RE315 Dropping connections / IP Address Assignment strange behaviour
HI All
I just bought an RE315 to extend my WiFi and provide an ethernet port for use mainly by a gaming PC separated by a concrete floor from my router. The raw router signal is actually not too bad (2-3 bars) but slow. The RE315 is great when it works, and gives me decent speed, and was cheap, but it seems to drop connections at random.
So far as I can figure, about 50% of the time it is ignoring the DHCP server on my router and allocating its own private class B IP addresses (169.254.X.X) on a 3 minute lease. Like most people, my home router (a BT SmartHub2) uses a 192.168.1.XXX Class C address range and a 2880 minute lease time. The result is that devices keep dropping off my router's network, picking up an address allocated by the extender which then doesn't get routed to or from the rest of my network.
I've tried configuring the RE315 using Tether but there seems no way to simply fix this behaviour. Do I really need to carve out a separate pool of DHCP addresses for the RE315 to use, or is there another, simple way to fix this?
(P.S. Yes, I know Class C & Class B is deprecated terminology but I'm old and can't be bothered changing!)
Steve