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IP address issue!
Hi! I have a home network and a separate network in the suite (specifically, there is a switch feeding the internet to the Telus equipment for the home, and a third party router for the suite). ...
A public IP typically means your router is connected wrong. If you're having problems connecting to the network for the rental suite, is the ethernet cable from the switch connected to the WAN port on the TP-Link router or one of the LAN ports? It should be into the WAN port.
Nighthawk
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Community Power UserA public IP typically means your router is connected wrong. If you're having problems connecting to the network for the rental suite, is the ethernet cable from the switch connected to the WAN port on the TP-Link router or one of the LAN ports? It should be into the WAN port.
Hi Nighthawk!
Wow it looks like you have saved the day (again!).
When I set the new router for the suite up originally, I googled WAN -v- LAN... and thought yep put the cable from the switch in the suite router's WAN. But my iphone showed no internet connection via WAN. I tried LAN... and it worked.
Following your reply above... I tried again... same problem. This time, I went onto my laptop as well... and it brought up the tp-link router config page in the browser... so I ran their router setup the suite router. After doing that the suite wifi/internet now works when the cable is connected from the switch into suite router's WAN. Horray!
I just tried to connect the Roku, which is now happily connected. That whole guest mode thing I assume is fixed (I've left it in guest mode and am optimistic tomorrow it will still work as opposed to "brick out"!)
Phew!
I hope I've cracked it now!
Again thanks! I really can't say how grateful I am.
