Netgear Wireless Network Issue

pedmond

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Dec 27, 2015
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Hi All just looking for a little thoughts on this one.

I have a wireless network working from a Netgear router provided by my internet provider Virgin Media today, I have a few wireless devices connected to it and a wired connection running to my PS4 in another room. Everything fine until I attempted to open some ports to the PS4 to prevent some firewall issues, something I've done before, however this time I seem to have completely messed up and not sure where I've went wrong. There are two PS4 systems on the network and in order to set both I attempted to open ports on one and place the other system in a DMZ on the network, Basically after a few attempts the whole wireless network crashed and nothing could connect apart from one PC in the house. Using that one I tried software resets of the router and even hardware factory setting resets on the router itself.

In the end the only solution that has worked was to disconnect the ethernet cable on the router running to the PC it sits next to (not the same one it was connecting to) and running all of the house wirelessly instead of the previous set up of the PC and PS4 wired and everything else wired. It seems to be all back to normal now but I'd like to know what's happened and here and also if it will be possible to return my PC to a wired connection as each time I re-enter the wire the network crashes again. I simply dont understand why one PC could pick up the connection whilst every other device couldn't then once I removed the wired PC from the mix all was well.

I thought it would be worth noting also that a few devices attempted to connect to networkname1234 2, I've never noticed the 2 at the end before. DHCP was not enabled when I ran ipconfig/all and still is not despite the network being back to working order.

Any ideas? On tenderhooks at the moment not wanting to touch it.

Ta
 
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If you have reset the router then it is probably back to all the factory settings. So all of your devices are now looking for a network that may not exist with respect to the router. Very easy to end up with a (2) on a network name when some duplication occurs.

And also, you may have created an IP address conflict with two or more devices having the same IP address. Especially if you invoked any static IP addresses. Use all DHCP until things get straightened out.

Turn everything off except the router and one wired connection to on PC. Get the network re-established via the router and that wired PC. Reconfigure the wireless network as necessary and add wireless devices one by one via DHCP IP addressing using the wireless...

Ralston18

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If you have reset the router then it is probably back to all the factory settings. So all of your devices are now looking for a network that may not exist with respect to the router. Very easy to end up with a (2) on a network name when some duplication occurs.

And also, you may have created an IP address conflict with two or more devices having the same IP address. Especially if you invoked any static IP addresses. Use all DHCP until things get straightened out.

Turn everything off except the router and one wired connection to on PC. Get the network re-established via the router and that wired PC. Reconfigure the wireless network as necessary and add wireless devices one by one via DHCP IP addressing using the wireless network SSID, password, and associated settings.

Plan it all out beforehand and make a simple checklist to follow. Work with only one device at a time to get it working and then move on to the next device.

Use "ipconfig /all" via the command prompt to check each device to ensure that it is configured as you expect and intend.

Also wait a bit between each step. It sometimes takes devices awhile to establish a "handshake" and rejoin the network.
 
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