Deco X20 Guest Network Won't Connect To Satellites Only Main Deco

Deco X20 Guest Network Won't Connect To Satellites Only Main Deco

Deco X20 Guest Network Won't Connect To Satellites Only Main Deco
Deco X20 Guest Network Won't Connect To Satellites Only Main Deco
a week ago
Model: Deco X20  
Hardware Version: V3
Firmware Version: 1.2.4 Build 20241227 Rel. 63367

I just bought a brand new Deco x20 (3) pack this weekend for our small business. I installed all 3 bases, updated the firmware for all 3 bases, and everything works great. All 3 of the bases are hard wired to our ethernet and communicating (wired ethernet logo next to each satellite base in the app) and I can see the 3 bases in the app and when I move around our building, my phone changes from base to base. (It's a literal dream come true.) I changed our LAN IP address from the default 192.168.68.1 to 10.0.0.1 because we have a number of physical printers that have static IP addresses in that 10.0.0.1 range and none of the computers would see those printers until I changed the LAN IP. After restarting the network and all our computers so they can get new IP addresses, everything still works great. Everything prints to the printers.

 

Then I turned on the Guest Network in the Deco app and gave it a name and password for all of my employees to connect their personal devices. I can see the Guest Network from my phone and the app. But no devices can connect to the Guest Network from the satellites. I'm getting "Couldn't get IP address" as the error. However, when I physically stand next to the main Deco base, my wireless device will connect to the Guest Network. But as soon as I disconnect from the main base unit, and stand next to a satellite base, and attempt to reconnect, I can no longer connect to the Guest Network again due to the IP address error. This feels like a firmware problem that the main base isn't assigning the Guest Network IP addresses when connected through the satellites. Any suggestions?

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Re:Deco X20 Guest Network Won't Connect To Satellites Only Main Deco
a week ago

UPDATE: This seems to have had a simple solution to the Guest Network not assigning IP addresses while the Deco satellites are hooked to ethernet... While researching this problem, another thread here on the forums had the same exact issue I was having but with their X55 base and satellites, and they suggested they had solved the problem with restarting the main Deco base and the modem at the same time. To my surprise, doing that solved my problem too. I'm now getting IP addresses through the ethernet connected satellites. I have restarted the Deco base a number of times since installing it this weekend, but after the first modem restart right after installing the main Deco base, I'd not restarted the modem. The Deco app should warn everyone to restart their modem after turning ON (and/or probably OFF) the Guest Network. That would have saved me hours of fruitless problem solving. Hopefully this gets crawled by Google and helps anyone else that encounters this same issue.

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