question for the network gurus

Soundguy · Dec 26, 2014

Well, I'm all set now, have my phone blue toothed to my big jambox turned low with a soothing play list, and browsing the web on my surface. Hand digital thermometer, gingerale, horse pills, some stuff with codien in it.. tired but can't sleep... I assume my next dose of codien might change that...... t- 6 hours and counting...

Fever at highest point was 101.7. So, not lethal, but not fun either.

Time for a pretzle snack!

MossRoad · Dec 26, 2014

Soundguy said:
...my big jambox turned low...
....soothing play list...
....gingerale, horse pills, some stuff with codien in it.....
....Time for a pretzle snack!....

Sounds like college.... :laughing:

Soundguy · Dec 26, 2014

LMAO! Hack wheeze...

MossRoad · Dec 26, 2014

Hope you feel better soon.

kco · Dec 30, 2014

I just got back from the site where I see similar problems with a range extender or access point. The site has several wireless access points and they again gave inconsistent but mainly non-functioning connections.

I looked at my Android tablet wireless settings (while set for DHCP) and saw it had given me 192.168.0.90 with gateway and DNS server as 192.168.0.4. I went to the Android Advanced wireless setting as mentioned and changed the setting to Static, putting in my address as 192.168.0.90 and the gateway and DNS server as 192.168.0.1. It worked flawlessly the several times I used the tablet with the changed settings.

A few others had a similar problem and we solved it the same way. I did not investigate further, but it seems the multiple access points may be using their own IP addresses for the main router and DHCP server addresses when they give out DHCP addresses to clients.

One strange thing with one person's Windows laptop(only one being used, the rest were Android phones) was that it would show it connected successfully to the wireless network but it had not received an IP address from the DHCP server. We worked around it by guessing that 192.168.0.123 would be a free address and entering(after changing from DHCP to Static for the IP settings) 192.168.0.1 for the gateway and DHCP server. It then worked fine.

MossRoad · Dec 30, 2014

Yeah, multiple DHCP servers in a house could cause some problems when roaming around hitting them back and forth. But it goes back to 8 or 9 other devices working and one not working. One would think the extender would do just that; extend, and not provide DHCP that is different from the main network. Only one way to check.... look at the IP info on the device that isn't working.

/pine · Dec 30, 2014

MossRoad said:
Yeah, multiple DHCP servers in a house could cause some problems when roaming around hitting them back and forth. But it goes back to 8 or 9 other devices working and one not working. One would think the extender would do just that; extend, and not provide DHCP that is different from the main network. Only one way to check.... look at the IP info on the device that isn't working.

Yup...a lot of users don't realize that their modems are actually modem/routers (with a DHCP server)...and then they connect a wireless router and you have two DHCP servers running...

kco · Dec 30, 2014

Yes, a good place to start is to turn off the DHCP server on the range extender(if possible).

I like to assign fixed IP's for all my devices in my home network. I reserve the first 100 addresses for our devices (am just using 12 of them) and let the DHCP server on the main router assign 101 or above to visitors. I have an earlier 2nd wireless router that serves as an access point. It is connected to the main network with a cable via one of its ethernet ports, so it does no actual routing. I disabled the DHCP server on it so the main router handles all DHCP.

MossRoad · Dec 31, 2014

I've always been a fan of fixed IP addresses until the advent of WIFI and the liberal use of it in the business setting for portable devices. When everything was cabled to the wall, no one was going to move it around very often, and it was easy to maintain a list of what was where. Now.... forget about it.