New netgear router

[Dogsparky]

I got a new netgear router yesterday and the other computer in the house reads the right names for the connections, including my PS4, but the other computers read network 5 and Comcast.net for the internet connections, all but the PS4 use a wire,not wireless

[Lurick]

Can they reach the internet and everything without issue?

Network # and domain name shouldn't be an issue so long as they can get out just fine.

If I remember right, Windows makes a new network # for every new connection to a different network. So it would increment if you swapped the router around as it would see it as a "new" network.

[Dogsparky]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

Can they reach the internet and everything without issue?

Network # and domain name shouldn't be an issue so long as they can get out just fine.

Yeah they can, but just weird names i am not sure about. Shouldn't they be connecting to the same internet as the other computers? Why do they have different names than the computers hooked up to the same router and internet connection?

[Lurick]

Just now, Dogsparky said:

Yeah they can, but just weird names i am not sure about. Shouldn't they be connecting to the same internet as the other computers? Why do they have different names than the computers hooked up to the same router and internet connection?

Comcast.net is the domain name, depending on if you configured the adapter settings differently it could ignore the domain name being passed down from Comcast.

[Dogsparky]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Comcast.net is the domain name, depending on if you configured the adapter settings differently it could ignore the domain name being passed down from Comcast.

So why is that computers connection called Comcast.net and the bit her network 5? There is no domain name set in the router options, i just checked it. It is blank. And doesn't explain the network 5 one as well. Is there a way to make it say the correct network names?

[Lurick]

Just now, Dogsparky said:

So why is that computers connection called Comcast.net and the bit her network 5? There is no domain name set in the router options, i just checked it. It is blank. And doesn't explain the network 5 one as well. Is there a way to make it say the correct network names?

It's getting the domain name from Comcast themselves.

If you've connected the PCs to a different number of networks, different network adapters, etc. it will show as a different network number.

So long as everything works it's nothing to worry about.

[Dogsparky]

6 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Comcast.net is the domain name, depending on if you configured the adapter settings differently it could ignore the domain name being passed down from Comcast.

I am trying to connect the network 5 computer to the 5ghz band, but i cant do that when it just connects to a random network and wont display other networks

[Lurick]

Just now, Dogsparky said:

I am trying to connect the network 5 computer to the 5ghz band, but i cant do that when it just connects to a random network and wont display other networks

Windows preferences Wired over Wireless. When you're on a wired network you can't connect to wireless without bridging the adapters.

[Dogsparky]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

It's getting the domain name from Comcast themselves.

If you've connected the PCs to a different number of networks, different network adapters, etc. it will show as a different network number.

So long as everything works it's nothing to worry about.

It doesn't give me a choice on what network to set up to, there Apparently are no other networks to connect when the other two clearly show there are two possible networks

[Dogsparky]

30 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Windows preferences Wired over Wireless. When you're on a wired network you can't connect to wireless without bridging the adapters.

so it is just the name of the wired connection, it is how windows sees the name, only one wired connection whereas there are two wireless connections so there are two different names?

 

[Lurick]

Just now, Dogsparky said:

so it is just the name of the wired connection, it is how windows sees the name, only one wired connection whereas there are two wireless connections so there are two different names?

 

Correct, different names for the different connections.

Are you trying to connect to wired and wireless on the PCs?

You mentioned only wired on everything but the PS4, just want to make sure I'm following  

[Dogsparky]

there is on;y one PC that has wireless capabilities that shows both of the netgear88 and netgear88-5g econnections al lthe others are only using wired