Help with Home Network: Wifi, Cat5 & Signal Boosters

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Hi All,

Recently overhauled my home network so I can have the downstairs TV and my PC Hardwired. I also purchased a wifi signal booster as the Wifi from the TalkTalk box was terrible.

The problem I have now is getting them all to talk with each other. The TV and PC are wired into the Router via Giga Switches and all my other devices: Bose Soundtouch, Printer, Work Laptop, Phone/Tablets connect through my wifi booster.

For example I try and print off a document, all the wireless devices work absolutely fine however the PC will not find the printer.

Another example is after recently upgrading the PC and adding some nice RGB I am unable to control the LED's with my phone as the PC is not seen on the same network.

Never had issues in the past, however I have never used boosters before and I think this may be where I have gone wrong somewhere. The booster is seen as a seperate wifi device when you search, exactly the same as the router name just with 'plus' at the end.

I am sure it is a very simple fix, but scratching my head a little on this one!
 
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The problem is 'wireless signal booster' describes what it does, not what it is.

There a few different types of device that would fall into that category. We could make an educated guess but that's likely to just waste everyone's time and effort.
 
bremen1874 said:
The problem is 'wireless signal booster' describes what it does, not what it is.

There a few different types of device that would fall into that category. We could make an educated guess but that's likely to just waste everyone's time and effort.
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The model is VICTONY UK402.

I wonder if I have purchased the wrong type of device for what I was looking to achieve?
 
It should work for what you want.

How is it connecting back to the router (wired/wireless)?

Did you have to choose an operating mode during the setup, and if so what did you select?

Check that the devices connected directly to the router are using the same IPv4 address range as those connected to the extender. They'll have IPv4 addresses something like 192.168.1.66 and the first three parts need to match.
 
bremen1874 said:
It should work for what you want.

How is it connecting back to the router (wired/wireless)?

Did you have to choose an operating mode during the setup, and if so what did you select?

Check that the devices connected directly to the router are using the same IPv4 address range as those connected to the extender. They'll have IPv4 addresses something like 192.168.1.66 and the first three parts need to match.
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assuming a /24 subnet mask ;)
but lets not go down that route just yet :p
 
Checking the subnets seems like a basic step and would only take a few seconds. If the OP has managed to configure things so devices connected to the repeater are on their own subnet then you'd get exactly the symptoms described.
 
bremen1874 said:
It should work for what you want.

How is it connecting back to the router (wired/wireless)?

Did you have to choose an operating mode during the setup, and if so what did you select?

Check that the devices connected directly to the router are using the same IPv4 address range as those connected to the extender. They'll have IPv4 addresses something like 192.168.1.66 and the first three parts need to match.
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Thanks.

The repeater/extender is connected via wireless...can't remember the options.

PC is 192.168.1. & all others are 192.168.10. as this is the ip of the extender.
 
You appear to have the extender creating its own separate network.

I'd have expected the extender to be configured with a management address in the 192.168.1.n range (quite possibly manually assigned) to match the primary router and its DHCP server disabled. All of the devices would then get their IPs from the primary router and they'll all be happy to talk to each other.

A quick search didn't find an online manual for that model so I can't be sure.
 
bremen1874 said:
You appear to have the extender creating its own separate network.

I'd have expected the extender to be configured with a management address in the 192.168.1.n range (quite possibly manually assigned) to match the primary router and its DHCP server disabled. All of the devices would then get their IPs from the primary router and they'll all be happy to talk to each other.

A quick search didn't find an online manual for that model so I can't be sure.
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To be honest there isn't much in the way of options. Basically you login, select the wifi you want to extend and then it does eveything from there.

I think I may be best going and getting a Netgear or something, at least the options will be a bit more advanced.

Thanks for your help.
 
On the interface for the extender is there an option to turn it to be a DHCP client rather than server?
 
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