Netgear D7000 & R8000 issue

stringyb92 · 11 Sep 2017 at 21:30

I have a D7000 & R8000 in my current setup. Both are transmitting wireless but with different names, and the D7000 was allocating IP Addresses via DHCP. On Sunday woke up, and the Sonos was very intermittent and kept buffering on Tuneinradio. Something its never done. Then my Mac and other devices were struggling to connect to either router if disconnected. Since then, I've moved both boxes into the same room, right next to each other and everything seems to be working okay, but the devices won't connect to each router seamlessly. It throws up an error on my iPhone that it has "no internet connection". If I assign the devices a static IP it connects and has no problems. I've since turned on my Synology diskstation to assign the IP's but this hasn't made a difference.

Whilst resetting both routers, when reconnecting them together they were causing considerable issues where, I could connect to the internet but not the management webpages of either. To do this would involve having to reset them and try it again. I've got them all working on the same network right now, but just this issue with IP's

We currently have around 30 devices that connect to the network at any one time. I don't know if its a case of having too many devices and demanding too much of the network

Just want to know if anyone has any advice so that both of these work like they use too when I had no issues! Anyone with any good tips please let me know!

Thanks

bremen1874 · 11 Sep 2017 at 22:39

Different channels but same SSID and other details is the usual way to go.

30 devices shouldn't be a problem. Presumably they aren't all actively hammering the network at the same time?

Have you scanned the environment to check you're still using sensible wireless channels?

Do you have any Powerline adapters? If you have did you set your own encryption keys?

stringyb92 · 11 Sep 2017 at 23:17

Thanks for the suggestion. I changed the SSID to the same and different channels, and I couldn't access the synology, or the R8000 web page at all. Changed it back and it all started working again

bremen1874 · 11 Sep 2017 at 23:25

Different channels is the most important thing.

What about the Powerline adapters? Some of the symptoms you describe can be caused by a cross connection with a neighbour's Powerline network.

stringyb92 · 11 Sep 2017 at 23:40

Ive not no power lines. Just Cat5 and 2x4port netgear switch whilst I repair the 24port one.

bremen1874 · 12 Sep 2017 at 00:19

I'd (temporarily) simplify things so you're only using one router and its wireless. Get that working reliably (or not) and then move on.

What's gone wrong with the 24 port switch that's fixable? I did once fix a switch that just needed some replacement capacitors, but they're normally either working or BER.