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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Brands shouldn't matter much. I have heard of conflicts if you have two routers on the same network. They fight over assigning IP addresses by DHCP and it gets messy. Switches just kind of do as they're told and don't have much to say in the process.
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I've had a few instances where low-end routers like the Linksys 160n that have been setup to give out DHCP would run into conflicts with other routers like Belkin, Netgear....even if the DHCP would be turned off on on them.
As if the Belkin and Netgear routers wouldn't allow the DHCP to be passed through.
Maybe disabling the firewall would have helped, as they were just in place for wireless and nothing else.
I think there is something to it. If you run higher end hardware like a Sonicwall as the gateway and the device that gives out DHCP, other routers on the network don't seem to create conflicts.