Why does that right hand router have red x's above two of the ports, and a tick above the third one? Any port can normally be used.
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Why does that right hand router have red x's above two of the ports, and a tick above the third one? Any port can normally be used.
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Blurry as it is the device on the right hand side (probably a switch, less likely to be a router) seems to have ports numbered 1,2 and 3. They would likely function equivalently. I don't recall seeing devices that must use a particular port for a modem, but they may exist
Sometimes routers have a port that is physically the same shape but is marked up in some way that draws the distinction as to how it is wired internally, such as "wan"or "uplink" - in a situation where the router is logically downstream of another network device. The router manages its own small network and lets devices on it communicate directly with each other, and it can forward traffic it knows is destined for the upstream network to allow computers inside its network communicate up.
Typically special provisions have to be made for upstream computers to communicate down into the downstream network; this is the pivotal difference between using the wan port and plugging into any other port - if you plug into another port you're connecting to the regular switch within the box and your devices in the other non-wan ports join the network at the same level rather than being downstream of the other box
The small nuisance in this is you may then have two devices on the same level in a network that both think they're responsible for providing services like routing and doling out IP addresses, and whether they play nice with each other is down to how they're programmed
This is often the potential pitfall of reusing an ISP supplied "all in one" box that has a modem, router and switch, and trying to use just the switch part of it - the router may be hard coded to treat the modem as the upstream and not offer an option for deactivating the services that serve the local network, because it has been created to solve a common problem in a particular way and not to be a flexible network device
Sometimes routers have a port that is physically the same shape but is marked up in some way that draws the distinction as to how it is wired internally, such as "wan"or "uplink" - in a situation where the router is logically downstream of another network device. The router manages its own small network and lets devices on it communicate directly with each other, and it can forward traffic it knows is destined for the upstream network to allow computers inside its network communicate up.
Typically special provisions have to be made for upstream computers to communicate down into the downstream network; this is the pivotal difference between using the wan port and plugging into any other port - if you plug into another port you're connecting to the regular switch within the box and your devices in the other non-wan ports join the network at the same level rather than being downstream of the other box
The small nuisance in this is you may then have two devices on the same level in a network that both think they're responsible for providing services like routing and doling out IP addresses, and whether they play nice with each other is down to how they're programmed
This is often the potential pitfall of reusing an ISP supplied "all in one" box that has a modem, router and switch, and trying to use just the switch part of it - the router may be hard coded to treat the modem as the upstream and not offer an option for deactivating the services that serve the local network, because it has been created to solve a common problem in a particular way and not to be a flexible network device
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I think it's not a router, it's [probably] an ONT, the fibre equivalent of a modem.
LOL, or not, it's a "Strong Atria" [no, me neither] mesh wifi thing.
Not an ONT, but well spotted on the Strong Atria. Port #3 appears to be a WAN/LAN port.
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I bought a TP Link Access Point and Network Switch. The network switch is still in its box.
I connected the cat5 to lanport 2 in the router and into the access point in the shed and all five lights were green "last night".
This morning the Internet light on the access point is not green "it's off". I plugged the access point directly into the router "in the house" with the supplied cable that came with the access point and it works with all the available lan ports on the router, yet in the shed through the cat5 "nothing" so yesterday it worked, today it doesn't.
I'm off a mind to change the cat 5 to a cat 6 with the connections factory fitted.
It is doing my head in...
Do you have any idea why it works then doesn't work please...
I bought a TP Link Access Point and Network Switch. The network switch is still in its box.
I connected the cat5 to lanport 2 in the router and into the access point in the shed and all five lights were green "last night".
This morning the Internet light on the access point is not green "it's off". I plugged the access point directly into the router "in the house" with the supplied cable that came with the access point and it works with all the available lan ports on the router, yet in the shed through the cat5 "nothing" so yesterday it worked, today it doesn't.
I'm off a mind to change the cat 5 to a cat 6 with the connections factory fitted.
It is doing my head in...
Do you have any idea why it works then doesn't work please...
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If it's an access point, there won't be a WAN light. What's the model number?
I thought I'd post pictures....I'm wondering...last night nothing was being used in the house whereas today my wife has two laptops on the go and her mobile...
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Use a laptop to check the port where you'll be connecting your AP. Make sure it works OK.
Set up the AP with the same wireless details as the rest of your network. Plug it in to the above port.
Leave it for a few days. See how it behaves. It should have a status thing that says when clients are connected, so you should be able to see things connected occasionally.
Once the above is working, move it to its final resting place.
Set up the AP with the same wireless details as the rest of your network. Plug it in to the above port.
Leave it for a few days. See how it behaves. It should have a status thing that says when clients are connected, so you should be able to see things connected occasionally.
Once the above is working, move it to its final resting place.
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