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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.
Where are you planning to put the second router? Do you have any Ethernet devices you need to connect to the other router?
I was thinking of leaving the 2 routers in the same place and having only the OptikTv on the T3200M.
Another way of looking at it would be that the new router would have had everything that was previously on the T3200M, except the OptikTv.
The problem is that behind the TV, I only have one Ethernet socket and I would have needed 2. One coming from the T3200M and going directly to the OptikTv box and another going to my Switch which provides wired internet to my Android box, game consoles, smart TV, etc.
This afternoon, I had the crazy idea of testing my new router alone to see the result on the TV.
To my surprise, the OptikTv box got internet very quickly, but each channel only worked for 10 to 15 seconds before displaying a connection problem message.
Another crazy idea, instead of plugging the T3200M into the internet and then plugging my new router in, I did the opposite. I left the new router as the first router and plugged the T3200M into one of the ports.
With this setup, I plugged only one thing into the T3200M and that was the OptikTv. I was hoping that the "magic" that makes the OptikTv work would happen even when the T3200M is not directly connected to the internet, but it was the same result as previously on the new router: 10 to 15 seconds of streaming and then a connection error message.
I don't know if I should have changed settings elsewhere in one of the routers to make it work better.
Do you see any sense in this?
For now, I just put everything back to normal and I removed the new router. I will do more tests tonight including the initial plan (ont to t3200m and 2 cables one for the optikTv and one for the new router. (The plan where I might need to drill a hole in my floor...)
Waiting for any advice you might have.
Thx again
