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I went thru the steps again- shutting everything down and swapping the cables around and restarting in order (as I have tried before) and it worked this time. everything has an IP address in the 192.168.??.?? format and I can link all devices together now! Thank for all the information.

I looked at the Deco and it has 3 ethernet slots numbered 1,2,3. There is not one that is labeled WAN as other routers I have does. The Deco is supplied by my internet provider and I can't swap it out.

Thats what I was thinking but if I switch it around I lose internet connections on some devices and I have to swap it back to get everything back connected to the internet - that what confuses me.

My home network uses 2 different kind of IP addresses. 1 is in the 198.162.1.??? format, but I also have some in this format-83.38.???.1. I think this is what is causing me to have connection between the devices with the different IP addresses. In checking I found that when they setup my...