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Apr 2, 2016 5:06 PM in response to Timothy Coleby Tesserax,I'm using an airport base station with WPA 2 Personal encryption and DCHP only set with an IP address reserved for each device that regularly connects to the network.
Apple designed the "DHCP only" option for when you want to distribute a series of public IP addresses from your ISP to devices on your local network. I'm not sure you are using it as such in this case.
Does this issue only happen when you attempt to access the IP camera from a remote location or even happens with local connections? Regardless, what is the make & model of your other networking hardware (modem, gateway, router, etc.)?
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Apr 3, 2016 12:51 PM in response to Tesseraxby Timothy Cole,Ok so here is the setup:
We have comcast as our ISP which comes in over Coax to the Cable Modem from XFinity
Cable Modem HW Version: 1.5 Vendor: Technicolor BOOT Version: 2.1.8_Technicolor Core Version: 01.E6.01.22.25 Model: TC8305C Product Type: Technicolor DOCSIS 3.0 Packet Cable 2.0 advanced cable gateway Flash Part: 64 MB Download Version: 01.E6.01.22.25 From the Cable Modem I have two ethernet connections, one to my HP Printer CM1312mfp and the other to my Airport Extreme Base Station Model Number A1301.
On my Airport Extreme Base Station I have a reserved IP address (Static IP) for the following devices:
My iPhone 6
My Wife's iPhone 6
My Wife's iPad mini
DLink IP Camera DCS-5020L
Onkyo Receiver (Ethernet)
AppleTV (Ethernet)
MacPro 2008 (Ethernet)
Macbook Pro
The interesting thing is that even though I have a Static IP Reserved through the Airport Base Station, the Gateway Router / Modem is showing 2 of them with DHCP:
Also when I click refresh on the connected devices page, it keeps showing several devices dropping and then reconnecting:
So it keeps flipping back and forth between the first and second image here.
Lastly, since the setup is ethernet to the base station and then wireless connection to the base station, shouldn't the airport base station be the only device showing in the xfinity cable modem connected devices?
Seems like I might have a setting configured wrong between the Cable Modem and then my Airport Base Station.
Thanks!
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Apr 3, 2016 1:10 PM in response to Timothy Coleby Tesserax,Ok, so the Technicolor is not a simple modem, but a combination modem & wireless router. The correct configuration for the AirPort is bridge mode in this case. You can still assign a static local IP address to the base station. Your Technicolor will then have the responsibility to hand out local IP addresses to both devices connected to it AND those connected to the Extreme.
Also, be aware that your AirPort Extreme is at least 6 years old. Typically networking hardware has a useful life of around 5 yrs. Not saying that it is problematic, just letting you know.
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Apr 3, 2016 1:21 PM in response to Tesseraxby Timothy Cole,So in this case is there any benefit to having the Airport Extreme base station? Originally I thought having the base station behind the modem / router would offer additional security (Not an IT Expert here but I do what I can). So is it that both the Technicolor and the base station are trying to handle assigning IP addresses that is causing the interference / connection problems?
Also running a 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz network on the base station and at times one will stop and I have to connect to the other and then pages load fine, so it could be the base station.
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Apr 3, 2016 1:31 PM in response to Timothy Coleby Tesserax,So in this case is there any benefit to having the Airport Extreme base station? Originally I thought having the base station behind the modem / router would offer additional security...
The security benefit of placing multiple routers in series does not overcome the performance inefficiencies that they introduce to be worth it. The strongest security would be to implement both a full-featured router/firewall and wireless security with a strong password.
So is it that both the Technicolor and the base station are trying to handle assigning IP addresses that is causing the interference / connection problems?
Potentially, yes. Both have DHCP enabled. This is the service that hands out IP addresses to local network clients. By placing the downstream router (your Extreme) in bridge mode, eliminates this issue.
Also running a 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz network on the base station and at times one will stop and I have to connect to the other and then pages load fine, so it could be the base station.
In a properly configured roaming network, you can use multiple Wireless Access Points (WAP), each broadcasting their own Wi-Fi network. However, each would broadcast that network using the same network name (aka, SSID), and use the same wireless security type & password. Thus, from a network wireless client's perspective, they would only see "one" network.
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Apr 3, 2016 5:27 PM in response to Tesseraxby Timothy Cole,Ok, so I changed the base station to Bridged and then in the Technicolor config I clicked on connected devices, click on each device thats connected and click edit to change it from DHCP to Reserved IP, and click save. When I refresh however, it show's the device still as DHCP. I was able to get my camera to switch to Static IP on the Technicolor config but everything else I change to a Reserved IP and it switches right back to DHCP....?
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Apr 3, 2016 9:33 PM in response to Timothy Coleby Tesserax,Ok, so I changed the base station to Bridged and then in the Technicolor config I clicked on connected devices, click on each device thats connected and click edit to change it from DHCP to Reserved IP, and click save. When I refresh however, it show's the device still as DHCP.
Sorry, but that seems to be an issue with setting up static IPs on your Technicolor gateway. Typically, you would have three choices: 1) Use DHCP to assign a dynamic IP address, 2) Use DHCP to assign a "reserved from its pool of addresses" IP address, or 3) Assign the IP address at the client itself. If you do the last one, the address must be outside the DHCP range scope.
For example, if the Technicolor's DHCP service assigns addresses from 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.100, you would want to assign a static IP address to the Extreme of, at least, 192.168.1.101. You can do this using the AirPort Utility, as follows:
- Run the AirPort Utility, select the Extreme, and then select Edit.
- Select the Internet tab.
- Change Connect Using to: Static
- IPv4 Address: 192.168.1.101
- Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
- Router Address: <enter the LAN IP of your Technicolor gateway>
- DNS Servers: <enter your desired DNS server IP addresses>
- Click on Update and allow the base station to restart.

