DennisFreud
New Around Here
So yes, I have a fibre-router (in Spain, good service, 600MBit nominal and I will refer to this always as the fibre-router) and I have connected two chains of switches (distances between them are some 20-40 Meters) to two of the ports. Network is set to 192.168.172.x , 254 reserved for lan, only one for wifi but wifi disabled in the fiber-router. DHCP on.
Two chains means I have the fiber router located in the middle of the house and go from router to switch to switch to... from one port in one direction and the same from a second port in the other direction.
Each switch then feeds between 2 and 7 standard wifi routers (TP-Link in factory settings) plugged in to WAN port and so each apartment has its "own" router, password and can be client reset without influence on my setup.
Works like a charm EXCEPT, every once in a while somewhere near the end of the longer of the two legs the routers in the rooms don't get internet access anymore and I need to kind of reset some part of the chain but never seemingly the same parts. Means, I need to unplug some routers, reset some switches and the the error disappears.
Now my question, Is there a better setup?
Is there an Analysis tool (hardware, can be bought...)?
Could it be just sloppy cabling (I did all the cabling myself (manually made cables (CAT6))
Any help (not too technical please) appreciated.
Thanks
Dennis (from sunny Tenerife Island)
Two chains means I have the fiber router located in the middle of the house and go from router to switch to switch to... from one port in one direction and the same from a second port in the other direction.
Each switch then feeds between 2 and 7 standard wifi routers (TP-Link in factory settings) plugged in to WAN port and so each apartment has its "own" router, password and can be client reset without influence on my setup.
Works like a charm EXCEPT, every once in a while somewhere near the end of the longer of the two legs the routers in the rooms don't get internet access anymore and I need to kind of reset some part of the chain but never seemingly the same parts. Means, I need to unplug some routers, reset some switches and the the error disappears.
Now my question, Is there a better setup?
Is there an Analysis tool (hardware, can be bought...)?
Could it be just sloppy cabling (I did all the cabling myself (manually made cables (CAT6))
Any help (not too technical please) appreciated.
Thanks
Dennis (from sunny Tenerife Island)