Hi there,
Would love some advice from the networking experts here.
I have a Netgear Nighthawk R7800, used as access point in the house for 95% of the devices. Lots of cellphones, tablets, streaming media players and IoT devices. Router is very capable, has a large online following for how capable and reliable it is. It's a quad-core device with a large RAM pool (from what I've read, compared to other routers). Currently the wifi on both bands is very stable, reaching every corner of the house easily where others have failed. It's connected via ethernet to the main router, a junk Dlink DIR-825 from the ISP, which is functioning as my main routing device at the moment.
I used to have both devices doing routing, creating a double NAT situation. This was fine at the time, but I'm adding plenty of IoT devices and that configuration just didn't work anymore. So now the Netgear has DHCP disabled and function as access point only. This has solved the issue where some devices couldn't communicate with each other if not connected to the same router / network. But it seems to be too taxing on the Dlink, which fails to assign IP's to devices at some stage during the day, leading to many devices not being able to connect. A reset will fix it, but needs to be done every other day or so now.
I'm planning to replace the Dlink with a newer Wireless AX device, to accommodate more IoT devices.
My question is this - what would the best configuration be for the devices in this case:
Netgear R7800 (AC wireless): Access point for house, 30-50 devices
New wifi 6 (AX wireless): Routing for entire network, but only connected to Netgear AP + 4 laptops.
Or should I use the new WIFI 6 device in the house and move the Netgear to the office to do the routing?
Essentially, should the device with more processing power and memory do the routing or be used to as AP to keep multiple devices connected?
Hope this makes sense, thanks in advance!
Would love some advice from the networking experts here.
I have a Netgear Nighthawk R7800, used as access point in the house for 95% of the devices. Lots of cellphones, tablets, streaming media players and IoT devices. Router is very capable, has a large online following for how capable and reliable it is. It's a quad-core device with a large RAM pool (from what I've read, compared to other routers). Currently the wifi on both bands is very stable, reaching every corner of the house easily where others have failed. It's connected via ethernet to the main router, a junk Dlink DIR-825 from the ISP, which is functioning as my main routing device at the moment.
I used to have both devices doing routing, creating a double NAT situation. This was fine at the time, but I'm adding plenty of IoT devices and that configuration just didn't work anymore. So now the Netgear has DHCP disabled and function as access point only. This has solved the issue where some devices couldn't communicate with each other if not connected to the same router / network. But it seems to be too taxing on the Dlink, which fails to assign IP's to devices at some stage during the day, leading to many devices not being able to connect. A reset will fix it, but needs to be done every other day or so now.
I'm planning to replace the Dlink with a newer Wireless AX device, to accommodate more IoT devices.
My question is this - what would the best configuration be for the devices in this case:
Netgear R7800 (AC wireless): Access point for house, 30-50 devices
New wifi 6 (AX wireless): Routing for entire network, but only connected to Netgear AP + 4 laptops.
Or should I use the new WIFI 6 device in the house and move the Netgear to the office to do the routing?
Essentially, should the device with more processing power and memory do the routing or be used to as AP to keep multiple devices connected?
Hope this makes sense, thanks in advance!
