I have two MI424WR routers that I would like run on my home network. The primary has been here for about 12 months and works great. It's connected to my OTN via RJ45 and is installed into a SmartBox - a fancy word for a clever utility cabinet in the wall with cable management.
The primary and secondary are identical models and have the same firmware installed.
The primary is providing wired and wireless connections through out the house and there are also 4 Verizon STBs which connect through the coax on the primary.
While reviewing the primary routers network connections list, I can see the STBs and an assortment of ethernet connections and wireless connections (game consoles, phones, and some TV's).
I closely followed a few of the procedures I've seen online which say they will make this scenario work, but it doesn't.
Here's what I did.
1. Change the primary router DHCP pool to start at .25 instead of .2 just to give myself some headroom for static devices in between the dynamic network and static.
2. Factory reset the secondary router and applied some benign Wireless Network setting changes like SSID and WEP.
3. Under "My Network->Network Connections->Network (Home/Office)->Settings" I changed the "IP Address" from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.10. I also changed "IP Address Distribution" to disabled.
4. Under "My Network->Network Connections->Broadband Connection->SettingsSettings" I changed the "Internet Protocol" to "obtain ip address automatically" to "no ip address".
5. Rebooted secondary router, and then once I verified all changes, I attached the coax cable to the secondary router and for about 1-2 minutes it looked like everything worked. I could access devices on both sides of the network from their respective IP addresses. The primary router was the only one handing out address via DHCP, but then suddenly the WAN connection on the primary disconnected and it seemed as though the secondary and primary were fighting over the WAN role. I even tried disabling the Broadband connection on the secondary router ... same result.
Any ideas? I hope I'm just missing a setting somewhere ... its ALMOST working.