Acer Wave 7 - changing gateway IP crashes it?

JernejB
JernejB Member Posts: 3 New User
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Hello!

I can't find any useful information about my problem so I will try here. I'd like to use Wave 7 as an access point, connected with cable to primary modem/router (from my internet provider).

Because of preexisting settings in our home network I need to change IP of Wave 7 router to be 192.168.1.x (instead of factory default 192.168.76.1). When I do this in LAN settings, Wave 7 looses connection to internet and also I loose access to it's dashboard (none of IPs work). On the other hand, other devices connected to it's wireless network work normaly (printers etc).

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you for any help!

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,843 Trailblazer
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    You are doing something wrong. :) Your Wave 7 has an inside and outside address range. In your case you want to have your regular home network on the 'outside' and your WiFi mesh system (or just plain WiFi if you are only using one Wave) on the 'inside'. You can have the same address range on the inside and outside, they have to be different. So, if your normal system is on 192.168.1.x then the WAN port on your Wave needs to get assigned a number like 192.168.1.53, and the Wave needs to go ahead an assign WiFi addresses on it's normal 192.168.76.x range. Things will work like that… The devices with 192.168.76.x addresses will use 192.168.76.1 as their default gateway, which will then route packets to 192.168.1.1 to get to the main router, where they are routed out to the internet.

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,843 Trailblazer
    Answer ✓

    You are doing something wrong. :) Your Wave 7 has an inside and outside address range. In your case you want to have your regular home network on the 'outside' and your WiFi mesh system (or just plain WiFi if you are only using one Wave) on the 'inside'. You can have the same address range on the inside and outside, they have to be different. So, if your normal system is on 192.168.1.x then the WAN port on your Wave needs to get assigned a number like 192.168.1.53, and the Wave needs to go ahead an assign WiFi addresses on it's normal 192.168.76.x range. Things will work like that… The devices with 192.168.76.x addresses will use 192.168.76.1 as their default gateway, which will then route packets to 192.168.1.1 to get to the main router, where they are routed out to the internet.

    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.
  • JernejB
    JernejB Member Posts: 3 New User

    Thanks! So I will have to reconfigure all of wifi devices .. :/ I tried to avoid this as it wasn't an issue with an old router on dd-wrt ..

    Thanks again!

  • JernejB
    JernejB Member Posts: 3 New User

    Update: I changed IPs/subnet numbers of wi-fi devices to match Wave's 7 default, but then the printer was not accessible for computers connected to primary modem/router. There were few ways to solve this, one of them was to put secondary router to same subnet and make it AP (disabling DHCP, changing IP - as I was trying to do before, not successfully). Only that there was important detail I missed previously - cable connection to primary router shouldn't be through WAN port but instead LAN port! Now it works! Except I cannot see the dasboard and the Wave 7 is clearly unhappy glowing red :) But it's OK for me - for now!

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