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PureFibre Modem - Networking
When the PureFibre Modem is installed by the technician is only one of the LAN ports activated? I have my own internal Ethernet network and would like to use more than one port on the modem to limit the switches
- Was hoping that plugging directly into another of the LAN ports would keep speed up above 900mbOk, I need some clarification here please. If you are indicating that your Wi-Fi speed connection is showing at 100Mbps on a wireless link, this would not be out of the realm of possibilities depending on what protocol it is connecting at.Most Wi-Fi connection speed will be much slower that a hardwired ethernet connection to say a desktop/laptop computer.If you are indicating that a wired connection to a desktop/laptop is down around 100mbps speed, then my assumption would be that device has a 10/100 Network interface in the device, and not a 10/100/1,000 or 1Gbps network interface.If you find this post useful, please give the author a "Solution", or mark as "Kudo", if it solves your problem, thank you very much.
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Yelxop Wrote: When the PureFibre Modem is installed by the technician is only one of the LAN ports activated?
On an initial install all the ports are active. Only if you choose to have the modem placed in bridged mode would some of the ports be deactivated. This would be utilized if you had your own aftermarket router/firewall and wanted to control the activates on your network without utilizing the Telus equipment.
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- Ok that is very helpful. I am utilizing my own Google Mesh WiFi Network so if I understand properly then only one port will be active on the Telus router since it is in bridge mode? Does that mean that i can't also run a hardwired network alongside my Google WiFi using the other ports on the router?
Yelxop Wrote;
Does that mean that i can't also run a hardwired network alongside my Google WiFi using the other ports on the router?If you were to utilize only the Telus equipment, then as you say in bridge mode then only port 1 LAN would be active. However, your could utilize an aftermarket router/firewall connected to that bridged port and have the aftermarket device act a a router/firewall and a switch if that device had multiple LAN port on it... As well you could add an additional switch to one of the LAN ports to expand your capability.I'm just not sure what your trying to accomplish here? from what I can see, if you just had the Telus router/firewall set as normal, there is nothing stopping you from utilizing any of the LAN ports to connect anything wired that you would like. i.e. LAN port 1 could go to a computer for example, LAN port 2 could go to a switch for expansion , LAN port 3 could go to your Google Wi-Fi device etc..If you find this post useful, please give the author a "Solution", or mark as "Kudo", if it solves your problem, thank you very much.
