I have an Airport Extreme(main router) with an IP address of 10.0.1.1 . I installed an outdoor AP (NOT apple) using wired connection(Ethernet) and used the IP address 192.168.1.1 . The network seems to work fine, but is that the best set up?.
Thank you
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
If the "outdoor AP" is using a 192.168.x.x address, even if connected to the Extreme by Ethernet they will NOT be able to communicate with each other. That is because they will be on different subnets.
You would either need to change the IP address of one or the other.
This depends on how the Outdoor AP is setup.
Is it setup to extend the existing network, or its setup as a router itself, and is creating a secondary network outside?
If its just extending, it can be anything you want really in the 10.0.1.x range. Just make it 10.0.1.2. The only real requirement is that they need to be on the same subnet unless your outdoor access point is acting as a router itself creating another network. If that is the case, the IP address facing the AirPort Extreme should be one that is in the same subnet as the Airport Extreme. And you'll need to make sure the address you assign to it, is reserved in the Airport Extreme, so i does not try to assign it to any other device.
The Outdoor AP can then issue any IP addresses it wants to the devices connected to it, and the IP it has that is facing the connected devices can be anything within the subnet it is handing out.
I Would like to keep the 10.0.1.1 for my router . What IP address do you recommend for the AP?
THank you
If the outdoor AP can be configured as a DHCP client, then it will get the proper IP address from the AirPort base station.
What IP address to use for an Access point?
