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Hello Anandtech community!
I am somewhat of a network noob. I've successfully added a network bridge albeit with some serious headache. I work full time with kids and have a degree in Neuroscience from UCLA. So I'm a power user compared to the average joe but compared to some of you on here I have no clue what I'm doing.
I humbly ask for your help. I am considering buying a second RT-AC66U. I currently have one and an RT-52U as the bridge. I'm planning on moving to a large house soon and that's where this game plan comes in. Before then I was thinking the following:
Change the current RT-AC66U IP from 192.168.1.1 to something else like 192.168.1.x (x= whatever I want besides 1 and whatever else dhcp has already assigned). Currently the RT-52U can be accessed via 192.168.1.216.
Here's my question. I initially tried to assign the RT-52U an IP of 192.168.1.220. Somehow it was instead assigned 216 instead. I installed the ASUS utility to search and it I guess was assigned 216 even though I did this:
So here's my real question, if I were to go into the admin page and change the IP of my RT-AC66U to something like 192.168.1.223 or whatever (I've checked that this hasn't been assigned yet) what problems might I run into if any? How should I approach this differently if at all? I need to get the concepts right to understand any of the details. There are simply too many options and the terminology is so vast I'd have to study this like I did in college just to get it all right without your help. I hope someone can make this all a lot simpler but perhaps I'll have to just suffer through it. I'm simply afraid that I won't be able to access my router at all if I don't do this correctly. That's exactly what happened with the RT-AC52U and I had to do a complete recovery mode firmware update and all just to try again and I don't even remember all the steps I had to do. I've bookmarked everything related to that but I still am not 100% confident I remember the exact order and details that went into "repairing" that situation but in the end I got it all working. I'd like to avoid repeating that level of blundering if possible. In advance I thank you for your time and effort!
Sincerely,
Justin S.
I am somewhat of a network noob. I've successfully added a network bridge albeit with some serious headache. I work full time with kids and have a degree in Neuroscience from UCLA. So I'm a power user compared to the average joe but compared to some of you on here I have no clue what I'm doing.
I humbly ask for your help. I am considering buying a second RT-AC66U. I currently have one and an RT-52U as the bridge. I'm planning on moving to a large house soon and that's where this game plan comes in. Before then I was thinking the following:
Change the current RT-AC66U IP from 192.168.1.1 to something else like 192.168.1.x (x= whatever I want besides 1 and whatever else dhcp has already assigned). Currently the RT-52U can be accessed via 192.168.1.216.
Here's my question. I initially tried to assign the RT-52U an IP of 192.168.1.220. Somehow it was instead assigned 216 instead. I installed the ASUS utility to search and it I guess was assigned 216 even though I did this:
So here's my real question, if I were to go into the admin page and change the IP of my RT-AC66U to something like 192.168.1.223 or whatever (I've checked that this hasn't been assigned yet) what problems might I run into if any? How should I approach this differently if at all? I need to get the concepts right to understand any of the details. There are simply too many options and the terminology is so vast I'd have to study this like I did in college just to get it all right without your help. I hope someone can make this all a lot simpler but perhaps I'll have to just suffer through it. I'm simply afraid that I won't be able to access my router at all if I don't do this correctly. That's exactly what happened with the RT-AC52U and I had to do a complete recovery mode firmware update and all just to try again and I don't even remember all the steps I had to do. I've bookmarked everything related to that but I still am not 100% confident I remember the exact order and details that went into "repairing" that situation but in the end I got it all working. I'd like to avoid repeating that level of blundering if possible. In advance I thank you for your time and effort!
Sincerely,
Justin S.
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