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Chrish1969
3 years agoNeighbour
Optik Tv and Google Nest Wifi Pro
Hi there I've been on Telus fibre for a while and also Telus Optik TV. The telus supplied modem and router are generally OK but we get fairly poor wifi coverage. I installed 2 Telus wifi boosters an...
Chrish1969
3 years agoNeighbour
So i have the following modem connected to the incoming fibre.
Prevoously I had the wifi hub
attached to that. The wifi hub was then connected to a switch. From the switch we have 6 LAN cables heading into my wall. At least 3 of them go to the TV and 2 of them were connected to Telus wifi boosters.
I switched out the Wifi hub and replaced with the Google mesh...which messed up the TV but gave me great wifi.
I'm considering a splitter from the modem. One to the telus wifi hub and then onto the TV's and the other to the Google mesh
Nighthawk
Community Power User
3 years agoThe first picture is an ONT. Normally you would either have the ONT + a T3200M, or the Wifi Hub, but not both. The Wifi Hub has no WAN port on it so the fibre would be directly inserted into it. Did you have a Telus installer come out and remove the Wifi Hub and install the ONT in its place? If no, then you had a Telus router there before. Did your IT guy possibly remove the T3200M? Do you still have the device that was connected previously? Can you post a photo of it?
Are you perhaps confusing the Wifi Hub with one of the Telus wifi Boost units? They're not routers but wireless access points. They usually connect to a Telus T3200M, Wifi Hub, or the NH20A.
You also do not want to put a switch directly to the ONT as you are only alotted 2 IP addresses for the connection. Anything connected to the ONT has a public IP and is directly connected to the internet. If you have things connected wrong, you could expose your entire home network to the internet.