I have set up two networks at my house with two separate routers, one for personal, one for business. There is one modem, but my ISP provides me with two WAN addresses. The modem is also in bridge mode, so the built in router is not being used. The modem address is 10.0.0.1, my home network using Unifi equipment is 192.168.1.1 and my office network is the Araknis router at 192.168.0.1.
My problem is that devices from one network will jump to the other network when they reboot. I would say my networking skills are intermediate, but I can’t understand why this keeps happening. Both networks will seem solid for a few weeks or longer, then one day my wife cannot connect to the NAS on the home network because her computer jumped over to my business network.
Both networks are set up the exact same: Cat6 out of the modem to the WAN port of the router, LAN port connected to a gigabit switch, access points connected to the switch. I get full speed on both networks (300Mbps) when they are set up. When I am connected to each network via WiFi, I can confirm each one is on the right network using ipconfig. I have also confirmed each network is getting a separate WAN network by looking backwards using whatsmyip.com.
When devices get rebooted, why do they bypass the router they are connected to and grab an address from the other router? Is there any hardware way to isolate them further? Thanks for any help.
My problem is that devices from one network will jump to the other network when they reboot. I would say my networking skills are intermediate, but I can’t understand why this keeps happening. Both networks will seem solid for a few weeks or longer, then one day my wife cannot connect to the NAS on the home network because her computer jumped over to my business network.
Both networks are set up the exact same: Cat6 out of the modem to the WAN port of the router, LAN port connected to a gigabit switch, access points connected to the switch. I get full speed on both networks (300Mbps) when they are set up. When I am connected to each network via WiFi, I can confirm each one is on the right network using ipconfig. I have also confirmed each network is getting a separate WAN network by looking backwards using whatsmyip.com.
When devices get rebooted, why do they bypass the router they are connected to and grab an address from the other router? Is there any hardware way to isolate them further? Thanks for any help.