I have my reservations inside the pool with all my other devices and have not had any issues with it on my Archer C8 as well as my previous router. What is the reason for putting them outside of the pool?

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I've always done that to make sure I don't have collisions. Right now I have about 25 wifi wall switches, 4 Alexa devices, 8 cameras with fixed IP's, a CP 210 on the house with a fixed IP broadcasting a signal across my property to another building with CPE 210 with a fixed IP on the front of a metal building connected to a wireless router (With a fixed IP) inside the building. That being said, I can't/don't want collisions so everything works correctly.

 

So I would put the cameras, the CPE 210's, the the access point router in the other building and some other devices with fixed address's outside of the DHCP server pool. Right now I have to set the server pool in a range of 50 to 254.  

 

Hopefully that makes sense. 

I have not had an issue with collisions. My assigned range is 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199 and when I made my first address reservation, I used 119. As I added devices to the reservation list I used higher numbers. Then I noted when I exceeded 19 devices, the router assigned numbers without a collision. I assigned one device as 101 and no collision. I rebooted the router each time I added new reservations,

@braxton  Correct, except for some reason this router won't let me make a reservation outside of a DHCP server range 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.254. All the other routers have let me add items to the server range. While it might not sound like a big deal, my question is, why could I do it on all the other tp-link routers and this one will not. If it because of the design intent? That's really my question. When the wifi of my other router quit working I had a Archer A8 sitting in a box that I will be using for another house/project down the street and I could set that DHCP ranges up exactly how I've in the past not an issue.  

 

I know how to get around it and I've done it, just questioning why can't set up the DHCP reservation list like I have in the past on the.

 

Another quirk I've run into. As I said I got a number of wifi switches and plugs from a number of different manufactures. I was personally testing to find out which ones were the easiest to get up and running without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. I have one particular manufactures plugs lose connectivity with the new network router at various times of the day and night. Sometimes it would reconnect, other times I had to unplug it, plug it back in and it would reconnect, worse case I had to go though and reprogram it again. The purpose of the plus and switches is to have them turn devices on and off either by command via the app, Alexa, or Alexa routines. If they go off line when I'm not home or out of town they can't provide the function I got them for to begin with. 

 

I have had these plugs for about a year and half and have never had any connectivity issues with my old router, did not have any issues with the temporary router I was using.

 

Anyways, I contacted the manufacture of the plugs about this. I removed the plugs and had them plugged into a plug strip so I could see when they lost connection with the network, In the meantime the one in question reconnected so the manufacture could not see the problem. FYI From that statement it is obvious that the manufacture can see if their plug is online and correctly working no matter where it it…….

 

What I tried next was when the plugs were connected to the network and operating correctly, I ran an IP scan on my network and got the MAC address of the plugs I was having problems with. Then I added them to the DHCP reservation list in consecutive addresses to make sure the router would not change their address. Guess what, no more problems and the switches have worked properly, and I have reconnected them to the devices they were controlling.

 

While I found a fix, why did I see that issue? Next point to be made, would the average person who does not have any type of networking experience or knowledge have been able to figure that out and fix it? Or is it just this router and it should be returned to Amazon where I go it?

 

I was hoping someone else with one of these routers might jump in.