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Re: WiFi router sugestions that can use different IP address for Home Internet 5G Gateway
I ran into this same problem yesterday setting up mine. Why choose 192.168.12.1 ??? Is this intentional, to break as many private home LAN setups as they possibly can? Then there's the forced 12+ character WiFi password. My previous password was shorter, easy to remember, and would definitely not succumb to a dictionary attack and would take a while with brute force methods. Before the T-Mobile High Speed gateway all I needed to do to swap DSL modems out was set the SSID, WiFi Password, and gateway IP. Then it was literally plug-in-and-play. Smart TV, tablets, laptop, printers, my dd-wrt wireless repeater-bridge would all carry on as though nothing had changed. But not with T-Mobile. For that I'm required to upend the configurations of every single networked device I have. What should have taken me five minutes to setup instead took half the day and I still have to get out a keyboard, monitor, and mouse just to change a 0 to 12 in my media server config. The four most commonly used gateway addresses for private networks are 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 172.16.0.1, or 10.0.0.0 If T-Mobile wants to "simplify" setup they should have those four as choices, if they don't want users to be able to choose whatever address they want. Nearly all routers and modems I've encountered are defaulted to 192.168.1.1.5Visto1like0ComentariosHome Internet IP address madness.
I figured I could simply set the gateway IP, SSID, and password exactly the same as my old DSL modem, but nooo, first T-Mobile says my old password is too short... Is there a way to change the gateway IP address from 192.168.12.1 to 192.168.0.1? The first time I turned the gateway on and configured it, I'm certain it not only asked me for the SSID and WiFi password I wanted, and the admin password I wanted, but also the gateway IP address. I then went to my office next to my house and reconfigured my wireless repeater-bridge (thanks to the T-Mobile gateway insisting I couldn't use the WiFi password I had been using) and I set it up to use 192.168.0.1 as its gateway and DNS server, with the SSID and password I'd assigned. I assigned the repeater-bridge the IP address 192.168.0.2 and the end IP to 254 (instead of the default 24) because I put my wired printer and media server connected to it at high numbers. Saved the settings in the repeater-bridge and my desktop (wired connection to it) has Internet again. But then I try to login to my laser printer and media server, both of which are on 192.168.0.xxx and can't access them. So I launch a command prompt and enter ipconfig /all and I see 192.168.12.1 is the gateway IP. Whaaaaaat?! So I put that in a browser, I get the T-Mobile user interface, but the gateway rejects the password I'd entered just a few minutes ago while setting it up. I called T-Mobile support and got a person who apparently doesn't know what an IP address is. After attempting to explain what I need to do, I give up on that. So I hold the reset button on the T-Mobile until it says release button to reset to factory settings. I go through it again with the app *but it never asks for an IP* like it did the first time. I don't know how my repeater-bridge is communicating with it when I entered 192.168.0.1 in dd-wrt's settings. The catch with this is once Save then Apply is clicked, every time I've setup a dd-wrt repeater-bridge, there's no getting back into it to change settings other than resetting it then setting it up all over again. 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.12.2 get nothing. It's like it becomes a completely invisible device pretending to be nothing but a switch connected by virtual cable to the WiFi Access point. I *had* to enter the correct gateway IP during dd-wrt's setup or it wouldn't work. I can live with the 12 instead of the 0. I've already changed that on my wired printer connected to the repeater-bridge. It's a bit of a pain to do with the buttons on a LaserJet 4100DTN, but that's all it needed to work again. (Dynamic IPs on printers, with MS Windows, almost always ends with the printer changing IP from a power cycle or who knows what, then Windows' can't find it.) To make that one tiny change on the media server I'll have to connect a mouse, keyboard, and monitor to it. (See my other post for issues with it setting up a Canon printer with WiFi.) But people shouldn't *have* to make changes to every device on their LAN because one company decides it's going to use a Gateway IP address that's different from what the majority of people use for their private LANs. That's 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, or 172.16.0.1. If T-Mobile is wanting to keep things simpler, offer those three as as user choices, NOT 192.168.12.1. Now I must reset all my security cameras, which are programmed for the 192.168.0.1 address. "Bless your heart" (meant in the most Southern way possible) T-Mobile, for not using networking standards.3.2KViews2likes8Comentarios