This drives me crazy, I am employed as a teacher but as nobody else at my school has any clue about I.T. stuff I end up getting asked to solve all kinds of mysterious problems, all of which leave me with no time to deal with my own job because frankly, I'm a little out of my depth and usually don't see any clear solution.
In this case, we have several iPads which up to last month connected to our wifi router with no trouble. Recently we added 9 new iPad minis to the staff equipment. Now one of the original iPads (and a couple of others) can't connect. Others including mine are fine. Problem iPads can still connect at our other locations.
The wifi router is just consumer grade, a Buffalo thing - its set up in Bridge mode and connected to the main NTT router just to allow us to wirelessly connect our iPads, no other reason. I can access the wifi Buffalo router settings but not the NTT one (dont know the password).
Just for clarity, Buffalo is IP address 192.168.8.8. NTT is 192.168.8.1.
In the Buffalo active client list, I can see my own iPads MAC address but not any of those with trouble (naturally). DHCP settings on the wifi router are all set to auto, and I dont see any MAC filtering or limited numbers of IP addresses, but as I understand it being in Bridge mode makes all those settings redundant, right? There are 14 wireless clients showing up in the router, and 5 or 6 wired clients. Is that too many for a consumer grade wifi router to handle?
The 192.168.8.1 router is showing up as the DNS server on my correctly connected iPad. Is it that one which would be limiting the IP addresses (if there is a limit?). That doesn't make sense to me though because my own iPad can connect, and I get to the office after the guy who can't, so surely he would be allocated an IP address before me.
Any help would be much appreciated, I am baffled and I owe the company big time after trashing their valuable property (see irks thread).
In this case, we have several iPads which up to last month connected to our wifi router with no trouble. Recently we added 9 new iPad minis to the staff equipment. Now one of the original iPads (and a couple of others) can't connect. Others including mine are fine. Problem iPads can still connect at our other locations.
The wifi router is just consumer grade, a Buffalo thing - its set up in Bridge mode and connected to the main NTT router just to allow us to wirelessly connect our iPads, no other reason. I can access the wifi Buffalo router settings but not the NTT one (dont know the password).
Just for clarity, Buffalo is IP address 192.168.8.8. NTT is 192.168.8.1.
In the Buffalo active client list, I can see my own iPads MAC address but not any of those with trouble (naturally). DHCP settings on the wifi router are all set to auto, and I dont see any MAC filtering or limited numbers of IP addresses, but as I understand it being in Bridge mode makes all those settings redundant, right? There are 14 wireless clients showing up in the router, and 5 or 6 wired clients. Is that too many for a consumer grade wifi router to handle?
The 192.168.8.1 router is showing up as the DNS server on my correctly connected iPad. Is it that one which would be limiting the IP addresses (if there is a limit?). That doesn't make sense to me though because my own iPad can connect, and I get to the office after the guy who can't, so surely he would be allocated an IP address before me.
Any help would be much appreciated, I am baffled and I owe the company big time after trashing their valuable property (see irks thread).
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