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afaleedsVM
Tuning in
20 days ago

Hub 4 router doesn’t list devices connected to wifi extender.

Please help. I just installed a wifi extender upstairs and connected my cctv DVR to it by cable. The hub 4 lists the extender as connected to my router wifi and gave it an IP address but hub 4 does not list the DVR as a connected device even though the hub 4 did assigned an IP address to the DVR which I can see in the DVR settings but I can not do port forwarding for the DVR until the hub 4 lists the DVR as a connected device. 

any advice please on how to fix this.

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  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person
    20 days ago

    Is the extender a VM Pod?  If not the Hub may not be able to access the extender hardware and discover any connected devices.

    I would have thought if you know the IP address of the DVR, you should be able to do port forwarding?  Have you tried assigning a Reserved DHCP address?

    • afaleedsVM's avatar
      afaleedsVM
      Tuning in
      19 days ago

      Thank you. How do I do that if the hub 4 router is not even listing the DVR  as a connected device

  • Client62's avatar
    Client62
    Alessandro Volta
    20 days ago

    For a VM Hub to know what is attached to the Wi-Fi extender, the Wi-Fi extender must be configured so as to passes the DHCP request from the DVR etc back to the VM Hub.

    i.e. the Wi-Fi extender must not perform NAT or DHCP or behave like a Router.

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person
    19 days ago

    Had a quick look at the manual and can't see any way to change the IP addresses to the 192.168.0.xxx range?