CQ-18T WIFI IP

[Bill_2112Participant]

First post for me as I just picked up the new CQ-18T as my first ever A&H mixer.

The only problem I’ve noticed at this point is that when setting up the CQ as a WiFi Access Point the IP address is auto-assigned as 192.168.2.1, unless I’m just missing this. The problem is that I have two routers in the house and one of them uses this same 192.168.2.x/24 range and the conflicting IP creates all kinds of collisions. I am able to wire the CQ via ethernet and that works fine but being able to configure the onboard WiFi IP would be ideal. Beyond my personal home network I can absolutely see where running this at a venue could encounter the same situation without being able to configure this IP.

Thanks much!

[MatmahParticipant]

I know it would handy to be able to config the ip address, but can’t you change it on the other router as a work around?

[Mike CParticipant]

I guessing here but there more than likely is a set up menu to change the internal WIFI and ethernet settings.

The lowly Soundcraft UI series has that option.

[Bill_2112Participant]

@matmah, yes I could just change my router IP and use it as a workaround, but is seems like this would something pretty straight-forward to implement on the CQ.

[nottooloudParticipant]

If you’re using the access point, why is it connected to your local network?

[Bill_2112Participant]

It’s not connected to the local network, but because the CQ is set at 192.168.2.1 I’m experiencing collisions with my home router . I can work around it, but just seems like setting the IP is something that pretty easily could have been implemented on the CQ, and hopefully will be sometime.

[nottooloudParticipant]

How are you getting collisions without the networks seeing each other? Are you connecting a computer to both your home network and the mixer wifi?

[AdamsFlysParticipant]

I’m confused how you’re getting issues with the two devices having the same IP on different networks. Both networks are air gapped from each other, and so there shouldn’t be any sort of IP conflict, unless possibly you’re trying to connect to multiple networks from a single device, in which case would it not just make more sense to wire the cq anyway and have everything on the same network and talking to each other?

[glenndincnjParticipant]

The two posts above are correct.
Before an IP is attempted to be reached, the device needs to know what network/SSID it is connected to/working with. So you can have the same IP on both with no conflicts since the SSID the device is connecting to can only be set to one or the other. “BillsRouter1″/192.168.2.1 and “CQ-18T”/192.168.2.1 are different things (where what is in quotes is the SSID, not the Domain or something else…not sure exactly how to represent that correctly but that’s what I chose).
You didn’t try to name the two networks the same…meaning their SSIDs, did you? If you did, yeah that could cause some wonky stuff for sure I would think because you shouldn’t do that!

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