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Question

Networking help

by Nov 23, 2016 4:23PM PST

Hi,
I have a small home network consisting of a N66U router and 2 netgear gigbyte switches.. The issue i am having is most of the clients connect at 192.168.1.xxx which i can access the internet and my home server but I have a handful of clients that connect to a network that has a ip address of 192.168.22.xxx I can't figure out why these clients are connecting to the 192.168.22.xxx...

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That's two LANs.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 23, 2016 5:16PM PST

And troublesome. Absolutely not what I would setup.

Are you sure there is just one router? It reads as if there are 2.

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by cryomag Nov 23, 2016 10:29PM PST

Thats what it sounds like, but all I have is the n66u and the 2 switches. There is no other router in the network. At 1 point I tried setting up my old router as a repeater but I was unable to get it to work right so I took it out of the network. Also I have reset the n66u to factory defaults, and still get clients connecting to a 192.168.22.xxx addresss.

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If I were to guess
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 23, 2016 10:53PM PST

There's a router in the ISP's modem and you ran that to the switches and then added the router after a switch. That's an incorrect setup.

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No router in ISP modem.
by cryomag Nov 24, 2016 6:13AM PST

No router in the isp's modem, I use my own and it's a arris surfboard. Here is how my set up goes.

Modem>n66u router>switch>switch.

It's been frustrating because we have a lot of wireless and wired devices.

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That changes my diagnosis.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 24, 2016 9:35AM PST

The units that are connecting to 192.168.2.x are not connected to your LAN or hotspot.

Remember I'm not thinking if you did anything non-standard in the router.

How about a full model number on the ISP modem?

And thinking about this, yes I've seen that. There was an open hotspot and the devices were autoconnecting which was a mess. That is, telling Windows to only connect to specify WiFi is a little work. Varies with the version of Windows.

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