[just_a_goat2]

Sorry if I wasn’t clear , we didn’t switch ISP, we switched from Cable to Fibre. The Internet would regularly slow down to 1 mb or less, devices would then report no internet. I think my family thought that the device were disconnecting from Wifi but it was probably showing disconnecting from Internet. The router would still show connected. It would be useful to have access to some basic tools from the PCWRT interface (speedtest, ping).

After a lot of troubleshooting including 2 hours today and a couple of factory reset of the ADTRAN, Bell is sending one of their technicians as they finally accepted that the issue isn’t my equipment.

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The devices are also disconnecting from the WiFi on some occasion but not as often as no Internet (they generally have full bars except if they are on 5 ghz then they lose a bar – transfer rates are still in the 400-600 mb). Some are connected to the PCWRT, others to the second AP. This has only started since switching to Fibre and switching the location of each router.

• This reply was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by just_a_goat2.
• This reply was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by just_a_goat2.

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As it turns out I can’t, the Fibre router turns off all ports except LAN port 1 (1GB) when in Bridge mode, so no possibility of multiple trunks. What is worse, why are they not using the 2.5 GB port?

Even if it was using it, it wouldn’t help me as the PW-AX1800 is limited to 1 Gb as well. I’ll be downgrading to 1 Gb service as soon as it’s available.

• This reply was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by just_a_goat2.

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I have a 1.5gb service, the PW-AX1800 only has 1 gb ports, can I connect multiple ports from the Fibre router (bridge mode) to the PW to provide full access?

[just_a_goat2]

Sorry for the delay in responding, I switched my service to Fibre and it took a while for things to settle down.

As part of that process, I reset the router to default and re-established all the settings and low and behold… it’s working. I can now ping between the VLANs as expected, using the VPN with no profile does block the internet although I still think it should be an option in the Network Tab VLAN grid 😉

Next Step:
I have a Hubitat hub that I use for some of the IoT radio based devices. I would like it to be part of the IoT VLAN. If I understand correctly, I have to connect it to the LAN 1 port and use the dropdown menu for Port 1 (Network tab) to select X1. This should add all the devices from the Hubitat hub to the X1 VLAN and they won’t have access to the Internet, correct?

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Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
ping: sendto: Host is down

[just_a_goat2]

I got the ping partially working, forgot to turn off the security “Block Ping”. However, I can ping from LAN to X1 but not X1 to LAN. ´\O/`

• This reply was modified 5 months ago by just_a_goat2.

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Dang, I thought I had it but it was just a ruse ;-). I addded a device to X1 and tried to connect to it from the laptop on LAN but it wasn’t working. So I connected my laptop to X1 and I was able to connect to it. I tried to connect to the router at 10.x.x.1 and I was able to login to the console. Tried to connect to the laptop’s IP from another computer on the LAN but it wouldn’t connect, ping, nothing.

In order to troubleshoot, I set X1 to plain settings (removed the VPN), then opened the connection to the LAN

______LAN____Guest____X1
LAN____X_______X______X_____
Guest__-_______X______-_____
X1_____X_______-______X_____

If I understand the logic of the UI, I should be able to connect to devices on LAN from X1 and X1 devices from LAN and both should be able to access the Internet. However, that is not what I get.

Only devices on the LAN has Internet access, it can’t connect/ping devices on X1 and devices on X1 can only connect to devices on X1 and not Internet.

This seems like there is a NAT problem but I can’t see where I can set rules to allow traffic between the VLANs (I assume that this is done with the UI).

What am I missing?

Also, is it possible to have the same IP Range between specific VLANs but not all ie DHCP across the VLANs.It’s not required but would simplify some device configurations.

[just_a_goat2]

I just found a post from someone else asking to add VLAN to Profiles. Support posted that it would be confusing to us. So how about adding a VLAN WAN option? That way you could turn on which VLAN can be reached from WAN and which VLAN can connect to WAN.

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Is there a way to maybe add the VLAN to a profile? If not, is this something that could be added in the future? It would negate the need to add 100+ devices to the profile.

If not, could I install another AP dedicated to IoT, connect it to the CISCO switch (Layer 2) on LAN 3 and create a rule on the switch to allow devices on the LAN to access devices on the AP yet block access from AP to the LAN and internet.

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