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Matthew01's avatar
Matthew01
Aspirant
Dec 24, 2016

Windows IP address conflict

I have a time warner cable modem hardwired into a Netgearrange extender  WN3000RPv3, My computer is hardwired into a second  WN3000RPv3.  I did this beacause a friend in the IT industry suggested I do so for best performance.  I see on the forums that these extenders impose a 25% penalty on "performance".  Is my settup unneccisary?  Furthermore the reason I started looking at the forums is because Windows is inundating me with a "Network Error" prompt.  It states that there is another computer on the network with the sameIP address.  My friend suggested I restart everything and this should solve the issue but it has not.  Any help would be appreciated.

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  • Your setup is a little unclear, so a few questions. 1. Do you have a router? If not, you should have one. 2. Is the second WN3000RPv3 wirelessly connecting to the first WN3000RP3? If not, what is it connecting to?
    • Matthew01's avatar
      Matthew01
      Aspirant

      Yes, my router is also my modem: from time warner.  Yes the second WN3000RPv3 is connected wirelessly to the first.

      • TheEther's avatar
        TheEther
        Guru

        It's not ideal to have a wireless extender connect to another wireless extender.  Each extender imposes a 50% speed penalty to its wireless clients.  Therefore, wireless clients connecting to the second extender will experience a 75% speed penalty.  But this rule doesn't apply to wired clients, so your computer will only see a 50% speed penalty.

         

        As to the IP address conflict, are all of your devices set up to obtain IP addresses dynamically or are any of them set up to use a specific IP address?

         

        Did you restart your modem/router?