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Apple Airport - hook to telus modem or the box on the wall?
Hi I recently had telus upgrade my tv service to Optik. They put in a new telus router too. Before this I was using just my apple airport/time machine and an apple express - not telus at all. The in...
Sure, you can do that, but expect your Optik services to fail, as they need multicast services, which are not likely to be available through the Apple routers.
Only one port is active on the ONT, so you can’t connect multiple routers to it. You can try placing a switch between the ONT and your routers, but you will then have 2 networks, one for the Telus Router, and one for the Apple router. Depending on how you want to use your network, this may cause issues.
All your internet traffic has to start from the Telus router. If you want to extend the distance, you’ll have to run an Ethernet cable from the Telus modem (black rectangle or tall white cylinder) to wherever you put your time capsule. The white square box is a decoder for your fibre optic signal and needs to feed directly into the Telus modem.
- Before I got Optik the Apple router was connected directly to the “box” that the fibre cable goes into. I didn’t use a Telus router. The box has multiple ports.
Can I hook the Apple router directly to the box? Would this be any different than hooking it to the Telus router?
Thanks- NFtoBC
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Sure, you can do that, but expect your Optik services to fail, as they need multicast services, which are not likely to be available through the Apple routers.
Only one port is active on the ONT, so you can’t connect multiple routers to it. You can try placing a switch between the ONT and your routers, but you will then have 2 networks, one for the Telus Router, and one for the Apple router. Depending on how you want to use your network, this may cause issues.
- Thanks. Knowing that only the one port on the ONT is active is exactly what I wanted to know.
- Also, your Optik TV can only run off another router through a word collection (i.e., it acts like a hub). I don’t believe it can run off a separate network. You’re almost better off turning off Wi-Fi on the time capsule and using it as network attached storage. That’s what I did for my parents.
