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Possible to connect NAS drive to google mesh

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  • 08-12-2023 12:04pm
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    ShatterProof
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    Hi at present I have vodafone broadband with a 1) a western digital NAS drive and 2) a google wifi mesh plugged directly into it.

    Both the wifi from the voadfone router and the google mesh are active.

    The NAS drive has a fixed IP address in the same the samre range as the the voadphone router 192.168.1.etc

    The google wifi mesh has a different ip range 192.168.86.etc

    When connected to voadfone wifi you cant see the devices connected on google wifi and vice versa so i want to move everything over to the google mesh. ( planning on chanhing from vodafone to digiweb)

    Is it possible to plug the NAS drive into the mesh deivce and have it available to the devices on that networks or do NAS devices have to go into router.

    current setup

    Existing.png


    is this possible ?

    possible.png


    Hope that makes sense.

    Thanks.



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    dam099
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    What kind of broadband do you have, FTTH or VDSL? If you have FTTH and don't use phone or TV from your ISP might be possible to eliminate the ISP router altogether and connect Google Wi-Fi Mesh directly to the ONT.

    https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9798157?hl=en




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    smuggler.ie
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    Alternatvely, set G mesh in the same IP range as your VF router and disable DHCP(both IPv4 and IPv6) on it. Use high numbers for nodes (192.168.1.250, .251. .252, ...)

    history of boards 2021




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    #4
    ShatterProof
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    FTTH with a phone.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121477535#Comment_121477535

    FTTH with a phone.



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    dam099
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭dam099


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121477997#Comment_121477997

    OK if you want to keep the phone then there are a few ways you could do it.

    a) Smuggler's method above

    b) Plug the Ethernet from the ONT into a cheap 5 port switch and plug both the ISP router and Google Mesh into the switch. You will need to configure the Google Mesh with the PPPoE credentials for your ISP. This worked for me on Vodafone and I have seen others report it works on Eir (I use a different 3rd party router but that shouldn't matter as long as your Google Mesh is up to date enough to do VLAN tagging).

    c) Switch off DHCP and WiFi on the ISP router and set the Google Mesh's IP as the DMZ on the ISP Router



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