How do we change the IP Address of access points

Hi.  When I try to connect to my phone through an access point, the camera gives me an address that is masked out and I can't use it.

Is there a way to change its IP Address to accommodate all home networks?  If so how?

Many thanks for your help!

Ernie Adsett (Ernie@Adsett.ca)

ErnieAd wrote:

Hi. When I try to connect to my phone through an access point, the camera gives me an address that is masked out and I can't use it.

Is there a way to change its IP Address to accommodate all home networks? If so how?

Many thanks for your help!

Ernie Adsett (Ernie@Adsett.ca)

Your subject line asks how to change the IP address of a WiFi access point (AP, a network device) but your message asks about the IP address of the camera. I assume you mean camera, as most of us don't have APs at home. At any rate, once your camera attaches to WiFi, it will be assigned a compatible IP address by the DHCP server on the network (typically your router at home).

What make / model is your camera? I think the answer is the same: No (as far as I've seen), but maybe higher-end cameras might allow it.

So to speak, you can connect two devices by using the same AP (3rd device) and connect both to it’s SSID or you can create AP from the one it is capable and connect to it directly.

Fo example you can make the AP from the camera and connect the phone to its SSID.
In both cases it is necessary to use DHCP address, using static IP of the client is unlikely complicated. 
Further, some SSID’s can be “sticky” , try to switch off  the automatic connection to it.

Unintended SSID connection is probably the reason for different 3d octet in your IP’s.

Anybody with a home wifi connection has at least one AP at home, btw.

ErnieAd wrote:

Hi Len,

I'm retired as well so it's given me time to "get into trouble" with my camera.

It's a Canon SL2 200D. The camera can introduce a static SSID to the router but it designates an address which ends with "1.??". My network is a subnet of "0.??".

I've found that it sometimes connects to one of my wifi existing SSIDs but it's not consistent

I think I just need to learn more about subnets.

It's just that the camera won't always connect to the existing SSIDs so I saw that it can create its own SSID within the router. But with the designated static address it does not connect.

Anyway, not a big deal. I just wish the WiFi would always connect.

Thanks for your help Len.

Ernie Adsett

To clarify the situation.

Router is a device which usually provides an AP (wifI Access Point) , SSID is the name for one of it’s wifi connections.

camera can act as a client and connect to AP via SSID offered by the router and obtain the dynamic IP from it’s DHCP server which is in the same subnet as all the devices connected to that SSID.
Camera doesn’t introduce anything to the router, but it’s MAC addres (forget it)

If you don’t want to connect both devices via the common AP (router, in your words) and particular SSID on it , you can connect both devices directly, when they are capable of it. One makes and AP and publishes it’s SSID . Accordingly, it offers it’s own IP range/subnet via it’s own DHCP server. The other one joins as a client using that SSID.