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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.
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Community Power UserI just attached my Time Capsules to the Telus router, and turned off the router aspects of those devices. They still happily work as Time Machine clients, but the Telus router acts as the network hub. The rest of my network, including TV operates from the Telus router.
