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[doglover]

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

                            |

                           | ==> Powerline connector ==> PC and 1 receiver

                            |

                            ==> 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

[WanWizard]

Both are NAT routers, and you want neither NAT nor routing active.

 

The solution is simple, don't connect the DLINK to the Fritz (or the switch) via the WAN port, but use a LAN port. Don't forget to disable other router services like DNS or DHCP. You really don't want two DHCP servers in your LAN.

 

This way you don't have to put your DLINK in bridge mode (if at all possible).

[Erik Slagter]

You should have bought an access point, not a router...

[doglover]

You should have bought an access point, not a router...

 

I realize that now.

 

However it is working now after following wanwizard advise.

The attached overview put me in the wrong direction.  Clicking on the "Click to repair" always set the wrong settings.

 

Despite what the figure says, I full internet access on the connected devixes

 

But with this configuration wifi is fully operational, and all my devices get a correct IP-address now, so I can access everything (provided I fill in the correct passwords and users).  It is doing what I want.  And at a much better speed.

Also only 2 devices are connected via the 2.4 GHz band.  All the rest can use the 5 GHz band which gives better performance.

 

Willy

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Edited by doglover, 4 January 2018 - 11:15.

[Erik Slagter]

It's not helpful that most people use the wording "internet router" while they mean either

- the real router to internet

- the same as above, but including a built-in wireless access point

- a wireless access point in itself

[doglover]

On the other hand,  I did not lose a lot of money bying this.

Wifi access points with the same wifi properties as this router, cost approx. the same what I paid (€75,--)

 

So no harm done.  Except some config problems.

 

Willy

Edited by doglover, 4 January 2018 - 11:51.