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cmhbob
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[Networking] Gen4 Known Router Incompatibilities?

Are there any known issues with the HT1000 and any brands or models of routers? Fixing to replace my very old D-Link DWL-900ap+ and trying to head issues off at the pass, so to speak.
rob1
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Any newer router should work fine....

Keep in the mind the default IP on the HN1000 is 192.168.0.1 which is the default on a lot of routers out of the box.

Just change the default to something like 192.168.1.1 and all should be good.

Cheers
fmw3
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I had issues both with a cheap T-Link router and an expensive Cradlepoint router. The problem was that the modem wouldn't work from the modem ports but worked from the switch ports on the router as well a wired ethernet switch. I finally got the Cradlepoint working by adjusting the DNS addresses. The poster above already explained that you will likely have to change the IP address of your router. I put mine on 192.168.0.3 and it works fine.
cmhbob
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Thanks, all. I'm looking at this ASUS or this D-Link.

dbirdman
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D-Link is one of the ones that default to 192.168.0.1 I don't know about the Asus.

Incidentally, putting a router designed for Hughes on 192.168.0.3 is a *terrible* idea. Perhaps explains why the poster could not get it to work except as a switch!

You have to put it on something outside the 192.168.0.x block. Linksys for example default to 192.168.1.1 which is fine.
rob1
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said by dbirdman:

D-Link is one of the ones that default to 192.168.0.1 I don't know about the Asus.

Incidentally, putting a router designed for Hughes on 192.168.0.3 is a *terrible* idea. Perhaps explains why the poster could not get it to work except as a switch!

You have to put it on something outside the 192.168.0.x block. Linksys for example default to 192.168.1.1 which is fine.

Why is it a "terrible" idea?.........

dbirdman
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said by rob1:

said by dbirdman:

D-Link is one of the ones that default to 192.168.0.1 I don't know about the Asus.

Incidentally, putting a router designed for Hughes on 192.168.0.3 is a *terrible* idea. Perhaps explains why the poster could not get it to work except as a switch!

You have to put it on something outside the 192.168.0.x block. Linksys for example default to 192.168.1.1 which is fine.

Why is it a "terrible" idea?.........

Because you now have two routers on the same network segment (the hughes modem is a router also). Routers are designed to join two different network segments, not to compete for the same space. When the LAN side and WAN side of a router have the same space (and 192.168.0.1/192.168.0.3 share the same space) it literally *cannot* route packets between the two.

Switches, on the other hand, are designed to move packets within a network segment.