problem forwarding ports and range extender

[damnlazers 0]

Good evening to all, today I started to explore this "emby" world. I created a media server to share with some of my friends; however they had some problems in the connection to the server from the beginning. But, I followed the tutorial and, opening the router's ports, my friends managed to connect to my server. Now, i try to explain: i forwarded the ports for the local IP address of my range extender and NOT for my main router, so, just going from a room to another, and automatically switching the connection to my main router,  the others cannot connect to the server anymore, because i can't open the same ports for two different locals IP. Any possible solution? Something to "pretend" to open the ports for both the ip addresses? Thank you for your time, 

Mauro

[Carlo 4561]

Hi,

Not sure I follow you.  A range extender shouldn't have any ports to open as it's just a WIFI extender not a router.  Port forwarding is part of firewall setup between the WAN and LOCAL side.

Can you elaborate more what setup you have in place?

[damnlazers 0]

34 minutes ago, cayars said:

Hi,

Not sure I follow you.  A range extender shouldn't have any ports to open as it's just a WIFI extender not a router.  Port forwarding is part of firewall setup between the WAN and LOCAL side.

Can you elaborate more what setup you have in place?

Hi, thanks for answering!

The local IP address changes when I switch my connection to the wifi extender. The problem is: I cannot forward the same port for more than one local IP address. 

Ip address goes to "unknown" when i'm not connected, but it is 192.168.1.224. I tried to open the same port through keeping the same LAN port and changing just the WAN. Didn't work 

 

Edited November 10, 2020 by damnlazers

[Carlo 4561]

What you're describing should not happen.  It sounds like the "extender" is in router mode and possibly using it's own NAT.  I'd run through the setup on the extender and make sure it's setup as an extender which means no DCHP or routing on that device.

[gigigigi 0]

10 hours ago, cayars said:

What you're describing should not happen.  It sounds like the "extender" is in router mode and possibly using it's own NAT.  I'd run through the setup on the extender and make sure it's setup as an extender which means no DCHP or routing on that device.

ok, I tried setting DCHP on off (it was on automatic), but still the same. I forwarded the ports for my router IP address, and now if the server is connected through the range extender, external access are denied. I can see the ip changing in the main configuration page 

[damnlazers 0]

28 minutes ago, gigigigi said:

ok, I tried setting DCHP on off (it was on automatic), but still the same. I forwarded the ports for my router IP address, and now if the server is connected through the range extender, external access are denied. I can see the ip changing in the main configuration page 

(It was me by my friend's account sorry)

[Carlo 4561]

6 hours ago, gigigigi said:

ok, I tried setting DCHP on off (it was on automatic), but still the same. I forwarded the ports for my router IP address, and now if the server is connected through the range extender, external access are denied. I can see the ip changing in the main configuration page 

It's not a matter of just DHCP but this "range extender" is setup wrong and running in the wrong mode.  IT's not range extending.

[rbjtech 5284]

As @cayars has said - a wifi range extender should just extend the wifi-range using the EXISTING wifi/lan setup that is already in place.

So as your LAN/wifi is 192.168.1.x - so should all the traffic passing via the extender.  

You may have it set to an 'AP' mode (Access Point) or something like that - you basically need it in 'Extender' mode where all you need to set, is the existing Wifi details.

Then your previous Emby port forwarding on your normal router will work just fine.

Edited November 10, 2020 by rbjtech

[damnlazers 0]

2 hours ago, rbjtech said:

You may have it set to an 'AP' mode (Access Point) or something like that - you basically need it in 'Extender' mode where all you need to set, is the existing Wifi details.

 

2 hours ago, cayars said:

It's not a matter of just DHCP but this "range extender" is setup wrong and running in the wrong mode.  IT's not range extending.

This is my wifi-extender setup. Hope it's understandable! Second screenshot is: change mode: -access point, -range extender

 

When i connect to that, LAN address on the emby server changes and it's like i never port-forwarded (cause it seems it's valid just for one LAN address).

[Carlo 4561]

Could you change the language to English and post new screen shots?

[pwhodges 2012]

I note that the extender settings display the SSID with "extender" on the end of it.  Surely the SSID should be the same as the original, which presumably does not have that?

Paul

[rbjtech 5284]

https://static.tp-link.com/res/down/doc/TL-WA850RE(EU)_V2_UG.pdf

The setup looks very simple - if you have WPS on your main router/wifi - then press it, followed by the wps on the extender.  Job done.

Do not choose a different SSID name if you do it manually - choose the SAME SSID, then clients can connect to either/or AP as they wish.

The backhaul network will be the same, regardless of the number of AP's - so any port forwarding will then work without any issues.