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So this is baffling to me for some reason, and I'm sure the solution is quite simple.
I have these three devices that make up my current home network:
TP-Link Access Point
So, here's the issue. The Access point has a long cable running from one side of the house to the router, so that I can broadcast the signal at full strength on that side of the house. The users on that side of the house want their own SSID and password. So, to accomodate, I set the AP in "Access Point" mode, set up their own SSID and password, and enabled DHCP so that when they connect to their separate SSID their device is assigned an IP.
Cable modem -> Wireless Router (using DHCP) -> Wireless Access Point (using DHCP)
All hell broke lose. My router would randomly start assigning the wrong gateway to all of the devices connected to it, and the connection speeds plummeted as soon as I plug the AP into it. Is this because I technically have two DHCP servers on one router? Does it matter that the SSIDs are separate?
What would be the correct set up here? As of right now I temporarily fixed it by reserving an IP in the router for the AP, and setting the DHCP range of the access point outside the DHCP range of the router, so they don't conflict. I still don't think this is the correct solution. Can anyone who has better knowledge than me please chime in and tell me how I should do this? I am at a loss.
Thank you very much.
1Post your current configurations, channels they are on as well as IP ranges and router and ap IP addresss. Make sure you set your IP of the ap outside of your dhcp range of your router. Say if the routers dhcp range was 10.168.3.100-10.168.3.249 then you could set the Access point(ap) as 10.168.3.250-10.168.3.254 or between 10.168.3.1-10.168.3.99 see if that helps you out any. – NetworkKingPin – 2016-02-19T14:54:46.470
I actually already had done this. The AP is only giving out addresses outside of the range of addresses of the router. It seemed to be okay, but I figured that was not the optimal configuration. – Syrne – 2016-02-19T15:42:09.823