TP-Link AX3000 & Epson WF-2650
Just bought this router yesterday and after hours of tinkering around, I finally got it to where the DHCP Client List would see (and then let me reserve) the IPs and MACs of all the wireless clients ... save for one. I had to do this one at a time, too, and it was tedious. I had to connect with my PS3, PS4, Vizio TV, two FireSticks, my phone, and my printer and click the "Refresh" link after they connected to the router in order for them to be listed under "DHCP Client List" where I could change and reserve their IPs by their MAC addresses. The Epson Printer is the only outlier ................. but it's weird!!
As the picture below shows, the Epson Printer shows up on the "Basic" and "Advanced" tabs of "Network" ...
But under "Network" --> "DHCP Server" ...... it doesn't now show at all under the DHCP Client List ... and as a result, I can't change/reserve a static IP by its MAC address. There's also a discrepancy in detected wireless clients. The pic above shows 4 ... but I have a total of 8 wireless devices on the router, and it's disappointing that my previous router (e.g. Linksys EA6350) not only had a simular web interface (and possibly same software as this AX50), but it did a better job at telling me my wireless devices apart, especially my consoles. This is the major reason why I had to connect each one one at a time -- if the DHCP Client listed the manufacturer properly (i.e. Sony, Vizio, Motorola) like my old router did, this wouldn't be that much of an issue ...
Another issue with the printer and this AX50 -- under the default/shipped settings for the Default Gateway (192.168.0.1) -- it would not connect to the router in wireless mode. Not with the password. Not with WPS mode. Not with a PIN number. Furthermore, at times when it actually DID connect to the AX50 and was even visible to my Windows 10 machine and Epson's own taskbar monitoring software (and yet not listed in the DHCP Client List), it should NOT have been since the IP was listed as 192.168.1.15 (i.e. the printer's default IP) instead of 192.168.0.15 that the AX50's DHCP Server shoudl've have given it in the first place.
To make things more weird, once I changed the gateway of the AX50 to 192.168.1.1, the WF-2650 would connect to the router without issue via password, WPS button or WPS pin number, and I could access the printer's web server by opening a browser to 192.168.1.15. It was there I discovered upon poking around that there's no IPv4 support in the web interface at all -- only IPv6 support ... and yet something somewhere is translating the IPv4 address to an IPv6 equivilent ...
In short, I just want this printer to show up in the DHCP Client lists so I can bind its MAC to an IP ... and it never shows up!
And I don't know who to point the finger at ...