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Old Vodafone HG659 5g Network on on same LAN? Any Workarounds?

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  • 18-04-2023 6:51am
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    Nuubie
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    Yeah I'm behind the times, but I was doing some networking lately and some stuff wasn't working to well and then tonight I discovered why after trying a new application, it told me one phone was local and the other phone was remote. It's one of those situations where you don't pay attention to IP for about 7 years.

    Anyhow, it appears the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Ethernet are both on 192.168.1.0/24 or whatever it is, I'm rusty, and it has a mask of 255.255.255.0 that cannot be changed. everything on there can connect okay. My 5GHz phones receive the IP's in the 192.168.2.* range and while their internet connection works fine, they cannot connect to the router login from this address or be on the same LAN as my computer and I cannot take advantage of the same and local option of the application I was attempting to use cause it will only activate as local in 2.4GHz.

    Any workarounds for this? I have a few things setup, it be a bit made re-configuring the whole thing.

    I think I'll try setting the LAN 192.168.2.1 but I'll probably break something lol



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    #2
    Nuubie
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Nuubie


    So turns it out the router will allow me to you any number except 192.168.2.1

    Wonder what the easiest way getting these on the same network :/



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    dam099
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭dam099


    Are you using the guest network to create a separate 5GHz SSID? Routers often isolate guest network traffic from the main network for security purposes.

    I presume you have a reason why you don't want to use a combined 2.4/5GHz SSID with band steering? If not I would enable that and switch off the guest network.



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    Nuubie
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Nuubie


    Hi, yes, I just come back to update the thread in case anyone else experiences the problem. You are correct, I was looking to add a static DNS on my phone just a few minuets ago and I accidentally switched WI-Fi without noticing and the IP's were correct and then I realised, the guest network must be isolated. I only used it cause of setting an easy password.

    That's one problem solved, I could not get port forwarding to work and neither could I get the FTP server to the WAN side, it only has LAN :/

    Anyways thank for you comment, it would solve the issue.



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