Ip Address for Access Point on Virgin Media

Dinsey · 13 Aug 2016 at 21:41

I have VM broadband and am running a Meraki MR12 Access point.

I need to check that I am running the correct config with my meraki. As the Meraki is not giving me the same perfromance that i get from the Virgin Media router.

I have the Virgin modem / router ruining in dchp mode with a dchp reservation for 192.168.0.18 (this is the meraki acesss point).

Network cable runs from the network port on the virgin router to a switich then to the access point.

I have a static ip assigned in the meraki config:

IP: 192.168.0.18

VLAN: blank

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

Gateway 192.168.0.1

Primary DNS 192.168.0.1

Secondary DNS: blank

The ssd's in meraki are:

NAT mode: Use Meraki DHCP
Clients receive IP addresses in an isolated 10.0.0.0/8 network. Clients cannot communicate with each other, but they may communicate with devices on the wired LAN if the SSID firewall settings permit

Is this all okay or should i be running in bridge mode?

bremen1874 · 13 Aug 2016 at 23:55

AFAIK the MR12 is a 2x2 2.4GHz only device (i.e. nothing special). In theory at least the more recent models of Superhub have better wireless.

Dinsey · 14 Aug 2016 at 01:17

Thanks, just checked it's a MR18, is this better?

bremen1874 · 14 Aug 2016 at 01:37

Dual band but still only 2x2 + 2x2 (300Mbps + 300Mbps).

Not a direct comparison but for example the now getting quite old Asus RT-N66U is, on paper at least, more capable on both bands.

You don't say what model of Superhub you have, but if it's modern enough it could have wireless AC.

From an generic point-of-view your IP config shouldn't matter (quite prepared to be corrected by someone with hands-on experience).

If you're setting a DHCP reservation I'd have left the AP to pick-up its IP via DHCP. Setting a static IP isn't going matter, and you still avoid getting an unexpected IP clash in the future.

Whether it's better to set a different subnet for the wireless clients I don't know. It seems a bit unnecessary for a home network, but shouldn't impact the throughput anyway.

Caged · 14 Aug 2016 at 11:55

Can you put some numbers on this "not the same performance" complaint? And whether that is LAN -> LAN or WAN -> LAN performance?

the-evaluator · 15 Aug 2016 at 09:05

I wasn't at all impressed with the MR18 so I binned them off.

I'd recommend using bridge mode just so all the wired and wireless clients on your network can communicate with each other but you won't see any performance improvement switching from NAT.