philupnorth
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Hi everyone
First off I am not an IT guy although I am trying to learn the basics
I bought a Unifi dream machine because I am converting my home to a smart home & need more access points than a normal router can provide. I tried setting up the dream machine yesterday & for the most part I got it working fine & it has a much greater range than my old setup which was Netgear Orbi with an old talktalk router acting as an access point. Everything seemed to work fine except that I have a number of WD NAS drives which I could no longer access with the dream machine connected. After a lot of frustration I ended up going back to my old setup while I try to figure it all out.
I think I have found the problem which is that my Orbi has assigned the NAS drives with IP addresses of 10.0.0.6, 10.0.0.12 etc. I would prefer not to have to reset the NAS drives as I have had difficulty in the past getting them to show up so I can map them as I don’t have the knowledge to do it easily & at least this way I know I can access them with my old setup.
Can I createp a wired network for 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.100 just for the NAS drives on the dream machine? I have 5 WD NAS drives & they have IP addresses ranging from 10.0.0.6 to 10.0.0.30 but if I set the range to 100 I’m covered for things in the future & might just keep all hard wired devices in that range
When I setup the dream machine I created an identical wireless network for smart home (IoT) & all my smart home devices connected to it without me having to go through setting them all up again so assume it might work if I create a network for my NAS drives but could do with some advice if my theory is incorrect
I’m working later today so I won’t be able to follow the topic & thank people for their input until tomorrow
Thanks
First off I am not an IT guy although I am trying to learn the basics
I bought a Unifi dream machine because I am converting my home to a smart home & need more access points than a normal router can provide. I tried setting up the dream machine yesterday & for the most part I got it working fine & it has a much greater range than my old setup which was Netgear Orbi with an old talktalk router acting as an access point. Everything seemed to work fine except that I have a number of WD NAS drives which I could no longer access with the dream machine connected. After a lot of frustration I ended up going back to my old setup while I try to figure it all out.
I think I have found the problem which is that my Orbi has assigned the NAS drives with IP addresses of 10.0.0.6, 10.0.0.12 etc. I would prefer not to have to reset the NAS drives as I have had difficulty in the past getting them to show up so I can map them as I don’t have the knowledge to do it easily & at least this way I know I can access them with my old setup.
Can I createp a wired network for 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.100 just for the NAS drives on the dream machine? I have 5 WD NAS drives & they have IP addresses ranging from 10.0.0.6 to 10.0.0.30 but if I set the range to 100 I’m covered for things in the future & might just keep all hard wired devices in that range
When I setup the dream machine I created an identical wireless network for smart home (IoT) & all my smart home devices connected to it without me having to go through setting them all up again so assume it might work if I create a network for my NAS drives but could do with some advice if my theory is incorrect
I’m working later today so I won’t be able to follow the topic & thank people for their input until tomorrow
Thanks