I am trying to add a GW mesh to my existing setup. I have one repeater which isn't onerous, but we're getting the basement finished out so I thought now I'd like to have my main router in the basement (where the FIOS comes in) and a GW mesh node (on hard wire) on each level. Each room is wired with CAT 5e - so from what I can tell, this is a physically sound setup.
The problem is that if the GW has a WAN address that's different than the LAN address, wifi devices are on a different subnet than wired devices - and many don't like that... My GW defaults to 192.168.68.x. while my internal LAN (wired and DHCP leases) is on 192.168.1.X subnet. I have quite a few devices (5 computers, NAS, 3 Tivos, 2 printers, etc) all on the internal LAN with static IPs.
With the GW, changing the LAN IP address is brutal (so far for me). With 2 hours online chat with a Google engineer, I was still unable to do it. I want my wired network supported by my ISP router. That router leaves 192.168.1.1 - 1.50 for wired devices. It leases 55-100 for wifi. I wanted my GW with a WAN IP of 192.168.1.51. Then it leases 101-250 for DHCP. Getting that to work by giving a LAN IP that's the same (or on the same subnet) as the WAN IP appears to be impossible. No real reason why it should be IMO... It clearly offers the ability to change it (menu pages). The app looks to offer this... It keeps giving me an error when I try to save saying, "failed, you need to be connected to the internet." I've tried on my neighbor's wifi, over LTE and connected to the Google Wifi. The Google tech was unable to figure out why? He had me update the GW with the latest firmware and reset. Still no love.
My question is a) has anyone done this successfully? b) am I just thinking about this wrong and it's insane to try and and keep all my devices on the same subnet (so they can actually communicate effectively)? c) should the GW app allow this? The tech thought perhaps my FIOS wasn't allowing it for some reason (he thought maybe "big" Verizon as the FIOS router looked to be configured properly).
Any thoughts from experts???? Thanks in advance.
The problem is that if the GW has a WAN address that's different than the LAN address, wifi devices are on a different subnet than wired devices - and many don't like that... My GW defaults to 192.168.68.x. while my internal LAN (wired and DHCP leases) is on 192.168.1.X subnet. I have quite a few devices (5 computers, NAS, 3 Tivos, 2 printers, etc) all on the internal LAN with static IPs.
With the GW, changing the LAN IP address is brutal (so far for me). With 2 hours online chat with a Google engineer, I was still unable to do it. I want my wired network supported by my ISP router. That router leaves 192.168.1.1 - 1.50 for wired devices. It leases 55-100 for wifi. I wanted my GW with a WAN IP of 192.168.1.51. Then it leases 101-250 for DHCP. Getting that to work by giving a LAN IP that's the same (or on the same subnet) as the WAN IP appears to be impossible. No real reason why it should be IMO... It clearly offers the ability to change it (menu pages). The app looks to offer this... It keeps giving me an error when I try to save saying, "failed, you need to be connected to the internet." I've tried on my neighbor's wifi, over LTE and connected to the Google Wifi. The Google tech was unable to figure out why? He had me update the GW with the latest firmware and reset. Still no love.
My question is a) has anyone done this successfully? b) am I just thinking about this wrong and it's insane to try and and keep all my devices on the same subnet (so they can actually communicate effectively)? c) should the GW app allow this? The tech thought perhaps my FIOS wasn't allowing it for some reason (he thought maybe "big" Verizon as the FIOS router looked to be configured properly).
Any thoughts from experts???? Thanks in advance.