Because the Fritzbox from my provider does not have have the greatest Wi-Fi, I bought a DLINK AC1750 Wi-Fi router.
Installed the stuff and to my surprise it worked from the box.
Although after 2 days I discovered that on anything connected via Wi-Fi (and thus the DLiNK) I cannot access anything anymore connected to the Fritzbox.
I realize that it has something to do with the IP address assigned to each device. They should be in the same range. And they are not.
Setup:
Fritzbox ==> 8-port switch ===> NAS, PC, Satreceivers
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| ==> Powerline connector ==> PC and 1 receiver
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==> dLINK ac 1750 (wifi) ==> PC, Tablet, Chromecast, TV and guest PC's en tablets
My Fritzbox has DHCP enabled (range 192.168.178.1-100) and has given the Dlink an IP adress in its own range: 192.168.178.36
Now in the setup of the DLink, I discovered that its inner IP address is 192.168.0.1 and it is giving out via DHCP IP adresses in the range 192.168.0.1-254
This explains why I cannot see anything from the Fritzbox connected devices with IP-addresses in the range of 192.168.178.1-100 on devices connected via wifi.
I already tried to give the Dlink an IP-address in the range of the Fritzbox, and changed the DHCP to a range outside the Fritzbox range.
The DLink will not accept this config.
Next tried to give the Dlink an IP-address in the range of the Fritzbox, and disable the DHCP of the Dlink, Hoping that now the DHCP from the Fritzbox would assign IP addresses. Big failure. (My tablet would not connected anymore - had to assign a fixed IP address to the wifi connection on the tablet)
I am out of idea's how to resolve this. Reading on the net does not help either. They started talking about bridge mode etc, etc...
And this is really beyond my understanding.
Can somebody help how to configure this, so I can see everything from the tablet (or anything attached via wifi)
Thanks in advance
Willy