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Old 18-10-2018, 19:31   #1
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ASUS N66U in AP Mode

Ever since I have invested in an Asus AC88U I have been using my old N66U as an access point and have been running a media server off it as well as boosting WiFi in the far corners of our large semi. When it is working it is great, but it has always been quite unstable, sometimes becoming inaccessible, even using the ASUS device discovery utility.

I've noted that the ip is on a different subnet, allocating the N66U 192.168.10.173. Is a different subnet always the outcome of switching to AP mode?

When I try to configure the N66U further or troubleshhot the device discovery utility gives me a dialogue I am not sure what to do with, so I can no longer access the UI. Any ideas please?

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It's OK folk. I solved the problem myself.

What most of the on line guides and videos don't tell you is exactly how to set up your AP Router IP manually. They tend to skip over that, just leaving you with automatic IP acquisition. 192.168.10. ***

My N66U IP is now 192.168.1.5 , manually set as part of setting AP mode. I can now access the UI no problem and it works perfectly as a media server too.

The key thing that seemed to make a difference was to set the default DNS server the same as the default gateway, i.e. 192.168.1.1 (The main router ip) I don't know if this applies to routers other than ASUS, because ASUS routers cache DNS.
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