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Hey everyone, I have had an idea brewing for a bit now on how to fix the Wi-Fi upstairs. Long story short, we have a pretty big house that's been finished already. The previous owners only wired ...
I ended up just replacing the T3200M entirely with the R7000 instead. Wi-Fi speeds upstairs are improved in the dead-spots before, but still could be alot better. I'll probably end up using the mesh network like you mentioned. Either that or do a couple cable drops in the house to improve the connection upstairs.
Either way thanks to everyone for your guys input, it definitely helped push me in the right direction!
Cheers.
I don't think this will work:
ONT --> Switch --> WAN on T3200
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+------> WAN on R7000
TELUS DHCP server will only provide 1 IP address via the ONT so the first router to make the DHCP request will get one and the second request will be ignored while the first one is still active.
NFtoBC
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Community Power UserI understood, but have not tested, that Telus provides 2 IP addresses to residential customers. If so, the ONT > Switch > 2 Routers should work.
How did your setup go? ONT directly to the R7000? Or ONT to switch to R7000?
I have IGMP proxying enabled which allows Optik to work perfectly. I'll look into alternative firmware though if I run into any problems in the future.
Check your Optik service to make sure it's still working properly with the R7000. It needs multicast turned on.
I have a R7000 sitting on the shelf. It was decommissioned because the Netgear firmware was terrible. If you are running an alternative firmware like Merlin then it should be better.
I ended up just replacing the T3200M entirely with the R7000 instead. Wi-Fi speeds upstairs are improved in the dead-spots before, but still could be alot better. I'll probably end up using the mesh network like you mentioned. Either that or do a couple cable drops in the house to improve the connection upstairs.
Either way thanks to everyone for your guys input, it definitely helped push me in the right direction!
Cheers.
You are correct, that would give you separate networks which I'm guessing you don't want.
If your goal is to increase WiFi coverage then go with what Nighthawk recommended in a previous post and configure the R700 for Access Point mode. That will give you 1 network with 2 separate SSID's.
ONT Port 1 -- WAN of T3200M --- LAN4 connected to WAN on R7000
A better alternative is to use the TELUS Boost WiFi instead of the R7000 in the above configuration which will give you a mesh network with 1 SSID.
https://www.telus.com/en/ab/mobility/accessories/product/telus-boost-wi-fi-starter-pack
I'll give that setup a shot. From my understanding, wouldn't this make two separate networks in the house since I'm connecting to WAN on both devices?
If I wanted to mesh the Wi-Fi networks by setting the same SSIDs and passwords would this cause a conflict or no? I just don't want everyone upstairs to have to log off and jump into a different network when they are in the basement for example.
NFtoBC I was not aware of that TELUS provides 2 IP addresses. Is it documented anywhere on the TELUS site? It must be for fiber customers only. Unfortunately fiber isn't available in my area so I have no way of testing it myself.
Even if the R7000 and T3200M were able to get IP addresses from the DHCP server it won't allow LAN communication between the 2 routers. This may or may not be important depending on what devices are on each. If it's just Optik boxes on the T3200M then it should be okay.
ONT --> Switch --> WAN on T3200 | +------> WAN on R7000
