Hi all, having a strange problem. I'll give as much detail as possible. I have a Neptune Apex aquarium controller used to monitor/control equipment on an aquarium. It does not connect over wireless so you have 2 options of connecting. Either hard wire it to a router(not an option for me because of location) or plugged into a wireless gaming adapter or range extender which is the way I am set up. I have a Windstream Sagecom modem/router. It does have wireless but I turned that off some time ago because the wireless wasn't reliable. I have an Asus RT-AC66U router for my wireless. My WAN IP from the modem is 192.168.254.1 LAN IP of the Asus is 192.168.1.1. The wireless range extender is a Belkin which gets it's wireless signal from the ASUS. I needed to restart the Apex controller after I made some changes to some settings. DHCP was on and when it came back up it got assigned an IP in the 192.168.254.xxx range. That's my first question, why did it get an IP in that range and not in the 1921.68.1.xxx range?? I also could not connect to it. I disabled DHCP and manually assigned it an IP in the 192.168.1.xxx range. Still can't connect to it and can't even ping it from my desktop PC which also has an IP in the 192.168.1.xxx range. Why not? I should mention also that there is a cloud service(Apex Fusion) you can connect to the Apex from from anywhere you have an internet connection. When DHCP was on and the Apex had the 192.168.254.xxx address I couldn't access it there either. After manually assigning the 192.168.1.xxx address I can connect to it from the cloud, so it is on the internet but not locally on my PC. Sorry for the log post, but wanted to give as much info as possible
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