I recently moved to 3 story house and the situation is bit complicate
The internet is coming from 1st floor living room and I want to put MyCloud at the Basement and It connected with PowerLine Adapter. I tried the following cases but no luck. Could someone please give me any advice?
( ‘->’ means connected with CAT5e cable)
Livingroom Telus Internet Router LAN 1 → TP Link PowerLine Adapter (primary) Telus Internet Router LAN 2 → Google Wifi (primary)
Basement
– (Power Outlet) – TP Link PowerLine Adapter LAN 1 → MyCloud
– (Power Outlet) – TP Link PowerLine Adapter LAN 2 → AppleTV
With this combination,
(under Telus Internet Router’s wifi signal)
: can see & access MyCloud
(under Google Wifi’s signal)
: can NOT see MyCloud
: But I can access MyCloud through my AppleTV
So I tried another connection at last nigh… I moved MyCloud to next to Telus Internet router.
Livingroom Telus Internet Router LAN 1 → TP Link PowerLine Adapter (primary) Telus Internet Router LAN 2 → Google Wifi (primary) → MyCloud
Basement
– (Power Outlet) – TP Link PowerLine Adapter LAN 1 → AppleTV
– (Power Outlet) – TP Link PowerLine Adapter LAN 2 → Google Wifi (point1)
With this connection,
(under Telus Internet Router’s wifi signal)
: can NOT see MyCloud
(under Google Wifi’s signal)
: can see & access to MyCloud and can NOT access from AppleTV at the basement.
What I want is… I want to put MyCloud at the basement which connected through PowerLine Adapter. and at the same time I want to access to MyCloud through both Telus Router’s Wifi and Google’s.
A quick read of the Google WiFi blurb suggests it is supposed to be used with a modem, not a modem/router.
So your original system would have had two DHCP servers; one provided by the telus router, and one provided by the Google WiFi.
In your second setup, with the MyCloud connected to Google, it would have been on the Google subnet (like the Google WiFi); the second ethernet port on the Google is not a route-through from the telus…
In which case, you need to turn off the DHCP server in the Google WiFi, and make it act as a dumb WAP for the telus. The telus should be the DHCP server.
In that way, all devices connected either by wire (or wireless?) to the telus router, or by WiFi to the Google WAP, will all be on the same IP subnet, with IP addresses assigned by the telus router.
But for Google Wifi only allow to set the Bridge mode when use single wifi point. But I have 3 wifi points.
I am not sure how things going but I need experiment with below
Set my Telus Modem/Router to Bridge mode and turn off the wifi then connect primary Google Wifi to LAN 1 port.
Connect PowerLine adapter to Google’s LAN port.
(At my Basement), plug PowerLine Adapter to power outlet and check the signal.
That sounds plausible; you will effectively be using the telus as a simple modem, and everything else will then be chained off the primary Google WiFi, so should be on one subnet.
