LAN traffic not working
I am an aspiring prosumer and am trying to learn the ins and outs of networking as I'm going along, so please be kind. That said, prior to switching to my Gold SE in router mode, and an AP7 ceiling unit, I had no problems with my devices speaking to each other, now I am constantly running into trouble with local connectivity.
I frequently am unable to airplay from my iphone to my homepod minis. Sometimes the homepod minis show up, most of the time they don't. I had one Macbook Air that would wirelessly backup to another Mac desktop for Time Machine purposes. Now, the laptop can no longer see the shared folder on my desktop. My Macs can no longer find my printer to print wirelessly.
I try to ping my various computers and devices and 90% of the time I get timeout error messages.
Things that I have tried so far:
Everything is on the same SSID
Everything is on the same subnet
I have not set up any VLANs nor turned on VqLan
mDNS Relay and SSDP relay are turned on
I have devices set to their respective users, but have not implemented any rules about limiting traffic between users.
I've turned off ad block, advanced threat filtering, region blocking, content filtering, device active protect, Unbound, NTP intercept, I'm not using a VPN...
Ultimately, I reset my Gold SE to factory settings, and then re-created my SSID and did nothing else apart from re-add my devices. And all the above problems persisted. Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere that is preventing reliable LAN traffic?
I really want this to work, but if anyone has any bright ideas, and would be so kind as to speak in laymans terms, I'd appreciate it.
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As a quick test, turn on Emergency Access/Turn off Monitoring for both devices in a pair that can't see each other (for example your iPhone and a HomePod mini), then try AirPlay again. This temporarily pauses Firewalla's blocking and protection features for those devices, so it tells us whether Firewalla is involved. You can revert the change after test: What to do when can't access certain website?
If it still doesn't work, it would help to know:
- How everything is connected, e.g. modem → Gold SE → AP7, and whether any switch or other router is in between
- Which devices are wired and which are on Wi-Fi -
Turning on emergency access, in this case between my iphone and a couple of my homepod minis, did not work.
I have verizon fios. So from the ONT, my gold SE is connected. From there on one port I have an unmanaged switch that a couple of IOT hubs are connected to. And on another port, I've connected my AP 7 ceiling unit. In this instance, the iphones, laptops/desktops, printer, and homepod minis, are all connected wirelessly to the AP7.
Things I've noticed. The printer will not show up in the list of discoverable printers at first, but I can manually connect to it by it's IP address.
When I reboot the Gold SE, I temporarily see my homepod minis as Airplay targets, but this goes away within 10-30 minutes.
If those clues are helpful, please let me know what else I can do! Thanks for the help!
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