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Router or Switch
Dear Sirs,
I recently moved into a new home and transferred my Cox service over. So the previous owners had an Gigabit Ethernet switch in the basement that fed Ethernet jacks all over the house......nice.
So yesterday the Cox tech came out and set up my service by running cable over to my house from the utility pole (previous owners had AT&T) and he installed my cable modem in the basement and fed that to the Gigabit Ethernet switch. So I installed my Wi Fi router in one of the Ethernet jacks upstairs and it started working great. However, none of the other jacks will work. I assume this has to do with limited number of IP addresses correct?
So, what do I need to do to make all of the Ethernet jacks active, get a multi-port router in the basement instead of a switch?
Appreciate any help.
Best Regards.
ChrisR
Bruce
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11 years ago
You need to subnet your wireless router off your switch. A router is higher in the food chain than a switch, so your router took control.
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Narsil
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11 years ago
How do I subnet the router?
Thanks for the help Bruce!
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Health_Edge
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11 years ago
What kind of router and switch do you have? How are things connected?
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Narsil
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11 years ago
Switch - Netgear ProSafe 8 Port Gigabit Switch
Modem - Motorola Docsis 3.0 P/N: 545100-009-00
Connect like this:
Cox Cable Service -> Motorola Modem -> Netgear Switch -> (wired throughout house) Asus Wireless Router in one of the jacks
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Health_Edge
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11 years ago
What kind of internet service do you have? Anything under Ultimate and you only get 1 IP. So if your going Modem > switch > router, then only 1 device off the switch can give a IP. So if its not your router, your router won't work.
I think it would be be better If you went Modem > Router > Switch >Jacks > Another router or access point, unless having the router next to the modem doesn't effect its wireless strength too much. You could also get a gateway instead of a modem, but im not a fan of gateways. That is probably the way it was set up with your previous ISP though.
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smtips
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11 years ago
The router should be placed before the switch. Once you do that it should be fine.
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Narsil
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So, I was able to put my old router (ASUS RT-N56U) down in my basement in front of the switch and it worked great, activated all the ethernet jacks (I checked three of them). Enable DHCP on this router and it worked great.
The problem is my new router (ASUS RT-AC68U) and getting it to work. So once I added it to one of the ethernet jacks and started the set up process it automatically detected that it's IP address was in conflict with the first router (RT-N56U) so it automatically sets it's IP address different with a different subnet. So, I tried to adjust it's IP address to make sure it's on the same subnet as the first router (I believe this is required) but when I try to change the IP address I keep getting this error message saying something like "The LAN and WAN need to have a different IP address and subnet number".
So, any idea what gives here? Maybe I should not let it automatically assign it's IP address?
Appreciate any help man.
Chris
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Health_Edge
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What are you trying to do that you need two routers? Increase wireless? Have two seperate wireless SSID? Usually you don't want a router hooked up to a router.
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smtips
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If you need more ports might wanna look at getting a switch with more ports instead of the headache of messing with two routers on the same connection, there's not a good way to do that without conflicts. Do you have a specific goal you're trying to achieve by connecting two routers on the same line?
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