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
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