Internal IP WiFi Addresses Changed After Almond+ Install

[Digital76]

Hey Guys,

I received my new Almond+ a couple weeks back and just got around to getting it setup the other night. I have to say, so far - I love it. I'm getting 80Mb / sec download and upload via my FiOS connection on the 5GHz band. I've never seen that kind of throughput on my iPhone before. Everything else is working very slick.

The one question I have - I am migrating from a pretty old Airport Extreme that assigned all wireless devices a 192.168.1.x IP address. All the devices on my network have an internal IP address of 192.168.1.x. After connecting the Almond+, all wireless devices are now being assigning a 10.10.10.x address. Everything works ok, but if I take my MacBook Pro off wired ethernet (192.168.1.x) to wireless on the Almond+ (10.10.10.x) I can no longer see my network devices (Printer, NAS, other computers, etc)

Is there a way I can manually change that in the Almond+ setup to start distributing 192.168.1.x addresses?

Thanks in advanced!

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Kevin

[The19th]

If you go to the Almond+ itself and use the LCD UI, you can go to Status, then Web Admin.

On a computer browser, log in as root (as described on the LCD Screen) and then click on Network and then change the IP Address to 192.168.1.1.

[Digital76]

Ok - I was able to change that easily enough. That brings up a couple more issues...

1. My Verizon FiOS router for all my hardwired devices (wifi radio is completely turned off) is on 192.168.1.1. All of my hardwired devices pull a 192.168.1.x IP address and connect just fine.

2. I changed the Almond+ to 192.168.1.2 (it was the next open IP after the FiOS router) and it immediately started dishing out 192.168.1.x IP addresses - Perfect! Except that none of the devices had internet connectivity. They were connected to the Almond+ with no issue, but no internet. Even the Almond+ itself failed the self-diagnostics. It said it had internet connectivity, but was unable to "sync to time server."

3. I switched the Almond+ back to 10.10.10.254 and everything went back to normal. Full internet connectivity, but again, wifi devices weren't able to see hardwired devices on the 192.168.1.x network.

What did I miss? Is there a conflict between the IP range the FiOS router is distributing and the range the Almond+ is distributing? Not sure where to go from here.

[LGNilsson]

You want to set up your FiOS router in bridge mode, i.e. it just operates as a dumb modem. Having two routers in the same network is generally not a great idea.
Alternatively you can set the Almond+ up in AP mode, but we have a bug that's affecting some units that we'll have a fix for in the next release, so you might want to hold off on this for now, just in case.