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Replace the T3200M with a new router but keep wired optikTv working
Hello, I am about to install a new router that I recently purchased to fix some issues I was having with my Telus T3200M router, but also to add features that were missing. After reading almo...
Firstly, kudos to you for doing the leg work instead of asking someone else to do it for you. I think you put yourself in a good position to make it work and keep it working.
Most routers will detect the WAN IP and adjust the LAN subnet so that it's different. The tricky part is knowing what it will use as plan B if it can't use the normal default. The router manual should indicate what the default is. If it happens to collide with the T3200M then you need to change it to another private range like 192.168.0.* before you connect it to the T3200M.
The router mode setting (router, access point it switch) is not directly related to the LAN subnet setting. It might be that some routers switch modes if it detects a WAN IP that collides rather than switching to a different LAN subnet.
Just get another switch for the Optik boxes. They're cheap enough. Connect the Optik switch and other router to separate ports on the T3200M and your LAN switch to the other router. That's how mine is set up.
That's what I thought at first, but the problem is that routers are and will be quite far from television and there's only one Ethernet cable that's already getting close to television.
Passing another cable would be impossible without piercing the floot behind the TV and running a very long Ethernet cable.
Ultimately, I understand that there is no known way to keep all the features of a router for router 2 and to connect the OptikTv to this new router?
