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Bridging customer owned routers to Telus router/equipment
With reference to this old thread from the Telus com forum: https://forum.telus.com/t5/Home/Bridge-Mode-Using-Your-Own-Router/ta-p/52181#:~:text=What%20Is%20Bridge%20Mode%3F,party%20router%20in%...
But does the NH20A have 2.5G LAN I/O? I don't think it does. In a modem AP config you connect the modem LAN to the AP's WAN? But I was always under the impression that you connected a gateway device to a AP via LAN to LAN. due to the fact that a gateway like the T3200M is a modem and a router, so router to router via LAN-LAN. That's the way I have my AX11000 connected to the T3200 at this moment, in AP mode and all seems well. I always had my WRT32X connected in AP mode to the T3200M, that way also.
Nighthawk
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Community Power UserWAN is the connection from the T3200 out to the ONT. WLAN is Wireless Local Area Network, a.k.a. Wi-Fi. That comes from the T3200M. All the ONT does is convert fiber to copper and it only has gigabit ethernet ports on it so running anything faster to it (2.5G, 10G) would be a waste. Only ONE connection on the ONT is active. There is no way to get others active. You would need a switch. (Nokia G-240G-A spec sheet) The Nokia ONT is capable of a line rate of 2.5gbps coming into it, but the ethernet ports on it are only gigabit. Anyone with a fibre connection faster than 1Gbps would usually have a different ONT.
Keep in mind any device connected to the ONT directly through a switch, is a separate physical network. Home connections only allow for 2 WAN IP addresses so choose which two devices you want to work on that switch.
Again, do NOT clone any MAC addresses. It will cause endless problems for you. No matter what you do they cannot share the same network, gateway or WAN if you try connect them to the ONT through a switch. If you are set on using the pair of AX11000s, only ONE should be connected to the ONT. The second should be connected to the first. While the AX11000 doesn't have the specific ability to act as a wireless access point or extender, it may be possible to connect the two and share the same network and possibly the same wireless SSIDs. You would have to consult with TP Link on how to do that.
"WAN is the connection from the T3200 out to the ONT. WLAN is Wireless Local Area Network, a.k.a. Wi-Fi." Understood.
"All the ONT does is convert fiber to copper and it only has gigabit ethernet ports on it so running anything faster to it (2.5G, 10G) would be a waste. Only ONE connection on the ONT is active."
So that's for sure, only one 1G eth port is active? And they are all 1G. Forget what the Telus Tech said. Got it.
So what I really need is, to be future proofed for 2.5G service, is a fiber connection straight to an ONT that has a 10G eth I/O, connect that to a 10G multi port switch, it could be as small as a 5 port I/O 10G switch. Then have two separate routed networks with WLAN Wi-Fi 6 and 2.5G LAN connections.
"Home connections only allow for 2 WAN IP addresses"
So you're saying Telus gives each customer "TWO" WAN IPs? for a single domestic service account? OR do you have to pay extra for this double WAN IP config?
- NFtoBC
“So you're saying Telus gives each customer "TWO" WAN IPs? for a single domestic service account?”
Yes.
