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Does the WAP need to be directly connected to the gateway? See explanation below,
Sorry if this is a long description; with any luck, people here enjoy reading such things and solving problems.
I have my gateway in my basement. I have a wired receiver for the basement TV, and I don’t seem to have any issues here. I also have a WAP directly connected to the gateway, and this is paired to a wireless receiver for the upstairs TV. I occasionally have severe reception issues with the upstairs TV, and I suspect that the wireless connection is the culprit.
Given that the WAP is somewhat far from the wireless receiver, I sought to move it closer. My house is wired for ethernet, so I decided to connect my gateway to a nearby hub and then connect the WAP to the appropriate ethernet wall jack that was still in the basement, but much closer to the wireless receiver.
Things seemed promising at first. The “link” light on the WAP flashed green, which seemed to indicate that it was indeed connected to the gateway. When I turned on the upstairs TV, I was prompted to re-pair the wireless receiver and the WAP. When I did this, I got the “connection success” message, and all the applicable lights on the receiver lit up. However, when I tried to watch TV, I received the message “U-verse is not available at this time.” The only option was to restart the wireless receiver. However, upon restarting the wireless receiver, I was once again prompted to re-pair the receiver and the WAP, and this seemed to continue ad infinitum.
When I reconnected the WAP directly to the gateway and restarted the wireless receiver, I got the “connection success” message without having to go through the pairing process, and everything worked fine again.
So, what gives? Does the WAP need to be connected directly to the gateway for some bizarre reason? I have no reason to suspect that the ethernet wiring in my house is bad, so this should effectively be the same thing. I did one get the “a network setting has changed” message on my upstairs TV (and even once on my downstairs, wired TV) during the process, but it was usually just “U-verse is not available.)
Anyway, thanks for reading!
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JefferMC
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5 years ago
You stated that you connected the WAP to the Gateway via "a nearby hub." Could you be more specific about exactly what piece of equipment this is? Manufacturer name/model number wouldn't hurt. A "hub" is a rather loose term for a repeater, a device which has not normally been used much for the past 15 years.
I would expect that a WAP connected via a Gigabit or better Ethernet Switch would work fine, as long as you don't have any other Wireless Access Point / Router connected to that switch.
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MikeAC
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5 years ago
Well, in the "I really should have tried this first" department, I tried other wall ports in the house, and they all worked, so it seems that I just have a bad connection with one of them. It's a real shame, as the one I wanted to use is essentially directly below the TV and out of the way. I think I'll just have to be satisfied with the second-best location.
I checked out the wiring at the patch panel, and everything seems to be in order in the sense that there aren't any missing connections, so I imagine that the problem is somewhere between the panel and the wall port. Given that I'm not about to attempt to pull cable out of the wall, I guess we're done here.
Thanks again for you help!
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MikeAC
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5 years ago
By the way, I accepted your response as the answer for my question. In some sense, we didn't really solve my problem, but at least you helped me get over my wishful thinking on this one.
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