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PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-03 15:40:15
Model: TL-WPA8630 KIT  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.0.5

Hello,

 

I am running stable diffusion on one PC connected to a normal router (not from TP-link) and I can acces the local url on other PCs connected to this router. However when I try to connect to my repeater, a AV1300 from the (wpa8631p set) I cannot acces this site. The same problem occurs when I am sharing a folder using the windows share folder functinoality.

I read online it's because the extender is creating a new network rather than repeating the already exsisting one but I don't see an option to clone the LAN network.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-10 08:05:29

  @vatsk 

 

Hi, even though the powerline extender has its own WiFi network, it is still within the same LAN network as the router as the router is still acting as DHCP Server for the extender client devices.

 

Please make sure the PC connected to the extender could access internet properly, try to ping the router LAN IP address and also the PC IP address under your router network to see if ping works:

How to Use the Ping Command

 

 

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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-10 19:07:12

  @Sunshine Hello, I am able to go onto the regular internet (I pinged www.google.com succesfully) with my receiver pc. I pinged my host pc and it timed out for all packets.
My host pc only has ethernet and is connected to the primary router I used ipconfig and used that adress to ping from the receiver pc.
Anything else i can try? Do you need my extender settings?

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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-10 19:16:00
The same goes for my router ip, request timed out every time.
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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-10 19:19:36
The default gateway for the host is 192.168.128.1 while the default gateway for the receiver is 192.168.0.1
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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-11 01:58:21

  @vatsk 

vatsk wrote

The default gateway for the host is 192.168.128.1 while the default gateway for the receiver is 192.168.0.1

 

Please try to turn off the host router and the powerline extender, then turn on the host router first and then turn on the powerline extender.

After that, please check if the default gateway on the PC connected to the extender will be 192.168.128.1 or not.

 

If it is still 192.168.0.1, please login the extender web interface:

How to log into the web-based management interface of Powerline ac Extender

 

Go to Device Settings->LAN Settings, change the IP address and Default Gateway for the extender manually:

 

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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-11 17:55:50

  @Sunshine

Thank you for the further suggestions.I did exactly as you suggested but nothing worked.

The two restarts (in the correct order) did not change anything.

The static ip change restarted the extender but after that the extender was not able to be reached on the new ip (192.168.128.2). Putting the adress into the browser results in infinite load time. The default gateway also did not change upon changing it in the tplink settings.

 

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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-12 02:23:34

  @vatsk 

 

Hi, is the PC using DHCP to obtain IP address automatically?

Please try connecting both PCs to the router at the same time, then check if the Default Gateway on both PCs will be the same 192.168.128.1 and if they could communicate with each other, if so, please then connect one of them back to the powerline extender and check the default gateway again.

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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-12 07:54:01

  @Sunshine The PC connected to the router uses an ethernet cable so I assume it's using static IP. The other pc should be using DHCP.
If I connect both to the router the default gateway is 192.168.128.1 for both of them and communication works without issue.

When I then switch to the powerline extender the default gateway changes again.

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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-13 01:32:12

  @vatsk 

 

Hi, please try to configure static IP and default gateway on the PC connected to the powerline extender, you could use IP address 192.168.128.x, subnet mask 255.255.255.0, default gateway 192.168.128.1.

Here is the instruction about how to configure static IP address on computers: 

How to configure static IP on the computer

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Re:PC on repeater cannot find PC on main router
2023-10-14 22:40:52

  @Sunshine 

I did exactly as you said. When I configured the static ip there is no more internet connection possible on the extender. When I connect to any other network there is.
And when I connect with the static ip on the pc to the extender I can't even get into the tp link interface anymore.
I'm slowly going crazy

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