- Nov 24, 2013
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Hello,
I bough one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DEYDF8I/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 recently in order to extend my WiFi network. We already have one of these installed elsewhere in the building, along with a power line adapter plugged into the Router via Ethernet.
When I paired the second extender to the network it worked fine at first, however after about 5 minutes I noticed there was a conflict, where one of the two extenders would loose connectivity to the net. I noticed that whichever Extender had lost connectivity would have a Class B I.P. address, for some reason, even though each were configured "out of the box" with Class C addresses. Obviously I thought that there may be an I.P. address conflict at first, that both extenders attempting to use the one subnet mask might be at fault, and so I tried to set each power line extender to separate sub-net masks.
I kept the original extender on 192.168.1.X : 255.255.255.0
I set the new extender to 192.168.10.X : 255.255.255.0
Unfortunately when I change the I.P. address and Subnet mask settings through the bundled TP-Link utility, it doesn't seem to save the changes, and even on reboot the extender that has lost connectivity will not have regained it and will still have a Class B address of 169.254.X.X.
I've a fair bit of experience mucking about with routers etc., but these particular TP-Link extenders are new to me, and help identifying the problem would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Dave.
I bough one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00DEYDF8I/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 recently in order to extend my WiFi network. We already have one of these installed elsewhere in the building, along with a power line adapter plugged into the Router via Ethernet.
When I paired the second extender to the network it worked fine at first, however after about 5 minutes I noticed there was a conflict, where one of the two extenders would loose connectivity to the net. I noticed that whichever Extender had lost connectivity would have a Class B I.P. address, for some reason, even though each were configured "out of the box" with Class C addresses. Obviously I thought that there may be an I.P. address conflict at first, that both extenders attempting to use the one subnet mask might be at fault, and so I tried to set each power line extender to separate sub-net masks.
I kept the original extender on 192.168.1.X : 255.255.255.0
I set the new extender to 192.168.10.X : 255.255.255.0
Unfortunately when I change the I.P. address and Subnet mask settings through the bundled TP-Link utility, it doesn't seem to save the changes, and even on reboot the extender that has lost connectivity will not have regained it and will still have a Class B address of 169.254.X.X.
I've a fair bit of experience mucking about with routers etc., but these particular TP-Link extenders are new to me, and help identifying the problem would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Dave.
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