Hi. First-time poster after being silent on the forum for quite some time. Apologies for my first post being a cheeky one asking for help.
I think I've inadvertently created a loop in my home network and I'm not sure how to fix it.
I have an RT-AC68U as primary wireless router (connected to a Zyxel operating in modem-only mode). The wifi signal from the AC68U is a bit low at one side of the house, so as I have several powerline adapters (develo dLAN 1200+ models) around the house I used the wifi function in one of these to create a new wifi zone, and another plugged into the AC68U. I gave adapter at the far side of the house the same wireless network name and passwords as the Asus. All works fine with great signal now in all areas around the house. But looking at the Asus router's wireless connected clients it shows a second "RT-AC68U" connected, and the log shows repeated DHCPDiscover and DHCPOffer logs every 3 seconds continuously. The MAC address associated with these logs is the router's own MAC.
Is the Asus connecting wirelessly with the powerline wifi and trying to give itself a DHCP address? I've obviously messed things up by giving the repeater wifi the same network credentials, but I don't know how to do it without creating two differently named networks around the house which I don't want.
Is there a way of having the repeater powerline adapter set up with the same network name, but preventing the asus from connecting wirelessly and seeing itself as a second RT-AC68U?
Many thanks for suggestions.
I think I've inadvertently created a loop in my home network and I'm not sure how to fix it.
I have an RT-AC68U as primary wireless router (connected to a Zyxel operating in modem-only mode). The wifi signal from the AC68U is a bit low at one side of the house, so as I have several powerline adapters (develo dLAN 1200+ models) around the house I used the wifi function in one of these to create a new wifi zone, and another plugged into the AC68U. I gave adapter at the far side of the house the same wireless network name and passwords as the Asus. All works fine with great signal now in all areas around the house. But looking at the Asus router's wireless connected clients it shows a second "RT-AC68U" connected, and the log shows repeated DHCPDiscover and DHCPOffer logs every 3 seconds continuously. The MAC address associated with these logs is the router's own MAC.
Is the Asus connecting wirelessly with the powerline wifi and trying to give itself a DHCP address? I've obviously messed things up by giving the repeater wifi the same network credentials, but I don't know how to do it without creating two differently named networks around the house which I don't want.
Is there a way of having the repeater powerline adapter set up with the same network name, but preventing the asus from connecting wirelessly and seeing itself as a second RT-AC68U?
Many thanks for suggestions.