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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.
"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?
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Community Power User“So you're saying Telus gives each customer "TWO" WAN IPs? for a single domestic service account?”
Yes.
