3 routers / 1 switch. I have questions
I have 3 routers. #1 router: Hooked to the cable modem, IP 192.168.1.1. Has some devices hooked to it like my google phone & My Verizon extender, Amazon Firestick. Just my devices that I don't car...
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Routers "Dot 1 & 2": TP-link AC1750 running the latest factory firmware. Both have WiFi's (2.4 & 5) on but 4 different SSID's.
Garage (router 3) is a ASUS RT-N12 N300 (firmware never updated). Set as access point only. IP set to 192.168.2.2. & that address is reserved in Dot 2. No wired devices in garage. Just a cat 5e feed into LAN port. It's mainly for my RV PC to use to get on the network. I load videos to the RV PC harddrive from the house. That way when we go someplace we have videos to watch.
WIRING:
Cable Modem cat 7 to router "Dot 1" WAN
Router 2 "VPN router" uses Cat7 from it's WAN to LAN port on dot 1.
Router 3 (Access point) uses cat 5e from one of its LAN port to switch then to on to router 2's LAN port from unmanaged switch
Today, I've turned the power off again as a test. Everything booted right up the way I expected it to. I don't know what happened the last time when the power failed due to a storm. Maybe I had one of the WiFi adapters enabled and a PC grabbed a IP from Dot 1.
I've went into network settings and "forgot" all the passwords to the WiFi's on dot 1. That way even if the WiFi adapter gets enabled somehow, those PC's can't get on to dot 1 without a password.
Might be nice if dot 2 would wait for dot 1 to boot up before doing so itself. I could put a delay relay on the low voltage line powering dot 2 but what I'm doing is already over most peoples head. If something happens to me, my wife will have to marry a computer geek so she can get on facebook. :)
Garage (router 3) is a ASUS RT-N12 N300 (firmware never updated). Set as access point only. IP set to 192.168.2.2. & that address is reserved in Dot 2. No wired devices in garage. Just a cat 5e feed into LAN port. It's mainly for my RV PC to use to get on the network. I load videos to the RV PC harddrive from the house. That way when we go someplace we have videos to watch.
WIRING:
Cable Modem cat 7 to router "Dot 1" WAN
Router 2 "VPN router" uses Cat7 from it's WAN to LAN port on dot 1.
Router 3 (Access point) uses cat 5e from one of its LAN port to switch then to on to router 2's LAN port from unmanaged switch
Today, I've turned the power off again as a test. Everything booted right up the way I expected it to. I don't know what happened the last time when the power failed due to a storm. Maybe I had one of the WiFi adapters enabled and a PC grabbed a IP from Dot 1.
I've went into network settings and "forgot" all the passwords to the WiFi's on dot 1. That way even if the WiFi adapter gets enabled somehow, those PC's can't get on to dot 1 without a password.
Might be nice if dot 2 would wait for dot 1 to boot up before doing so itself. I could put a delay relay on the low voltage line powering dot 2 but what I'm doing is already over most peoples head. If something happens to me, my wife will have to marry a computer geek so she can get on facebook. :)
