Mesh Network added

[chrissi-b]

Hi, I am new to mesh networks.
I put one in to boost my wifi into the garden, but although this has been successful, I now find that the Mesh Network has a different IP range, so that any device which connects onto the mesh wifi, cannot see the printer on the original network.

I used an APP to identify the Mesh IP addresses, and then reset my printer to that range, but then my PC's , who remain on the original range do not now connect.
My unseterstanding is that a network device with an IP address with a different IP address, which is not on the same network, has to be routed. Not sure if a mesh device is capable of this.

Any suggestions how this Mesh is supposed to work. Want all devices talking to each other.
regards
Chris

 

[chrissi-b]

sorry but there doesn't seem to be any front end to the mesh, just plug in and go, and I think this is a problem, as DHCP is providing my normal private addresses from muy broadband router 19.168.1.x, and from the mesh, getting 192.168.5.x range. But I can't find any way of interrogating the mesh, to give them the same range.
The router I can get onto but if the mesh doesn't have a route to the other network, I can only get the printer to talk to devices on the mesh range, if I change its IP address to a .5.x address, and then this locks out the .1x addresses.

 

[chrissi-b]

I would have expected the same. I didn't expect to get a separate IP range.
I aquired the mesh second hand, but I will try and get a type and model.