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Unable to Admin my new AX4200 router
So, my wifi is up. I have only one network, all my devices are run and running OK. But... I can't get to my router to do any admin. (no response from 192.168.1.1) I've tried different browsers, ...
It's had some growing pains along the way. :smileyembarrassed:
well, two things:
- I realized I hadn't been power cycling my mesh points, so I am doing that now.
- I just got (and upgraded to) new firmware (V3.2.16.22)
- and I was running fing on several devices (including a fingbox). I don't really know what was doing, but I know it scans the network and reports on things it finds. Probably benign but I figure I need to simplify to stabilize.
OK. 3 things...
I noticed yesterday that my connected devices kept changing IP addresses, in most cases devices were just all swapped around the IP range. I'd see different devices with the IP address of something else, etc... I checked the logs and all I saw were DHCP events. Lots of them.
All in all pretty alarming, plus not very easy to diagnose what's going on. Begining to think I need to return these things...
Try powering OFF all units for 30 seconds, then back on with the RBR first, then RBS lastly. Be sure all units got the update. You might want to factory reset and setup from scratch.
I've been able to have access to my units whle on v22.
Yea, I just did the power cycling you described. so far so good.
But I have to say I am pretty disappointed in the experience so far. Clearly there was (maybe still is) some riff-raff going on on my network. I found it virtually impossible to figure anything out. The logs were not very useful at all, only say one class of events and nothing else. Couldn't tell is I was only seeing the router logs and not anything from the satelites.
I'm going to sit tight for now, but I am trending to think I should cut my loses and pick a different setup (thinking either eero pro 6 or asus xt8)