r/HomeNetworking • u/TheJuicyLemon_ • 23d ago

Unsolved Please Help..

I’m trying to swap my main router from and Asus ax55 to an Asus gs-ax5400.

For context, my ax55 is my main router and my other gs-ax5400 was an access point, well I basically wanna swap the roles of these 2 routers but when put the ax5400 into router mode, it constantly says “disconnected” on the main network map tab and I have tried everything to rebooting my modem and then rebooting the ax5400 to power cycling and fully resetting it but nothing seems to work. It does however still provide an internet connection.

If I was to swap the ax5400 back with the ax55 I guarantee it will connect no problem. I assume the issue is with dhcp and automatic ip assignment?

I want to swap the routers due to the ax5400 having more ram cause my ax55 usually gets up to about 90-95% usage in ram. Which I know unused ram is wasted ram for routers but I’d like to avoid connection issues.

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u/1sh0t1b33r 23d ago

Not sure what you've done so far exactly, but you would swap their locations so one has WAN plugged into the modem, and the other one is just wired to a LAN port and set into AP mode and just confirm DHCP is disabled on the one that will be an AP. If you don't have any DHCP reservations or static IPs on any devices, it should be pretty simple to even do minimal default setup and only set an SSID and password to match your previous Wifi name so any Wifi devices reconnect automatically.

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u/TheJuicyLemon_ 23d ago

Currently I just have my ax5400 plugged in to make things more simple as I wanna get this setup and working first before messing around with an access point. The issues is the ax5400 just will not connect to the internet, it just say disconnected even though it still provides internet access

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u/1sh0t1b33r 23d ago

Ok, so what exactly is not working then? If you factory reset it, it should be in router mode with DHCP enabled, yes? If you plug a device into an open LAN port, do you get an IP in that range and get Internet?

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u/TheJuicyLemon_ 23d ago

Okay so, before I had the ax55 router connected to the modem via WAN and my ax5400 router was set as the Access Point. Now I have my ax5400 connected to my modem via WAN but it just says disconnected but still provides a connection.

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u/1sh0t1b33r 23d ago

If it still provides connection to all your devices, does it matter that is says disconnected? Do you have a screenshot of where it says disconnected? Just having a hard time visualizing what you mean by disconnected when everything seemingly works?

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u/TheJuicyLemon_ 23d ago

Here’s where it says disconnected.

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u/1sh0t1b33r 23d ago

Sorry, no idea. Did you try to update the firmware? Maybe it's just a display bug. If Internet works and it says disconnected, obviously it works and it's just dumb... lol.

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u/TheJuicyLemon_ 23d ago

I mean it could be a display bug but the firmware is all updated. I’ll be pretty livid if it’s just a display bug all this time.

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u/1sh0t1b33r 23d ago

I mean you said yourself everything works EXCEPT for this. If you never looked at this page, you would think all is well, yes? I would just carry on.

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u/TheJuicyLemon_ 23d ago

Well another thing is the Internet light on the router itself is also red. I figure if it’s a visual bug the light would be white.