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Hardwire the EX7000 instead of wirelessly connecting to the router?
I’m going to try my best to explain my current situation as best as possible since I’m not entirely tech savvy or literate. My current situation is that there are devices that need to be hardwired but the devices are located in separate rooms. One device in my room and one in my brother’s. Now I know that I can use the EX7000 to wirelessly connect to my router and just use the Ethernet ports but doing that cuts down on download speeds. So I was wondering if I can use the Ethernet port in my room and plug the extender into that so I won’t have to wirelessly connect to the router? The current set up is that we have Frontier FiOS and the ONT box is located in our garage. Not sure what that means but the employee from BestBuy said it acts as the modem so that all the Ethernet ports our house can support a router without the need of an actual modem. So currently, all we currently have the Nighthawk X6 plugged into the Ethernet port in my brother’s room and is producing a Wifi signal with internet. We now both have desktops that have no Wifi adapters. So in order to use the internet on our computer we need to be wired. We used to share a room so it was never a problem since the router was in our room but now that we have our own rooms, he kept the router while I have no possible way of accessing internet via wired connection. Since we both game, we prefer a wired connection overall for the best performance. Hence the reason why we never purchased a Wifi adapter for our PC. While trying to look up a solution for my problem, I was constantly seeing answers like using the EX7000 as an access point. However, instructions say to plug it in to a router, which defeats my purpose of buying the extender in the first place since the extender would need to be located in my brother’s room. So long story short, can I hardwire the EX7000 using the Ethernet port in my room so that it can provide internet to my devices that need to be hardwired into the extender?
Trying to set up DG834N router as wireless access point for an ethernet printer across Virgin WiFi.
Hello all. I've spent the last few days trawling the advice and instructions given on the web and attempting to complete this task, with much unplugging, replugging and typing of ip addresses. It seems there are lots of tutorials to set this system up with the 2nd router/access point finally being connected via ethernet to the main router but I can't do that at present and I want to know if the 2nd router/access point can be set up wirelessly? Firstly I'm Mac based OS 10.11 with a Virgin SuperHub2 as my main router and here's what i'm trying to do. I have an old DG834N router. My iMac is in my basement and my virgin router is in the room above. The iMac networking is via wifi and works fine across the dual bands. I don't have wired cabling down into my basement & I suspect the electrical ring is seperate to that above ground and therefore powerlines may not work. I recently acquired a ethernet printer (HP officejet 4500 G510g). I want to set up the DG834N as a wireless access point/repeater/bridge in order to connect the ethernet printer and then access this via the iMac and as a networked printer? I've been into the DG834N and done a factory reset (a few times), updated the firmware, set the LAN ip details to match my main virgin router SSID, WPA2, Password, Channel, disabled DCHP and selected a WDS system, most times as a wireless repeater. The furthest I have got is setting up all these details and then attempting to find the printer on the network on my iMac. I presume I need to create a second wifi setting in my network settings with a static ip address and subnet to match the DG834N settings. On occasion the iMac has seen the printer but when I try to install the printer it can't because of network issues as the second static ip address has seemingly 'knocked out' or conflicted with the original 2.4ghz wifi. When I try and seperate the wifi details it changes both at the same time i.e if I try to set the main wifi to 5G it changes the printer wifi to 5G too and the router/printer will only use 2.4g. I've tried to set up a seperate location in my network setting but it still behaves the same way. Also I get frequent, 'another device is using this ip address' messages. I have also re-booted my main router a few times and slowly restarted each device one by one. Oh and I've also connected the printer directly to the iMac to install it in a hope that this would facilitate things if I solved the network problems. Unfortunately I cannot leave the printer directly connected to the iMac permanently as there's not enough space, cabling, power etc. I realise there's a lot of different stumbling blocks (Gotcha's?) in this setup but I'd appreciate any help you can give. ThanksEX6400 problems with connectivity and throughput
I've recently installed an EX6400 into my home network for both extending my wifi range and the ethernet connection to an older Samsung SmartTV without a wireless connection. My main router is an Xfinity Arris TG1682G operating in both 2.4 and 5GHz ranges and separated by different SSID's at the main router. I am having a twofold problem. First, my Google ChromeCast attached to the TV will not connect to either the 2.4 or 5G extended networks when I turn the TV on. However, if I turn the extender off and then on again, the ChromeCast is able to find and connect to the router. At the same time, the ethernet connection to the TV stays live and has no connectivity issues when the set is turned on. Secondly, all of my other devices will give an "Internet not available" message until the extender is power cycled, then all is well until the connections go dormant, then I have to go through the power down cycle again (if I'm away for an hour or more). Now the Arris TG1682G does not see the EX6400 as an Extender but I have set it up as a static IP within the modem domain. All firmware is up to date. I am ready just to return it and go with an entirely different set-up, either MoCA or powerline so this my last ditch effort.
LAN Mac Address Reservation with Ex6200
Hi All, Hoping someone can assist me with something im trying to do. On the my DGND4000 Router i have a MAC Address Reservation for a machine in my lounge that is CAT6 cabled to an EX6200 Rang Extender. On the DGND4000 i see 192.168.0.13 as the DHCP assinged address to my machine even though i have a MAC Address reservation to dish out 192.168.0.5 How does the EX6200 indentify my machines MAC address to the router as i see a physical and virtual address in the configuration web gui and adding any of these 2 address`s makes no difference to the DHCP assignment. I`ve rebooted the router (DGND4000) and the machine itself and neither are getting the reserved address. I`ve confirmed and triple confirmed the MAC address and its certainly correct. The address reservation worked fine before i installed the EX6200 last night as i have recently moved house and didnt see the need to re-cable the lounge room to the router in the study since im not pushing gigabit traffic to the media center. Any ideas? See screenshots at this link https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=FE4EBCE3530A4FB9!187246&authkey=!AB_31xfnE70Lp6g&ithint=folder%2cjpg Regards Danny