Recent content by wistar38

Final report, with 2 new Asus routers in place: 1 of the old routers was intermittently failing (after 12 years, eligible for Medicare), some of the networking failure to see computers and drives due to BitDefender firewall enhancements (blocking) possibly complicated by having different...

Thank you all for suggestions in excellent detail. I so appreciate your time and thought. I did check firmware, did hard re-sets, entered everything manually, have an Ethernet cable intact running directly and intact between the 2 routers. I checked AP mode on R2 several times. I checked LAN vs...

I have my Space Cadet uniform ready to put on as soon as the routers appear later today.

Thank you. I had done all of this, over the course of a long day. In retrospect, the network had become a bit wonky many months before I had brought in the new Win 11 desktop. The peculiar sharing issue with the new box and the ThinkPad had opened up a new problem, seemingly software and...

Thank you. Yes, I had tried all of those and variations as well, over a frustrating day of trials and tribulations. No improvements seen, unfortunately. While old tech can work with new tech, I've seen that they don't always play well together. I am a fan of upgrading pieces and parts in...

Thanks to both of you for the help. It's clearly time to move on, as I just did with a new super-powered desktop (Puget Systems silent PC) to handle Lightroom with its incredibly enhanced AI tools built in that require a real computer. So, on to a real (or 2) WiFi 7 system, probably Asus...

Firmware is up-to-date on both, checked, 3.0.0.4.382_52745-g55be4f1 Oh heavens, 2012, a bit old, I'd not realized. Maybe time to move both to the present. I have moved PC2 (Thinkpad X1 Gen10) from R1 over to R2 where I also use it....and had been seeing problems there. It is fine on R1, apart...

A seemingly unrelated problem that was escalated to (highest) Level 3 support at MS is for the desktop's roots C and D not sharing while subfolders are shareable....to laptop on Router 1. MS had resolved the issue this past week after multiple interventions, now problem is back. I will contact...

Yes and Yes. arp -a yields IPs from both sides for the routers and the PC at the other end. No MAC conflicts.

Yes, have checked Router 2 many times and even re-set it from default everything to AP Mode. All on the same subnet. It is mystifying, frustrating.

For ASUS RT-AC66U (2 routers, up-to-date firmware): Router 1 (wireless router connected to cable modem) with Ethernet connection to Router 2 in AP mode 75 feet away. PC on Router 1 cannot ping IP for PC on Router 2. PC on Router 2 can ping IP for PC on Router 1. PC to PC pings fine on Router 1...