The other day, one of my access points at home stopped communicating with our gateway. It is connected to the gateway via moca adapter over coax. I swapped the access point with another one and changed cables to no avail. Yet, when I connect the moca adapter directly to any endpoint (PC, console, etc.), they pull dhcp IP assignment and connect fine. It is only when an access point/router is connected that it drops connection.
I have other moca adapters and other access points in different parts of the house that all work fine. I’m an IT professional of 17 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this.
I’ve updated firmware on all applicable devices, tested coax signal strength successfully, tested same equipment and cabling on different coax lines successfully, made sure subnet/dhcp server had plenty of spare addresses in the pool.
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