the subnet. It can be a non-existent device (e.g. 192.168.55.254, assuming that there is nothing with that address).
I'm using the R7000 and planning to use the R7800 in a stand alone LAN connecting the digital mixer
via wifi to my Ipads.
The default gateway is what is on the mixer.
I spoke with a couple of people this morning at Netgear support and the closest work around was to set up an IP reservation.
It involved setting the mixer back to DHCP, letting the router find it and assign an address, going to the IP reservation menu, changing the DHCP assigned IP to the mixers needed static IP, resetting the mixer back to static mode, narrowing the DHCP range back down.
That seems to work now.
Needless to say this wireless network system has to work everytime it's set up at a new location when running sound via Ipad. I operate only the 5g band, at most maybe I'll need to change the router to a different operating channel for a solid connection with the R7000. I was hoping for even better performance with the R7800, maybe the R7800 has a static IP set up issue.
I also tried downgrading the R7800 firmware back down one revsion, I updated it as soon as I unpacked it. The firmware downgrade did not change anything so upgraded it again to the current version.
Any IP address I try to set up in the adavanced static route configuration menu comes back with a error message 'Invalid destinstion IP address" I also tried various gateway address varations.
If you need your mixer to be reachable at a specific address, then I suggest you set it to use DHCP and then set up an address reservation on the router to assign the correct address. DHCP will take care of setting the default gateway for you.
Now, you also mentioned that you are trying to set up a static route. What are you trying to do with that?
If you need your mixer to be reachable at a specific address, then I suggest you set it to use DHCP and then set up an address reservation on the router to assign the correct address. DHCP will take care of setting the default gateway for you.
Now, you also mentioned that you are trying to set up a static route. What are you trying to do with that?
With these digital mixers controlled with an iPad the general thought is that they (the iPad app) stays connected to the mixer better with a static IP route between the mixer and the rotuer. I can say there is something to it.
Can you provide the specifics of the static route? Are you entering a static route for 192.168.55.32/255.255.255.255? What gateway address are you using? Itself (192.168.55.32)?
I can think of no reason where a static route will help here. Maybe someone theorized that it will keep the router's ARP cache populated, but that hardly seems like a good reason. Static routes are usually used to program the router to reach a remote network. The router obviously knows about its own subnet, and your router is in a standalone network, so any static routes would serve no purpose. But I am curious if you know the specific behind how it keeps the iPad better connected to the mixer.
