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Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

GreyAreaUK
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Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

Pretty much as subject...WTF? 10.1.1.x is a perfectly valid private IP range, but the Hub One just says "Nope".
Why? I really don't want to re-IP my network as I have a range of static and dynamic IPs
10.1.1.1-10.1.1.50 are static and assigned to computers, media players and my NAS (10.1.1.1 being the router)
10.1.1.51-10.1.1.250 are dynamic and used for phones, TVs, Blurry players etc.
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

this has been raised before, https://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,146302.0.html
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GreyAreaUK
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

Ah, so it has. Thank you.
It's kind of a moot point, as I intend to swap out the Hub One as soon as possible and replace it with a Draytek 2860 (latest firmware) but it just struck me as odd that it wouldn't accept a perfect good private IP range. Seems to be that it's a case of "It's reserved for...er...stuff"
Anonymous
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

I suspect the reasoning behind it is that as the network is so large and 'normally' used for internal commercial network addressing and as the product is deemed to be for the domestic market, your average user wouldn't need it.
GreyAreaUK
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

I'M NOT AVERAGE!  Smiley
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

If you look at advanced settings/IP Addresses you will see the first 0-64 range are not available, the same will apply if you try and manually set your own range, presumably, but I don't know, these are used by the BT WiFi guest network. 
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

Quote from: GreyAreaUK
I'M NOT AVERAGE!  Smiley

And I'm not deaf  Grin
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

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I'M NOT AVERAGE!  Smiley

I would think well over 90% of users use a class C subnet, whether from the 10.x.x.0 or 192.168.x.0 networks Wink
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ian007jen
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

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I would think well over 90% of users use a class C subnet, whether from the 10.x.x.0 or 192.168.x.0 networks Wink

I would think well over 90% of users use the default 192.168.x.x network  Tongue Tongue
Anonymous
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

I'll stand corrected but I am sure that 10.x.x.x/8 is a Class A network and 192.160.x.x/16 is a Class C
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

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Apologies if my notation was not understood though I did specify Class C, I tend to use addresses with trailing 0's to show a "network address" and omit the netmask detail Shocked  So 10.x.x.0/24 and 192.168.x.0/24
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Anonymous
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

I know what you mean, and since you referenced subnet in your OP then I assume you really mean : 10.x.x.0/16 and 192.168.x.0/16 to mask off the first pair of octets to leave you with .0.0 to .255.255
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

No, as a class C subnet is /24. For a class B (/16) subnet I would have used 10.x.0.0 and 192.168.0.0 Smiley
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No, as a class C subnet is /24. For a class B (/16) subnet I would have used 10.x.0.0 and 192.168.0.0


That's what i always thought but http://www.subnet-calculator.com/subnet.php?net_class=C says....
Class A addresses have their first octet in the range 1 to 126 (binary address begins with 0).
Class B addresses have their first octet in the range 128 to 191 (binary address begins with 10).
Class C addresses have their first octet in the range 192 to 223 (binary address begins with 110).


So a class C has to have a fist octet starting with 192....unless somebody else has more info....
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Re: Hub One won't let me use 10.1.1.x for my LAN IP range

It's a "common usage" problem, as it now commonly refers to the netmask which did not exist with the original definitions though it is a compatible extension of the meaning (class and implied netmask previously being determined by the first octet value). It also allows easy reference to sub-nets, which did not exist before netmasks, such as a class C sub-net of 10.x.x.x.
This (in my opinion) is unlike the misleading common usage of  "router" to include a modem-router when a modem has always provided a routing function, so modem for a modem-router would be more "accurate" - though still not justifiable Wink
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