Grid Connect tips, tricks and help

[CSParnell]

Hi all,

I thought it may he good to have a feed where we could share any tips and tricks to do with any of the Grid Connect Range being Arlec, Deta, Verve, Orion.

I am learning from trial and error and really just accident so sharing with others and sharing back we may be able to create some good learning information for us all.

Please post below starting with what the trick is as the title then how to do so as the body of information.

Carl 

[CSParnell]

Hi @Tinmann , @MitchellMc 

I would dare say your primary router is set to 5GHz or 5 + 2.4GHz where by your extenders are probably 2.4GHz.

If your primary is 5+2.4 disable the 5, try to connect your device/s and if successful then re-enable the 5ghz again. If not successful with 5 still disabled try to connect with AP mode (slow flash) mode rather than EZ (fast flash) mode and see if that works. 

Don't forget to re enable 5GHz again 

That is the 2 main reasons

Let me know how U go

[Tinmann]

Thanks so much. Great to be part of community that helps each other 

[Tinmann]

Cheers. I’ll try that and let you know how it goes 

[w0mbat]

Hi Tinmann,

I am afraid it is a little more complicated than has been suggested. For a start. the IP address of the range extenders will have to be in the same subnet as your main network ie main router. For arguments sake, say the IP address of your router is 192.168.0.1  Then you need to assign fixed IP addresses to the range extenders that are in the same range ie 192.168.0.XXX   Devices that are NOT on the same subnet cannot communicate.

Unfortunately, range extenders use non conventional networking methods. For example, the MAC address of the range extenders is often altered by their software. Normally MAC addresses are fixed on a piece of hardware. That is not the case with range extenders. This means that you may see a range extender listed twice in the routers list of connected devices. All very confusing. Just ignore any device which does not have the IP address that you gave it.

There is a lot of info about range extenders and their weirdness on the net.

However if you make sure all your devices are on the same subnet (ie the IP addresses of all devices start with the same three numbers but have a unique number in the fourth position they should be able to talk to each other.

There is a lot of confusion around the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks on modern routers. Just because the devices are connected to a different radio in the router does NOT mean they cannot communicate. The two radios are linked inside the router and they will have the same IP address structure.

Some people claim to have issues when pairing new Grid Connect devices (which ONLY connect to a 2.4GHz radio) when the 5GHz radio is running.

I have never found that to be the case and I have paired literally dozens of Grid Connect devices.

People also confuse 2.4 GHz and 5GHz in routers with the 4G and 5 G mobile phone networks. They are completely unrelated.

I hope this helps. Computer networking is a complex subject but if you bother to learn the basics you should be able to make any home network perform properly.

Good luck!

I will try to help more if necessary but you really need to have a basic networking knowledge to confidently set up a network.

Ian