TP Link TL-ER5120 Load Balance 3 WAN

Paulgpvr

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Hi,

I'm building my first network at home/small business, so please bare with me!

Please take a look at my network here http://i63.tinypic.com/50sk6s.png

A have 3 network connections from different ISPs going into the TP Link TL-ER5120 load balance broadband router's 3 WAN ports. Screenshot of Status here http://i64.tinypic.com/5y1aw.png
The load balancer then creates a LAN which i output into a TP-Link switch.

The TP-link switch then supplies a wifi router and direct connections from workstations and printers.

The load balancing works fine increasing the download and upload speeds (compared to a single isp) but my problem is:-

If i'm connected to the wifi router in the left of the image, i will have an IP address something like 192.168.1.xxx and i cannot see the printer (right of the image) directly connected to the switch. The printer has an ip address of 192.168.0.7

It seems any device directly connected to the switch has an ip address of 192.168.0.xxx and anything from the wireless router will be 192.168.1.xxx

How can i make everything visible on one network as such? If you need any further info please ask and i can get it for you.

Thanks for any help whatsoever.

Paul
 


 
Why do you have a router behind your switch. You should run that device as a AP and everything will be on one network. Mostly your problem is that you have a NAT between the networks. You also would have issues just having 2 subnets because the simple tools for locating devices on the network assume they are on he same subnet. You would have to connect via the actual IP address.
 

Paulgpvr

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Hi Bill,

Thanks for your reply.

Why do you have a router behind your switch.
Do you mean the wifi router with lan ports on the bottom left of diagram? If so thats a Tp-Link TD-W8980 Wireless modem router that has been configured to be in "wireless router mode". This is to provide wifi access to the network for portable devices. As well as some wired connections. FYI the cable from the switch to this wireless router goes into its WAN port, not sure if that helps explain the issue.

Can this be configured in a better way? You mention run it as an AP (access point?) is that not what i've done by putting it in "wireless router mode" rather than "ADSL modem router mode"

Thanks again.
 


Link them LAN to LAN, disable DHCP, firwall and NAT on the wifi router or put it in AP mode if it has it.
 

Paulgpvr

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Link them LAN to LAN, disable DHCP, firwall and NAT on the wifi router or put it in AP mode if it has it.

Thanks Nigellivey,

I've done that so the cable from the TP-Link switch is now going into LAN1 of the wifi router (bottom left of diagram) rather than (LAN4/WAN). Disabled DHCP etc.
This seems to work so everything is now on the 192.168.0.xxx network and all devices can see each other. :bounce:

The only snag now is that the LAN4/WAN port doesnt seem to work as a normal LAN port anymore. Its a Tp-Link TD-W8980 Wireless modem router any ideas how to resolve that issue so i have LAN4 available to use?

Thanks so much for all your help.
 
I don't believe that model has an AP mode. It has to have a WAN. But, the WAN can either be Port4, or the ADSL port. Since you are not using it for DSL, try putting the router into ADSL Modem Router mode (still with DHCP and all turned off), and see if that makes Port4 part of the LAN instead of WAN.