DHCP on Wireless Range Extender or not?

[Alex Atkin UK]

3 minutes ago, grangervoldemort said:

Where what was the other way round?

I was just working with a router that was .1 rather than .254, but thats entirely irrelevant to the discussion.

[grangervoldemort]

12 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

I was just working with a router that was .1 rather than .254, but thats entirely irrelevant to the discussion.

I'm still confused. Please explain

[Alex Atkin UK]

8 minutes ago, grangervoldemort said:

I'm still confused. Please explain

Some routers default to 192.168.1.1, others 192.168.1.254.  I had been writing about one on the former address so accidentally wrote as if your was, but that makes absolutely not difference to your situation.

The only relevant point is to never set a static IP address to something the DHCP server will issue.

Never set a static IP address to the same as another device.

In your case, you can use anything from .1 to .63 as those are outside the DHCP range.

Or leave DHCP Client enabled on the extender and forget about this confusion.  The only catch is your extenders IP address may change in that case, but you should be able to easily find out what it is at any given time from your routers DHCP leases list.

[grangervoldemort]

13 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Some routers default to 192.168.1.1, others 192.168.1.254.  I had been writing about one on the former address so accidentally wrote as if your was, but that makes absolutely not difference to your situation.

The only relevant point is to never set a static IP address to something the DHCP server will issue.

Never set a static IP address to the same as another device.

In your case, you can use anything from .1 to .63 as those are outside the DHCP range.

Or leave DHCP Client enabled on the extender and forget about this confusion.  The only catch is your extenders IP address may change in that case, but you should be able to easily find out what it is at any given time from your routers DHCP leases list.

The extender doesn't seem to have a DHCP Client setting. Only the switch does. I think.

 

Why does the IP have to be be 192.168.1.xxx? Why can't it be say, 192.168.0.12?

[dalekphalm]

1 hour ago, grangervoldemort said:

The extender doesn't seem to have a DHCP Client setting. Only the switch does. I think.

 

Why does the IP have to be be 192.168.1.xxx? Why can't it be say, 192.168.0.12?

It can be 0 or 1 (or technically any number between 0 and 254). You just have to make sure every device (including the router) is using the same first three numbers in the IP address.

[grangervoldemort]

29 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

It can be 0 or 1 (or technically any number between 0 and 254). You just have to make sure every device (including the router) is using the same first three numbers in the IP address.

Notice the 3rd number. Not the last.

192.168.0.xxx 

 

That is the number I am referring to.

 

So this number has to be the same as the one the router is using? Which seems to be 1?

[dalekphalm]

5 minutes ago, grangervoldemort said:

Notice the 3rd number. Not the last.

192.168.0.xxx 

 

That is the number I am referring to.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. In most consumer routers, in 192.168.x.1 is typically:

x = 0

x = 1

x = 2

 

But, the number can technically be set to any number between 0 and 254.

 

So, if it's already set to 0, that's fine. If it's already set to 1, that's also fine. So long as every device is using that same number.

 

If your router is 192.168.0.1, then make sure all your other Static IP's start with 192.168.0.xxx.

 

If your router is using 192.168.1.1, then make sure all your static IP's start with 192.168.1.xxx.

5 minutes ago, grangervoldemort said:

So this number has to be the same as the one the router is using? Which seems to be 1?

In your case, it since seems to be 1, just make sure all the rest of your static IP's start with 192.168.1.xxx (where xxx = whatever IP you assign the device).