Hi there,
I am sorry if this sounds a little pedestrian, but I'm not quite sure about all the proper terminology.
My problem is as follows. I have a router that I received fro my internet provider which allows me to connect up to 10 wifi devices over the network. Between my computer and two phones, I have already used up 3 spots, but have a total of 20 Xiaomi / Yeelight products (mainly light bulbs) that I would like to use throughout my house. Since my router lets me only connect 10 devices, I'm a little stuck here.
Any suggestions on what I can do?
And I'm likely to only add to my yeelight products over time, so if anything the requirement for more devices to be connected will only increase.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
And sorry if this is a silly question or if there is a really obvious answer, but I don't really know much about these things.
Thanks
Xiaomi / Yeelight Products Maxed out My Router, Using up Wi-Fi Connected Device Allowance. Any Solutions
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Get another Wireless Access Point, and plug that into your router.
Do not get a second router.
@Drew22 Do you know how many devices I can connect to a wireless access point?
Most reasonable APs can do 30-100 clients without breaking a sweat, particularly as your devices wouldn't use much bandwidth.
With a Ubiquiti UniFi AP, you could run multiple SSIDs on different channels to handle more devices.
+1 for ubiquiti unifi
Although that'll only solve the problem if it's not DHCP related (some crappy routers can only hand out so many addresses. My old Netgear d6300 could only handle 10 reserved IPs!)
Just get a UniFi Access Point
What model modem/router do you have at present? Solution may be as easy as increasing the size of your DHCP pool.
I've got the one from MyRepublic that I got when I signed up with them last month
What model is it? We could help by looking up the manual and letting you know how to increase the DHCP scope/pool.
OP: Using your terminology in your original post, what we're doing is seeing if we can increase the number of "spots" that your modem/router has available for all your devices.
Most routers can only handle a max amount of clients especially consumer grade
@asa79: I realise that but they often don't have a hard limit of clients per SSID - nothing wrong with the OP trying to extend the DHCP scope first before having to cough up for a new router
@bdl this is the one I've got given to me by my internet provider:
https://mrau-web-02.s3.amazonaws.com/au/wp-content/uploads/2…@Benny123: OK it looks like a Technicolor TG789vac v2. Manual here
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1265861/Technicolor-Tg789v…Try this
- Open a web browser
- Go to http://192.168.1.1 and login with admin as username and password
- Looking at page 51 of the manual (section 4.3.5) - can you see the (Home network?) -> Local Settings -> "DHCP Settings" option referred to at https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1265861/Technicolor-Tg789v… ? You may need to click the "Show advanced" button.
- If so, what do the DHCP start and end settings say? They may have a range of 192.168.1.something to 192.168.1.something. It may look like this: http://setuprouter.com/router/technicolor/tg789vac/lan-72129…
@bdl: Thanks so much, I will try and do this at home tonight and let you know. Thanks again for helping me with this!
@Benny123: no worries, if you can find the section, increase the last number of the "end" if the range by twenty
I'm also thinking - would a smart hub like Amazon echo or something like that solve my problem? Could I then simply connect all my xiaomi products to the echo and therefore free up my router? Or is that something else entirely?
Echo isnt an Access Point
Philips has a hub, and I think Xiaomi does too.
So all the lights connect to the hub and the hub connects to WiFi
I bought the Xiaomi wifi extenders for under $10 to connect my lights to. Works pretty well AFAIK.
I think the problem is not the range, but that my router only allows me to connect 10 devices to it, but I've got around 20 Xiaomi products.
Any decent router shouldnt place a restriction on the number of devices that connects to it. As someone said, try getting an Asus AC68u or similar.
Yeah, I'm cheap so I didn't buy another router. I did buy the extenders only for the 16 devices they added, as they are their own AP.
@Tihocan Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does that mean that if I buy their wifi extender I can connect my 15 or so light globes directly to that instead of to my router and therefore free up my router a little bit?
extender only extenders the range doesnt increase the amount of clients
I had same issue with billion router max 16 clients, have since replaced with unifi ac pro and not looked back
Probably best to just get another router and connect it to the old modem/router.
Change or disable the old ssid and assign the new router the old ssid. You won't need to change any thing on the yeelights/computer/phones.
I recommend ac68u.