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Review on VONETS VAP11G-300: 2.4G WiFi Bridge & Repeater/AP Extender for Ethernet πŸ” Conversion & Hotspot; Ideal for PLC, IP Camera, Printer, and Medical/Network Devices by Don Kishore

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Not the easiest setup, here is my cookbook

I need this to connect to a pair of wired ethernet printers for a restaurant application. Not sure if I'll put a switch behind it or just get another one for the second printer. They're pretty cheap. I must have factory reset the device more than 6 times while working with manual settings. To reconfigure it and make it easy, plug it into your computer's Ethernet port and plug in the USB power adapter. Connection, enable airplane mode (WLAN disabled), go to IPV4 properties for wired Ethernet on your computers, disable DHCP, set your computer's address to 192.168.254.1 and the gateway on the device to 192.168.254.254 . Once I did that, after restarting the device using the reset button, I was able to access the login page (192.165.254.254) quickly and easily. My mifi network is 192.168.1.xxx. I found this out when I gave the device a static IP address of 192.168.1.254 (outside the DHCP range) and set the gateway and DNS server in the device to 192.168.1.1 (router) after rebooting the device started and connected to the wireless network, I could easily access, update and manage it from 192.168.1.254 through my MiFi. Don't do too many tweaks until it works the first time and download and update to the latest firmware (April 2019) as the saved configuration file will become unusable. The update also says that you need to reset the device to a new factory setting (via the button on the back) for the update to take full effect. Set admin password, restarted device and reset my IPv4 computer to DHCP, everything works fine now: my computer gets a DHCP address from the router through the device. and I can access and manage the hotspot if I need it in the future. I will update this when we get the device up and running. Much luck!

Pros
  • Great for me
Cons
  • frequency