Re: Connecting to different IP address ranges on home network

On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 19:07:41 +0200, Marco Moock
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Am Sat, 30 Oct 2021 17:53:37 +0100
>schrieb Peter Johnson <[email protected]>:
>
>> The address range on my network is 192,168.2.2-192.168.2.254, gateway
>> 192.168.2.1, subnet 255.255.255.0.
>> I have just purchased a pair of HDMI extenders (TX/RX) that I have
>> discovered are hard-coded to 192.168.0.0 addresses. 
>> Is it possible to these devices to communicate to each other over my
>> network? At the present they are not.
>> Googling suggests that the answer might reside in changing the subnet
>> but I get lost as soon as they start attempting to explain binary
>> numbers and I haven't found any practical examples. 
>> Many thanks for any help/advice.
>
>These are 2 different networks and you need routing between them. You
>need a professional router to do this, most home routers are crap and
>aren't capable of running such a task.
Thanks foryour guidance. At what point does a router become capable?

>In my opinion, these HDMI extenders are also crap and should be
>forbidden, best thing is to get rid of them and buying some that
>support IPv4 and IPv6 where you can set your address manually.
>
Do configuarable extenders exist? I have a pair that do work, by
adapting to my network by some means, they are not configurable, and
they don't have the facilities of the new ones.  


>If only the extenders need to communicate to each other, it is easier,
>they don't need to care about your subnet, you just need to tell them
>the IP address of each other.

Can't do that, can I? As I said the IP address is hard coded.

Looks as though I'll be sticking with the old ones and sending the new
ones back.