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Switch and Router Connected Directly to ONT
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.
Nighthawk
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Community Power UserYou cannot connect LAN ports to each other between routers. It will mess things up. If you have the R7000 first, the Optik TV boxes are not likely to work.
Recommended setup:
ONT Port 1 -- WAN of T3200M --- LAN4 connected to WAN on R7000
If the R7000 has an IP of 192.168.1.1, that will definitely cause an IP conflict. The T3200M uses the same subnet (192.168.1.x). You are better off putting the R7000 behind the T3200M and change the subnet on it to something different like 192.168.10.x. so it won't conflict. You may have to disconnect it from the T3200M in order to reconfigure it.
The only other thing you could do is:
ONT --> Switch --> WAN on T3200
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+------> WAN on R7000
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
I understood, but have not tested, that Telus provides 2 IP addresses to residential customers. If so, the ONT > Switch > 2 Routers should work.
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 R7000I'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.
