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Hi, can someone shed some light on this: I have a Linksys EA9500 Max-Stream™ AC5400 MU-MIMO Gigabit WiFi Router which I would like to use instead of the Telus Actiontec T3200M Gateway in my home...
If the Linksys router has multicast ability, then you do not need the T3200M.
Another option is to put a switch between the ONT, and it the T3200M and Linksys in parallel, using the T3200M for TV, and the Linksys for the rest of your network.
Hi guys, thank you for your responses.
So I tried the following:
Nokia ONT (Fibre Modem) -> Linksys Router -> Moca Adapter > and all seems to be working fine. All my TELUS 4K boxes are connected via the moca Ethernet over coax adapters work fine. I took the Actiontec T3200M Gateway/Router out of the equation and put it aside. I disabled the multicast filtering option on the Linksys Router.
So I tried the following:
Nokia ONT (Fibre Modem) -> Linksys Router -> Moca Adapter > and all seems to be working fine. All my TELUS 4K boxes are connected via the moca Ethernet over coax adapters work fine. I took the Actiontec T3200M Gateway/Router out of the equation and put it aside. I disabled the multicast filtering option on the Linksys Router.
When I got fibre installed they used an SFP ONT into the T3200M not the dedicated box. However whent he 3200 is in bridge mode only port 1 is bridged through and the other 3 ports and the MOCA port work like normal with the 192.168.1.0/24 network.
So the suggestion by someone else above would work with
ONT -> Switch -> Linksys
Switch -> T3200M Port 1-4 and/or MOCA -> STB
Or you could also go like this with T3200M in bridge mode (This is how mine is setup)
ONT -> T3200M Port 1 Bridged -> Linksys
T3200M Port 2-4 and/or MOCA -> STB
