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Car won't connect to wifi

Emilie190 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:32:03 GMT

I have just bought a Leapmotor B05 and it won't connect to my wifi. A google search has told me that it doesn't like certain IP addresses. I have reset the router to generate a new IP address and it still won't connect. I have tried connecting to both the 5Ghz and the regular one. Can anyone help?

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Gel — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:34:10 GMT

Best ask on a Leapmotor forum👌

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Emilie190 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:43:21 GMT

Thanks. I have done that as well but the plusnet customer service man told me to post on here so thought I would try!

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Dan_the_Van — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:29:58 GMT

@Emilie190

connecting your Leapmotor B05 to you home internet doesn't sound correct to me.

For my Kia I have a "Kia Connect App" this connects to my car using the Kia cloud for which I have an account linked to my vehicle. The Kia App uses a WiFi connection to either my home internet connection or mobile data when I am away from home to remotely control the car.

Research suggests there is a "Leapmotor App" which I assume would work in the same way.

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Mav — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:43:08 GMT

@Dan_the_Van @Emilie190

From my understanding of the Nissan Connect Services my Qashqai acts like a WiFi hotspot with a very limited signal and does require an app to comnunicate with the 'outside' world and not directly to a router.

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Baldrick1 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:46:19 GMT

I’m totally confused now. My Toyota has an app but the car is also connected to my home WiFi when I am at home.

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

MisterW — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:46:53 GMT

Seems like the Leapmotor connects to a wifi network to download OTA updates. Most cars do that with their internal systems!

There's also anecdotal evidence that the B05 doesnt like connecting to a network using the 192.168.1.x subnet, possibly because it conflicts with its internal network. If that's the case then its an awful design since a vast number of off-the-shelf/ISP routers default to that subnet!

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

PhilipHeyes — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:50:59 GMT

What does the handbook show as the way to enable and connect Wi-Fi ?

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Mav — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:57:12 GMT

I'm also confused, then. Made sure the app is logged into my car while at home and is definitely direct to car and not through the router as doesn't show in devices at all (neither 2.4 or 5 Ghz).

Leads me to believe each manufacturer has its own system?

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Mav — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:02:14 GMT

Hadn't seen @MisterW post.

My Qashqai doesn't need to connect to a router for updates. In fact, I can't anyway.

I can connect it to my Phone's Hotspot when it's own signal is too weak if I want to watch a movie on the display which is much bigger that the phone's.

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Emilie190 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:29:14 GMT

Yes it's really stupid. What is more concerning is that I have reset the router to generate a new IP address and it still isn't working. It will connect to mobile hot-spot but that doesn't seem good enough it install the software update. Very frustrating!

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Emilie190 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:31:44 GMT

Unfortunately it is not done through the app with leapmotor but directly through the car, but seems to be incompatible with the IP address. A really stupid design!

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Townman — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:19:02 GMT

@Emilie190

If this is true: There's also anecdotal evidence that the B05 doesnt like connecting to a network using the 192.168.1.x subnet, possibly because it conflicts with its internal network.

Then messing with the router but doing anything less than changing its DHCP LAN address pool (a messy job) is not going to fix this issue.

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Baldrick1 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:05:07 GMT

@Townman wrote:

Then messing with the router but doing anything less than changing its DHCP LAN address pool (a messy job) is not going to fix this issue.

Can you not use a WiFi extender or WAP that uses a different default pool?

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Townman — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:09:45 GMT

@Baldrick1

That’s a creative thought! A WiFi extender will not help as that just extends the WiFi range. A WiFi AP can be configured to pass through DHCP or run its own DHCP / subnet … but that will result in a double NAT which in some circumstances is problematic.

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Baldrick1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:12:22 GMT

@Townman wrote:

@Baldrick1

That’s a creative thought! A WiFi extender will not help as that just extends the WiFi range.

I was having a senior moment and confusing SSID with IP address. Another option would be to try a Hub that uses a different range. For example, FRITZ!box use 192.168.178.xxx by default.

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

ExForce9 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:34:55 GMT

@Baldrick1 wrote:

Another option would be to try a Hub that uses a different range. For example, FRITZ!box use 192.168.178.xxx ...

Rather than using a different router just to change the LAN subnet,

surely you should be able to change the Plusnet Hub Two to use a different range ?

From other forum posts, the settings appear to be under - Advanced settings > My Network > IPv4 configuration

For instance, changing from the default 192.168.1.x LAN subnet to random example 192.168.123.x

You'd have to do something like -

Change the IP address of the router from 192.168.1.254 to 192.168.123.254

AND

change the DHCP range from 192.168.1.64-192.168.1.253 to 192.168.123.64–192.168.123.253

AND

Save the changes at the same time, and then reboot the router.

All the networked devices that connect via DHCP should pickup their new network address after a restart,

but devices with static LAN IP addresses (such as networked printers) will need their IP address manually changed (possibly before changing the router's subnet ?)

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

ExForce9 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:28:34 GMT

@Emilie190 wrote:

A google search has told me that it doesn't like certain IP addresses.

I have reset the router to generate a new IP address and it still won't connect.

The IP addresses it doesn't like are in the 192.168.1.x range which is the default LAN subnet of the Plusnet Hub Two.

Resetting or rebooting the router WON'T change the LAN IP subnet that the car connects to, but might change the WAN (internet) IP address of your router if your account has a dynamically allocated address.

So it is no surprise that resetting the router made no difference.

Re: Car won't connect to wifi

Dan_the_Van — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:17:20 GMT

@Emilie190

Here is what the Advanced settings page will look like if you have changed the IP Address to 192.168.0.nnn range.

You have to change the DHCP address range before changing the Hub gateway address. Don't forget to save changes.

If all goes wrong just reset the Hub using the factory reset pin hole.