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Issues with static ip on IOT device, connecting to extender and not router!
I am working on setting up some IOT NodeMCU chips that are running a web page. I ran into an issue and needed a static ip, which I programmed in and all that seems to work fine. I have reserved my ip in my router and that seems to be working, but when the chiip connected before the static ip, it connected to any ip other than the reserved one? Had the correct mac and all seems to have been setup in the router correctly. So I programmed the NodeMCU 8266 chip to "request" a static ip. My programming is working, the only issue is now the chip connects to my range extender, not the router, as I ask for it to connect to the ip and since the range extender has the same password, the chip connects up to the range extender and can't be seen by devices (computers) on the router. I am new to range extenders and wonder how can I differentiate the connection to 192.168.1.1 to be the router and not the range extender?