Intermittent wired/wireless connection

Digilog · Mar 23, 2025

borgy said:
When I use Asus device discovery both ap devices have different ip's when I access the ap IP logins it doesn't give me an option to change the way the IP is

on the wireless device itself like the Xbox. Wireless clients

Problem I see after reading your first post, you put the isp router into modem mode and ran one wire to the living room AP and another wire via moca to another. Which its probably only going to service two ip adresses. You need to move the wire you have via moca to the living room or put the isp router back into router mode and the asus routers in AP mode.

The isp is probably running software that if it sees multiple ips on a consumer not paying for multiple outside ip addresses it kicks the older one of these ip address from the modem. The error "invalid response in V4 option" usually means a dhcp server is trying to assign an address but the device is not on its network or network layer.

borgy · Wednesday at 2:58 PM

Digilog said:
on the wireless device itself like the Xbox. Wireless clients

Problem I see after reading your first post, you put the isp router into modem mode and ran one wire to the living room AP and another wire via moca to another. Which its probably only going to service two ip adresses. You need to move the wire you have via moca to the living room or put the isp router back into router mode and the asus routers in AP mode.

The isp is probably running software that if it sees multiple ips on a consumer not paying for multiple outside ip addresses it kicks the older one of these ip address from the modem. The error "invalid response in V4 option" usually means a dhcp server is trying to assign an address but the device is not on its network or network layer.

Thankyou for the response. I'm thinking this also so I guess there is no solution

borgy · Wednesday at 2:58 PM

ive just noticed this in the main routers log?

Digilog · Wednesday at 3:08 PM

borgy said:
Thankyou for the response. I'm thinking this also so I guess there is no solution

the solution is to wire the network correctly or lease a static ip for the 2nd router because very few ISP allow more than one DCHP address.
Wiring is going to b cheaper than leasing a static ip address on a yearly basis.

EDit: the other solution is to put the virgin modem/router back into router mode and the other routers put in AP mode so they act like a switch+wifi.

ColinTaylor · Wednesday at 3:08 PM

borgy said:
Thankyou for the response. I'm thinking this also so I guess there is no solution

Is your living room router in "router mode" or "AP mode"?

Is the MoCA adapter in your house connected to the living room router or the Virgin Media Hub?

borgy said:
ive just noticed this in the main routers log?

Again, this indicates that you have lost connection to the internet. Did you contact Virgin Media about this?

borgy · Wednesday at 3:18 PM

ColinTaylor said:
Is your living room router in "router mode" or "AP mode"?

Is the MoCA adapter in your house connected to the living room router or the Virgin Media Hub?

Again, this indicates that you have lost connection to the internet. Have you contacted Virgin Media about this?

It's in router mode. As I put the virgin one into modem mode as I get better signal with the Asus.

And no I haven't had time but I will. I guess I just explain the drop out?

Digilog · Wednesday at 3:19 PM

borgy said:
ive just noticed this in the main routers log?

yes because the system hands out one dhcp like they normally do. So what its been doing is disconnecting one router to service the other.

ColinTaylor · Wednesday at 3:19 PM

Is the MoCA adapter in your house connected to the living room router or the Virgin Media Hub?

Digilog · Wednesday at 3:20 PM

borgy said:
It's in router mode. As I put the virgin one into modem mode as I get better signal with the Asus.

signal? don't use the wifi in the isp router then and just use it as the wired router.

borgy · Wednesday at 3:21 PM

ColinTaylor said:
Is the MoCA adapter in your house connected to the living room router or the Virgin Media Hub?

The coax comes from the inlet to the house into a 3 ways splitter. Which goes into the back of the virgin router and the ethernet out goes into the Asus living room router

borgy · Wednesday at 3:22 PM

Digilog said:
signal? don't use the wifi in the isp router then and just use it as the wired router.

Yes that's why it's in modem mode? To feed the Asus router next to it

ColinTaylor · Wednesday at 3:25 PM

borgy said:
The coax comes from the inlet to the house into a 3 ways splitter. Which goes into the back of the virgin router and the ethernet out goes into the Asus living room router

I wanted to know what device your MoCA adapter is plugged into.

borgy · Wednesday at 3:27 PM

ColinTaylor said:
I wanted to know what device your MoCA adapter is plugged into.

Into the virgin one mate I had to have a look lol

Digilog · Wednesday at 3:29 PM

borgy said:
Yes that's why it's in modem mode? To feed the Asus router next to it

Interesting, I thought you said both routers was in a different room from the modem.
So it looks like you need to set the upstairs one to AP mode and plug the moca transceiver into the router next to the modem.

borgy · Wednesday at 3:33 PM

Digilog said:
Interesting, I thought you said both routers was in a different room from the modem.
So it looks like you need to set the upstairs one to AP mode and plug the moca transceiver into the router next to the modem.

Yeah so the upstairs one and the one in the garage are both in ap mode. The one in the garage I have put the other moca device there as I have a coax inlet in my garage.

So what I've done is connected the upstairs ap and the garage ap via ethernet

Digilog · Wednesday at 3:40 PM

borgy said:
Yeah so the upstairs one and the one in the garage are both in ap mode. The one in the garage I have put the other moca device there as I have a coax inlet in my garage.

So what I've done is connected the upstairs ap and the garage ap via ethernet

so all you have to do is plug that network branch into the asus router that is connected to the isp router/modem.
or put them all into AP mode and switch the isp router back into router mode, but disable its wireless.

The isp router is not better nor worse than these Asus routers when it comes to wired networking.

borgy · Wednesday at 3:43 PM

Digilog said:
so all you have to do is plug that network branch into the asus router that is connected to the isp router/modem.
or put them all into AP mode and switch the isp router back into router mode, but disable its wireless.

The isp router is not better nor worse than these Asus routers when it comes to wired networking.

When you say connect it to the network branch on the Asus, how so? I'm not clued up on all of this. In fact I'm useless I use my hands not my brain lol

so I quickly drew this. This is how downstairs is set up

ColinTaylor · Wednesday at 3:54 PM

borgy said:
Into the virgin one mate I had to have a look lol

The MoCA adapter should be plugged into one of the Asus router's LAN ports.

Just to be clear, the coax cable connecting your two MoCA adapters is not connected to anything else? It's a dedicated point to point connection?

borgy · Wednesday at 3:57 PM

ColinTaylor said:
The MoCA adapter should be plugged into one of the Asus router's LAN ports.

Just to be clear, the coax cable connecting your two MoCA adapters is not connected to anything else? It's a dedicated point to point connection.

It goes into the virgin media TV box also, 3 way splitter

ColinTaylor · Wednesday at 4:04 PM

borgy said:
It goes into the virgin media TV box also, 3 way splitter

That might cause problems depending on the particular MoCA adapters you're using. We'll see. But you must only plug the living room MoCA adapter into the Asus router's LAN port (because the VM Hub is in modem mode).

The alternative would be to change the VM Hub back to router mode (with Wi-Fi disabled) and put the Asus in the living room into AP mode. Then it wouldn't matter whether the MoCA adapter was plugged into the Hub or the Asus.

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